Well, We knew Col. Brunswick was a boy, but as it turns out we had FOUR boys and you can't have 4 roosters, forget the crowing, they will kill each other. It was pretty awful, 5 chickens, 4 roosters:
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They were gorgeous! I had a plan for butchering, but when the second rooster started to crow, my plan fell apart as my teachers had a house to settle on and I could not wait 2 weeks because roosters do not crow at sunrise, they start at about 2 am and just let one loose whenever they feel the urge - which can be pretty constant. We put it off to be sure all 4 were indeed roosters and one morning the week after Thanksgiving at about 5:30 in the morning, we butchered them. It was very hard and very awful and very empowering all at the same time. The hens seemed relieved.
Oh, they are so beautiful!!!!
ReplyDeleteI know, the whole male plumage thing, they were absolutely gorgeous. Really hard to let them go!
ReplyDeleteHow sick can you be that butchering an animal is empowering? I get it, you couldn't keep them and you had to kill them, so I understand why it happened. But it was an empowering experience? You get some sick rush from killing a live animal?
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