December 2, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you have backyard chickens or or like, do you
have a chicken coop? I don't, though they do they do. Hey,
so the how long? How long have they had them?
A couple of years and everything's fine. It doesn't cause
any problems. Like everything is good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah for the most part. You know, the roosters can
get kind of annoying, but there we go. You know,
we have them dinner every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The uh no, that's good. Here's my question. So I'm
not I don't live in that world at all, right,
I don't. I don't have backyard chickens. My neighbors don't
have backyard chickens, Thank god. I don't have any that
are right right around me. When you're not supposed to
have roosters though, right, I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Don't really have an hoa or there's no neighborhood covenants,
so you pretty much do what you want. It was
the seventies development before all that became popular.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
But don't aren't there some? Aren't there some? And I
understand that like an hoa may say yes or no
about what you can and can't have, but aren't there
some areas or or like towns municipalities counties that forbid
you from keeping roosters.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's hens only, hens only. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Is that a Maryland law?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I know, it's not statewide. Frederick is pretty agricultural still
in that sense, so you can.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Have whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much farm farm animal type stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, for sure, I got you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Because there was a there was a story going around
yesterday that Maryland is facing a rooster epidemic, that a
rooster epidemic, that there there there's roosters surplus. Yeah, oh everywhere, everywhere,
and to the point where like I wouldn't I wouldn't
like in the rooster just a man chicken, male a
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male chicken. It's still man. Yeah, when it gets old
enough the Yeah, but you can't really do it, like
they're very aggressive animals. Yeah, So what do you if
you have one? What are you supposed to do with it?
Don't you just turn it in?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I mean the trick is to not have roosters
to begin with, that's the goal. But you know, you
get you buy kicks, and there are promise to be
all female, and that never turns out to be the case.
So all of a sudden, you have four roosters, most
people try and give them away or you have them
for dinner. I mean, that's that's about it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Can I can I ask another question? Let's say I
went and got a bunch of chicks. I'm being honest,
How would I know? How would I know if I
got a hen or a rooster? Hello? O? Their voices
usually okay, all right, very good, very good? Seriously, like
I know he's kidding, good, dude, will do Yeah, how
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would you? How would you know?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I'm sure people who deal in this space can tell
you that there's behavioral and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, but I've already got I've already got it home
at that point, that's too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Late at it when you're at the tractor supply.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The But that's what I'm saying. Would you know just
getting it what it is?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I bet there are tips and tricks?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Then why does so many people have roosters?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Because they probably didn't know these when everyone started backyard
farming during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So they didn't know what they were looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, they were newbies to the game.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And now there's now they there's roosters all over the place,
And if you have one, what are you supposed to
do with it?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I've heard eat them.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I bet in some places like Frederick, they are allowed.
They're also very loud, but they are not proact. It's committed, right. Yeah,
But if I live in Gaithersburg.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I don't know what the Montgomery County rule is.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I bet you can't have rooster.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Gaithersburg has farm lands. I'm sure in those spaces you
can have roosters.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, but you can't just if I lived in a
townhouse community, which by the way, I probably wouldn't have
backyard chickens. I can't just go drop them off on
somebody's farm.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay. Now you're talking about abandoning them.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, I don't know what to do, so I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Know if that's what you need to be doing. I
thought you meant like are you because you said the farm?
Are there? Are there rooster rescues?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh? Like like like like orphanages or like dog rescues orphanage.
But okay, if you take a dog to a dog rescue,
people adopt the dog. Nobody's adopting a rooster.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You don't know that who's adopting a rooster.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
I have people with farms. You want to annoy their neighbor.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Let me go to line too. Hi, Elliot in the morning. Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Hey Eric from Fairfax?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hey Eric from Fairfax?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
How are you okay?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Just trying to get through my shift?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Hey, I got you. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I'm a police officer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I hope it's a I hope it is a
quiet rest of your shift.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I hope they thank you for the appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You got it? Yes, And I hope I hope it
was a quiet night. Hey, you might know what do
you where? Do you live in fair Facts? I know
you're an officer in Fairfax.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I live in Fairfax.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
I'm actually an officer in DC.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh okay, Hey do you don't have any backyard chickens?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sir at all?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you know what the rules are in Fairfax?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I couldn't even tell you that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Do you know how to tell the difference if I
gave you a chick whether it is a hand or
a rooster? Yeah? No, I'm with you. Nobody would know.
