Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lilion]

That is interesting that it is against the law - where many, many other animals are routinely castrated. Granted, most of the other animals have external testicles. But, castrating a slightly older bull is not a nice procedure!. (It they are too old for the elastrator, the vet literally crushes the 'tubes'. Or at least they did when I was a kid and we bought a 6 month old male 'calf'.

And how often are dogs and cats 'taken care of' in a not dissimilar fashion (though, under anesthesia and by a vet.)

I can't be sure, but I read it is illegal in the UK at least. I was mistaken as to how many places. Seems rather more brutal, reading about it. I've seen young pigs castrated and helped band calves as a kid. I don't really know why chickens would be treated differently.

Apparently there's a chemical option. But then you deal with chemicals in the bird you're eating.

 

[Ponypoor]

My neighbor eats 2 dozen jumbo eggs a week - just himself - plus whatever his wife eats. Unfortunately, he doesn't like/want duck eggs, and only eats jumbo eggs during the week, so he doesn't buy any of mine - he buys the poor commercial farm hens' white jumbo eggs. He hard boils them and eats them for breakfast 'on the run' driving to work. ( 3 a morning), and then eats scrambled or overeasy on weekend. Those can be anything (well, size wise.) He saves his jumbo cartons for us, we use them for the duck eggs.

We bring him a dozen of our chicken eggs when he says he has a stack of cartons for us. He and his wife eat them on the weekends...but gosh, god forbid you have to peal 4 or 5 hardboiled eggs instead of 3 for breakfast.

Yes seriously!

I love my silkie eggs one fits splendidly on half a slice of my huge home mead bread - oh those lovely golden yolks

 

[Skyewatcher]

Baby pigs are neutered without any anesthesia, they quite literally have their pompoms cut out of them.

Goats amd calves also - ever hear of mountain oysters? (Goat gonads), or Prairies oysters? ( calf gonads)
Apparently quite good BBQ’ed.

When I lived at home in Colorado- while listening to the evening news the anchor brought up Rocky Mountain oysters, ( I don't remember the news story behind that but....) then he said " thems are bulls balls" the anchor got moved to the noon news hour...

 

[rural mouse]

I am not sure about the no need to be careful because they will be dinner anyway.
It is a lot of trouble to go to just to have the bird die of infection a few days later.
My understanding is that capon meat was quite prized so presumably commanded a higher price.

They also grew to young turkey sized. A young chicken weighing 20lbs would be worth more even at the same meat price. No idea if the flavor changes or not, but that's a lot of chicken.

 

[Lilion]

When I lived at home in Colorado- while listening to the evening news the anchor brought up Rocky Mountain oysters, ( I don't remember the news story behind that but....) then he said " thems are bulls balls" the anchor got moved to the noon news hour...

There's a town near where I grew up that has a whole event centered on "oysters". The Olean Testical Festival.

 

[GregnLety]

Hey Greg, she used to say that about me, but, somehow, someone or something came along and changed that. I’m still devastated!

We're both gems Alex

 

[featherhead007]

Baby pigs are neutered without any anesthesia, they quite literally have their pompoms cut out of them.

Goats amd calves also - ever hear of mountain oysters? (Goat gonads), or Prairies oysters? ( calf gonads)
Apparently quite good BBQ’ed.

You can pretend that they are Chinese food. Easy to pick up with chop sticks!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

See @Desertvalleychickens , I told you!

 

[rural mouse]

You can pretend that they are Chinese food. Easy to pick up with chop sticks!

 

[featherhead007]

There's a town near where I grew up that has a whole event centered on "oysters". The Olean Testical Festival.

I don’t believe in UFO’s Or any extratesticlles!