Got Flogged by A rooster tonight

[M.sue]

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Totally Agree on that!!

As for hanging my Roo upside down I haven't had to resort to that...yet! I'm still stalking mine when ever possible. It's taking a little longer then suggested to me just for the fact I work and can't be out in the pen all the time. But I think it's working!!

 

[BusyBlonde]

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[BooBear]

Yal will probably poke fun, but, I do have a few foo foo Silkies and the majority of my birds have names. However, I am trying to break myself from naming the boys as they end up at dinner.
I got one black cockeral we been calling Soon To Be (dinner that is).

Now you old timers may want to hold yer ears for this one: I hug my Silkies!

Infact, Cinnimon my Silkie roo gets cranky if I don't hug him n give him attention daily. Yeah Silkies just roll that way.

 

[Beekissed]

I have no problem with Silkies....my hens say they make the best TP!

I'd hug a foofoo chicken here but I'd get chicken poo on me...and then I'd have to hand her right back to the flock for their butt wipin' needs.

Nothing wrong in naming a chicken...I've named a few that distinguish themselves among their flockmates. Roos, of course, always have a name because they are so few. Hens that hang around with me I will name or hens with distinctive physical characteristics or a singular breed.

The trouble comes with claiming you can't kill and eat something that you've named. What exactly does a name have to do with the taste of a chicken, I wonder?

 

[BooBear]

It took me a while to where I could kill the chicken myself. I never had issue with the plucking & processing part.

I think it is how each person views the bird. If you view him as a pet then it makes it hard to process him; however, if you view him as dinner then it is not to hard to do.

Yep, I been waiting for Soon To Be to fill out a bit more as he is a slow maturer. He has nice feeling drumsticks now and he is packing on some meat. It is time to set up my processing equipment.

 

[oshun55555]

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[Beekissed]

I guess I'm missing that particular sensitivity chip in my processor...I can name a bird, make it a pet, treat it special....and still process it without a moment's qualms. I guess that comes from having killed so, so many animals for food and starting at the young age of 10. My other sisters wouldn't help because they "just couldn't" and my mother would have to do it alone if I hadn't helped....so I helped.

I wasn't any less sensitive than my siblings, I just had more compassion for my mother than I did for some feather dusters. I still cry at nearly every movie, book or song and I am a sucker for the underdog.

I took an easy route this last winter when it came time to kill the wether lamb and had my boys do it...but if they hadn't, I'd have still done it. When you have a sad or dirty job to do, it's just best to pull up your big girl panties, grit your teeth and get 'er done. Meat taste like meat after it's been cooked, not a bit like pets.

 

[oshun55555]

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I got 3 out of 30 hens named, and like you they are in some way special, big and meaty, lay early and good, most of them look alike to me, as for eating something i have named, its eaiser if you just change the name to "meat" then killing them is no problem. Anyone ever eat a silkie i hear they got black meat?

 

[oshun55555]

When those old gals that I named get tired and stop laying, they get to rest on a nice bed of dumplings.

 

[al6517]

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