Nobody would not.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
The internet you, No, it's it's it's their feathers that
you can differentiate between the females and the males.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
As a chick as a baby.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
They call it feather sexing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh what is the line from that movie? Oh take
a yass with a feather, Kristen, Will you find me
somebody who knows? And by the way, if everybody knew
these rules, there wouldn't be this epidemic. That's what they
call it. Rooster epidemic in Maryland and beyond, fueled by
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backyard coops.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That were purchased and set up during COVID that's.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
When it started.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But there you go. But people have through their research.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
They spent so much time researching the shot.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No, but people have started backyard chickens since the pandemic ended.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
But it was wild.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh people went crazy. Yeah, I agree, I agree, But
people still have them.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
But I just think those people knew better or continue
to know better because they're operating them. Half the people
that started during the pandemic have probably lost interest in
the hens.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Also, they're just not tending to it like they used.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
To, so they're just walking.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, they're just like eugh.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's like that puzzle in the dining room. I'm over that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Probably how Chesterfield's overrun with chickens?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Why do they have a bad also, remember all those
people started sending photos of the chickens along the road.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh that's right, yeah, oh those But weren't those turkeys?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I thought they were.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Weren't it? Weren't the like going back to talking about
wasn't it turkeys that were running around in Chesterfield and
everybody saw him?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, which, by the way, to me, same thing
as a rooster. I don't know the difference between. I
know roosters don't lay eggs. I know that that hens
do the and chick Is is it chicken hand or
his chicken rooster? Or is it just a baby of
either one?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
They think baby turkeys can be called chicks also, or
is there a proper name? You can call it a
chick or a poult? I never heard that word a
pulp e o U L t alt I made a polt?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Uh? Where am I going? Line three hill in the.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Morning, Good morning, Elliott. We're kind of we're done here.
We actually have a farm rescue when we rescue roosters.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Let me ask you this, how overrun with roosters are you?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
We have six pens. Each pen has a rooster with
some hens, but every one of them are rescue and
they're actually very friendly. They're not aggressive at all.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But isn't that the isn't that the rumor about? And
maybe at a rescue where there is like a lot
of hens that they can kind of get with, like
that makes sense, But in general in general, aren't they
said to be pretty aggressive like in somebody's backyard.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Make Kenny, there's no doubt. It's just we're very lucky
to have six roosters that aren't and two of them
have actually come from the Arlington Animal Rescue League because
they were abandoned, and yeah, we go pick them up
and bring them out to the farm. We've got forty
three rescue goats too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When you say abandoned or do people like who have
backyard roosters do they just kind of like leave the
gate open and just let them go.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Oh oh, they just dump them off. What happens is
you can't really when you get the chicks from Tractor Supply,
you cannot tell what they are till they get to
about sixteen weeks and overnight you're all of a sudden, hey,
this guy's got some tail feathers and there's you know,
being a little different.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And when you when you get them from like tractor
supply or something like that. At what age? What age
do you get like at sixteen weeks is when you
can if I can borrow a term from Diane, is
when I can feather sex them. What is sure? At
what age? At what age would I like go to
the store and get them?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
You're getting them at a couple weeks old. When you're
getting them from tractor supply. There's there's really no way
to tell, so.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You'd have no idea. So all these people come home
with chicks that they think are going to be hens,
but they turn out to be roosters.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Correct, and then they start crowing, and you know, out
out in the country you can have them. Obviously in
the city limits you can have your hens. And obviously
people need to get rid of a lot of roosters
after the pandemic. As you guys were.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Saying, So since you run a rescue and I mean,
I feel like and I listen, I think it's great
that you were able to get six, but I feel
like that is that's like spit in the ocean.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
You're one hundred percent right. There's for instance, like on Facebook,
the Western County loudon County Chicken Chat page. Everyone's trying to,
you know, rehome roosters daily.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And how would who would I'm being serious, who would
rehome a rooster other than a farm?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
No one?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, okay, so they're just kind of sitting out there,
all right, very good, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
I don't like that they're from Marlington Chicken Chat.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Remember my favorite del mar of a radio station, Sicken Country.
