Excess Roosters

My brother Wayne collecting the morning's eggs.  Just get some chickens, keep them well fed and contained in a run, and leave 1 laying box for every 7 or so chickens, and Voila`!  Eggs Benedict, fried or scrambled, and quiche for "girlie men"...

Dropping roosters off at the local food kitchen.  Poor folks do not look gift roosters in the mouth nor do they practice vegetarianism.

My son Will bringing a rooster to the chopping block.  The butchering table is the right, and the meat container is at his feat.

If you breed chickens to lay eggs for you, you are going to have many, many, many roosters running around. Either you eat them, sell them so that someone else can eat them, or they will kill your chickens (by accident) and eat them (chickens and roosters ARE cannibals), not to mention poop all over your barn. 

Simple Like That.

Ever hear of the french dish Le Coq au Vin?  (literally old rooster cooked in wine.)  

(Here is a little fun fact to know.  IF you eat commercial chicken you are actually eating rooster.  Commercial poultry houses destroy the female chicks at birth (except those they need to lay eggs) because they do not gain weight fast enough.  It is tough being  chicken.)

Cleaning fresh poultry at home is about the same amount of effort as cleaning a fish.  Fish require filleting and chickens must be plucked.  Plucking is easy. 

On "harvest day" we catch the roosters to be processed the night before.  No food or water for 18 hours or so we slaughter them by decapitation.  To make the plucking job easy we dip the bird in 160 degree water for 30 to 45 seconds, after which the feathers come out easily in handfuls.  Then we gut them, same as a fish.  There is an extra step of removing the neck and gizzard.  It is easy to cut yourself badly, so be careful.

Roosters should be slaughtered at 16 weeks if you are after a roaster or fryer.  Older birds are suitable for stews, soups, and any dish that requires that the meat not fall apart.

Free range poultry and eggs taste like the stuff you get from the store, but with much more power and flavor.

One simply cannot feed oneself out of a garden.  The most efficient means of gaining nourishment is to eat animals and animal products.  Think about the average American breakfast.  Eggs, (animal) bacon, (animal), toast (plant, wheat), butter (animal), coffee (plant) with milk (animal) and sugar (plant).  Eggs, meat, and milk comes from animals.

G!