Granny's gone and done it again

[Debbie292d]

One may or may not wish to read this.

https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/capons-unfairly-forgotten-piece-agriculture-somewhat-disturbing-luxury/#:~:text=To make a cockerel a,access to the body cavity.

I may not, no offense. We don't butcher to eat.

If one's got to go like a nasty mean rooster, one of us shoots it with the 20-gauge and we toss it down the bank into the forest, but a long ways from the coop.

Sounds like we're cold-hearted maybe, but you wouldn't want our satanic roosters. We've only had 3 in all these years.

 

[lovesfarms]

Good night. Yeah, it's getting to be that time ... hope this leg doesn't keep me up but it may. Just under the spider bites is a long red welt from poison ivy. Taking a Benadryl. Will pick up some cortisone cream tomorrow. It kinda burns.

I hope you have a good night. I will try not to dream of baby chicks being caponized. I never realized there was that much to it. It's got to be as painful as getting a hemorrhoid bandedd and all to appease the humans delicacy palate!
Good night and sweet dreams

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's good to know. I've just used the Benadryl gel or we have a few tubes of that hydrocortisone anti-itch cream.

I may not, no offense. We don't butcher to eat.

No offense at all. That's why I put in the warning.

If one's got to go like a nasty mean rooster, one of us shoots it with the 20-gauge and we toss it down the bank into the forest, but a long ways from the coop.

Sounds like we're cold-hearted maybe, but you wouldn't want our satanic roosters. We've only had 3 in all these years.

Not at all, I've had my share of nasty roosters. We've dispatched them, then DH walks the carcass down to what we call, variously, the "Lower Forty," or the "Bone Yard," for nature to dispose of as she sees fit, and the rooster then enters into the Circle of Life where he can do some good to atone for his sins, lol. We used to use an axe and chopping block but have graduated to the broomstick method. Much easier and safer.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Good night and sweet dreams to you!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I forgot to say I'm out of the cortisone cream. Will get some tomorrow.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Gonna head that way too. G'night all!

 

[Nomadicus]

Do you eat the 'rooster eggs'?
It's an authentic question. Growing up, my cousin's ate the 'rooster eggs'.
When the question was posed to my mom she said NO. I had to wait till I grew up to learn what they are!

Never have and never will.

 

[Nomadicus]

It's not always baby chicks like day old right after hatching. The good guys put then out with anesthesia for their operation. I don't see a difference in this that eating a fine steak from a steer and classy restaurant. The real reason for doing this before Cornish Cross came along was to be able to process larger birds without them getting tough. I've had one to see what it was all about decades back and I can affirm they taste like chicken.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Apparently they did it on chicks three to six weeks old, and went through the rib cage. Without anesthesia. The organs are inside the body, so it's not the same as taking something off the outside like on mammals.

 

[Nomadicus]

Granny you've been off the air a long time. I hope all is well with you and yours.