I'm pretty sure the personality there's name.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is so what do you but but nobody's answered my question.
What do you do with these things? Like? Do they
serve any purpose?
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, are they prohibited in most backyard settings? One because
they don't lay ex I understand that, but is it?
Is it all based on noise issues?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Noise? Here's what Here's what I said.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
They're not that aggressive.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
His Here's what I read is that that they're very noisy. Yeah,
like so imagine if you just oh my god, yeah,
like listen. I am thrilled that none of my neighbors
that I know of have chickens. I am thrilled with that.
I feel like that would be loud and obnoxious. But
the but to have roosters back there crowing, Oh my god,
(11:38):
all day and all night. I don't like sometimes we
have a like a catty corner neighbor that leaves their
dogs in their backyard all day. Yeah, and those things
bark like crazy. It's not the dog's fault, but that's annoying.
I'm trying to listen the and they're going, imagine that's
a rooster crow in all day.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, and and then what we would do to the
neighborhood dogs?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Can?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I can?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I can? I also ask another stupid question if you
have if you have backyard chickens right like legit hens,
do you need one rooster?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No, so you don't need a rooster at all. The
rooster plays no part in getting eggs correct, so you
don't even need roosters.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
But somebody said that they've heard for like tractor supply,
they're shipped to stores the day after they hatch, so
some in there are less.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Than a week old.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
In the tractor supply more difficult. So even tractor supply
wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, he's had a few weeks old.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
But the person's saying it's even tougher because these things
are just hatched.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it is just a massive business. And if I
end up Let's say I go buy three chicks from
tractor supply, huh right, and they're they're old, they're ten
days old, and I get them home and now I'm
sixteen weeks in and I got scream and roosters in
the back. What do you do with them?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You bring him to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He's got six And again I think that's great for
more the No, but that's great. And like I'm on
chick Chat out in Louden County and it's the same thing.
But at some point that's what this whole article says.
They are overrun with roosters. They don't know where to
put them.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So even the person who wrote this said, there's no solution. No,
I'm trying to find online if there's a resource that
explains options.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It says until weeks after chickens are brought home, they
wound up being roosters. Frequent crowing, protective behavior, sharp spurs roosters.
Roosters are often banned in cities, suburbs, and a lot
of homeowners associations. Owners are having to make other arrangements
very very quickly. But it doesn't sound like there's really
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many arrangements that you can make.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Now This says you can bring them to another type
of rescue to use them as food.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
What's the other type of rescue? Popeyes?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
By the way, I just saw Popeyes commercial two days
ago and I said out loud to Jackie, I have
to have Popeye soon. Has It's been way too between
that and pizza. It's been way too long since I've
had any Popeyes. But No, Popeyes isn't serving rooster. They
serve chicken. So like if you take them.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
To birds of prey chickens like hawks.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, but those are in coops, So the roosters I
just have to leave out and just let them swoop
in and kill them.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, if you bring it to like a wrapped or sanctuary,
then they could maybe use them and process them for
food the way that is his right for I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Taking it too. I'm not taking it to wolf trap
and they're just grinding it too. Yeah, and they're like
grinding it down for dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
You probably could grind down for humans. I know Diane
was joking, but I bet you can. It's still like
the correct grade for human consumption.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So I'm going to like the bronze chicken turkey place.
I'm going to dry pluck and hang.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Them like Kelly Brown.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's why I don't live in this world. That's exactly
why I don't live in this world. Hi Elliot in
the morning, Hey Elliott, how are you? Oh my god,
everybody has roosters. Yes, ma'am, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
So in this last spring, we got five chickens from
tractor supply and they said that you can sext them
by the shape of their wings, and the lady guaranteed
we had five hens. Turned out we had five roosters.
I got a letter in the mail from inn Arundo
County saying that I needed to get rid of my rooster,
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and they they gave me like five days to get
rid of my chickens. And luckily, my boyfriend knows someone
on the Eastern Shore who has hundreds of chickens. So
we just went over and dropped them off.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
If you wouldn't have known, like somebody on the Eastern Shore,
what would you have done.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
That's the thing we researched. We reached out to a
local poultry farmer and she's like, yeah, I'm not accepting
any roosters. I have no idea what what to offer you.
