old rooster stew...too old?

[malia]

Was wondering if my 7 month old rooster would be too old to even make a stew out of. Shoud I just cook and feed to the dogs. Yesteday I went out to gather the chickens that escaped from an open run door and he attacked me, very aggressively. I could not get him off. He continued to attack almost all the way to my back porch. I will not rehome an aggressive rooster and I won't kill him and waste his life. So I promised him dinner, or should I say would be dinner.

 

[greyfields]

Very eatable. Is that a word?

You can't make proper coq au vin unless the rooster is 1 year old. And I know people who regularly stew 3 year old birds for soup. They get vericose veins and look 'wrong', but theren't nothing harmful with eating them.

 

[dancingbear]

Quote:
It is now!

 

[crtrlovr]

I think "edible" is what you were going for ...

 

[silkiechicken]

Of course eatable is a word! I use it all the time even though they tell me that I shouldn't say eatable, more better, and close the lights.

No bird is too old to stew!

 

[francisfarms]

my word that I made up when I was with my ex boyfriend was "freshtables" fresh vegetables it is ok to make up words when we are looking for the appropriate one and it just does not come out

 

[malia]

Thank you all...this will be our first culling and dressing.

 

[greyfields]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2001/nov/25/foodanddrink.shopping