06-25-2014, 03:53 AM
You may be suffering from post-agricultural society guilt. It's a luxury of "service" economies -- economies where most people are employed serving chickens to others.
If you shot this rooster, he would not be the first to die. I watched my mother wring the necks of chickens in our backyard, and then serve them for dinner. She showed me how to do it. There is a technique. A simple, but grisly technique. There is some squawking but it is all over very quickly. Or you can chop their heads off. But then they run around all over the place in a ghastly way, like some older gentleman who have lost their minds, but still keep runnin' around as if they were spring chickens.
Still, it would be nice to err on the side of compassion and relocate him until we can find an appropriate island-wide policy on roosters.
I hope you will support me in urging legislation that allows only ONE rooster on each of the Hawaiian Islands . That rooster would be kept in a cage in a strip mall on the main drag in Kona. We would charge people to see him. We would only remove him when more chickens are needed. All other roosters would be executed summarily. And if we still have bullets, we would shoot a few Axis deer. You can't just wring their necks.
If you shot this rooster, he would not be the first to die. I watched my mother wring the necks of chickens in our backyard, and then serve them for dinner. She showed me how to do it. There is a technique. A simple, but grisly technique. There is some squawking but it is all over very quickly. Or you can chop their heads off. But then they run around all over the place in a ghastly way, like some older gentleman who have lost their minds, but still keep runnin' around as if they were spring chickens.
Still, it would be nice to err on the side of compassion and relocate him until we can find an appropriate island-wide policy on roosters.
I hope you will support me in urging legislation that allows only ONE rooster on each of the Hawaiian Islands . That rooster would be kept in a cage in a strip mall on the main drag in Kona. We would charge people to see him. We would only remove him when more chickens are needed. All other roosters would be executed summarily. And if we still have bullets, we would shoot a few Axis deer. You can't just wring their necks.