how to tell if a chicken is dead?

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[Mojo Chick'n]

When I read the title of the thread, I chuckled to myself, because I've been there... done that.

I had this nasty new hampshire red rooster who I stomped good on his neck, twisted, swung him around, he hung there, limp - dead.
I was sure his neck was broken - it was getting dark, and I didn't plan to eat him, so I put him down next to the barn so I could bury the carcass the next morning when I got done doing chores.

Next morning I walk out to do chores, and the body is not there - I figured a coon got it and dragged it off. I walk into the barn and there is that "dead" rooster, walking around trying to intimidate the cow - strutting just like nothing had ever happened to him. His crow was pretty messed up, but he was alive and kicking.

He didn't survive the second attempt at Offing him - I made sure the head was seperate from the body so no second chances.

So yes, I have seen Zombie Chickens

they walk, they are are out there --- beware!!!!

meri

 

[Cara]

My husband was killing some of the 10 free roosters the hatchery sent us (all RIRs which i've never kept!). He was wringing their necks, then put them all in a cooler to take to the house to skin. While he was driving, the cooler lid popped up and one of the roosters stuck its head out squawking

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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red roosters have this extra "psycho" gene, I think... it's why they are harder to kill.... like Jason or Freddy.....

 

[WriterofWords]

Maybe they mean in the egg?

 

[smom1976]

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I cant help but laugh at these stories..

it is like a scarey rated r friday the 13th movie.. LOL

 

[mhaines4102]

When I was a kid, we had a mean rooster that would chase us. So we hit it in the head with a board. We thought it was dead. Then, like Lazarus, it popped up and ran off. We thought that was FUNNY! Oh the fun we had with that rooster. Stalking it with a stick. I was about 7.

Then, something happened, it got really really mean! One day I was running from the rooster, it was on my shoulders pecking and flapping and I was screaming. I was scratched up, freaked out. Dad ended up shooting it. He said, "Huh, I wonder what got in to that rooster..." We said, "I don't know..." Then it was dead.

 

[lovemychix]

Mojo Chick'n :

When I read the title of the thread, I chuckled to myself, because I've been there... done that.

I had this nasty new hampshire red rooster who I stomped good on his neck, twisted, swung him around, he hung there, limp - dead.
I was sure his neck was broken - it was getting dark, and I didn't plan to eat him, so I put him down next to the barn so I could bury the carcass the next morning when I got done doing chores.

Next morning I walk out to do chores, and the body is not there - I figured a coon got it and dragged it off. I walk into the barn and there is that "dead" rooster, walking around trying to intimidate the cow - strutting just like nothing had ever happened to him. His crow was pretty messed up, but he was alive and kicking.

He didn't survive the second attempt at Offing him - I made sure the head was seperate from the body so no second chances.

So yes, I have seen Zombie Chickens

they walk, they are are out there --- beware!!!!

meri

 

[smom1976]

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hummm???

i wonder why it got mean..

 

[Beau coop]

Eeks! Night of the Living Dead - Roosters that is!