{"id":62,"date":"2012-01-16T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/i-despise-a-flogging-rooster\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:24:50","slug":"i-despise-a-flogging-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/i-despise-a-flogging-rooster.html","title":{"rendered":"I despise a flogging rooster&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/i-despise-a-flogging-rooster.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-RiQHLtgvmVk\/TxQz-MJrqKI\/AAAAAAAAAZA\/HZk5QvgUOss\/s320\/DSCN1568.JPG\" alt=\"rooster, mean rooster\" width=\"320\" height=\"226\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I despise a flogging rooster&#8230;&#8221; is one of my favorite quotes from the movie &#8220;Cold Mountain&#8221; and for good reason&#8230; I DO despise a floggin&#8217; rooster! If you&#8217;ve ever gone into the hen house to collect eggs and had a rooster come at you, flapping his wings and leading with his spurs&#8230; you know exactly what I mean!<\/p>\n<p>My experience has led me to keep a more mellow flock&#8230; rooster free if at all possible, however every once in a while a run of pullets will sneak in a rooster or two. I had a rooster last season and ended up with a broody hen and a small batch of chicks.. yep&#8230; one is a rooster who has recently started his two o&#8217;clock a.m. practice crowing. Three days in a row now I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of a three a.m. wake up call from this small boy. So, I get up this morning to see what people are doing with their roosters and find posts about &#8216;amazing tamales&#8217; or &#8216;chicken noodle soup&#8217;&#8230;. hmmmmm thinking soup is sounding pretty good on this rainy day.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do with your roosters when you have more than your place needs? Do you try to sell them? Do you butcher them out? I tend not to put the effort into butchering roosters because typically they are quite skinny chested birds&#8230; the hens have so much more meat on them, that is unless they are the meat birds and then gender doesn&#8217;t really matter. I&#8217;m thinking this young man will have a bit more time to figure out that crowing at two a.m. isn&#8217;t healthy and if that lesson isn&#8217;t learned&#8230; he&#8217;ll be fodder for the coyote&#8230; it&#8217;s a nice horse back ride out to state land!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Homesteading!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I despise a flogging rooster&#8230;&#8221; is one of my favorite quotes from the movie &#8220;Cold Mountain&#8221; and for good reason&#8230; I DO despise a floggin&#8217; rooster! If you&#8217;ve ever gone into the hen house to collect eggs and had a rooster come at you, flapping his wings and leading with his spurs&#8230; you know exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homesteading","category-poultry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}