There's nothing.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Did you complain to tractor supply.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
More or less?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, what about that guarantee?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Exactly? Can my daughter say, hi, do you we listen
to you guys every morning?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Certainly that would be nice, Pilent, I'm a big thing of.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The Well, that's very kind, that's very kind. I appreciate.
I hope you have a wonderful day today.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Thank you, Elliott, you got it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Talk to you later. Can I can I ask a
rude question? Are there people And I'm I'm not condoning it,
but are there people that just go about back and
put them down?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Well, for the more tender meat, you do want to
butcher them young, so if they're older it may be
easier to deal with.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
No, it says you need to do slow moist cooking
for the older roosters like a stew the no.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, But what I'm saying do people do people just
go out back and just pop them?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Because we got a DM from someone that brought theirs
to or a couple of them to an Amish auction.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, Kristen, And how.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Much did they get for it?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It was.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Barely got a nickel for each one?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, but by the way you're happy with that, you
just want to get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I guess it's no longer your problem. Yeah, despite the
lack of county.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Just yelled at that woman. Where am I going? Line five?
Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hey, Elliott's aaron for some colors. Love of you guys,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So we we have backyard chickens down in Saint Mary's County.
And when we get like we get yum yums. We
call them meat chickens and and and ones that lay eggs,
but ones that are turn out to be roosters. We
take them to the Amish after about like six weeks
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or whatever, and then we put them we we turn
them into meat chickens. So we eat them. So we eat.
We have the the hens for the eggs, and then
we eat the chickens for the meat the roosters.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So wait, so if you take it to the Amish,
they prep it for you.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yes, I do. We get all of our eggs our
chicks from the Amish, like all kinds of silkies, like
feather chicken, like all kinds of chickens because they're fun
to have. And then if any of them turn out
to be roosters because they can get very mean, and
we'll just take them up them there to process them.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And you come back with like a rotissery.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, yes, come back like one time I hatch so
I actually incubated over coated nine chicks. Half of them
turned out to be roosters, and so they were I mean,
they were just so mean over our hens that we
took them up to to the Amish. They you know,
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befeathered them, cut the heads off, and uh, we picked
up some frozen turkeys.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
There you go. Yeah, no, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Is it true that rooster meat? Somebody said it's like
dark meat on a turkey.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I mean it tastes just like chicken like legit.
I just put it in my my croc bot and
the rose the whole turkey.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Have more.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Fact, I thought darkbeat was fatter, the fattier, oilier.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And it's actually since since you don't since they aren't
living and running around that often, because you kind of
catch them before you know, they get to be a
year old, they're not. It's not tough like meat. It's
actually really good meat.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it's like veal. The the baby turkeys are the
veal of poultry. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
I didn't know that about the Amish. You know the
other thing that I don't think I could do, and listen,
I'll eat anything. I'll eat anything. I'll try anything. I
don't care what the animal is like, I'll get after it.
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I don't think that I could eat the turkey that
was or the reason walk with under your arm that
was in my backyard. Now, I don't know that I
could do that.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
You're always bothered when people are naming pigs, yes, cows, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It upsets you.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But like, I have no problem I have like I'm
trying to think like fish. I have no problem with
Like I've seen fish get like whole fish get cut
up and eat that. But like I've never sat there
and watched them slice the head off of my pet
that was in the backyard for sixteen weeks and then I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Eating this you ate in your bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Now, I guess that's true. If I had a fish tank,
I wouldn't pull it out of it and need it.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, it's a lot different.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, I think I'm a pussy like that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, I think it just means you're sensitive.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The thank you, thank you. Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Hi the morning?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Is this me?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah? Hi? Who's this? Hi?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
This is Nicky from Anapolis.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, Nicky.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Hey, So I used to raise and process all of
my own birds, and I ordered twenty seven roosters one
time because they grow the fastest and the quickest, and
they're the heaviest.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And so you got roosters just to process them at home?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I did.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah, I live on a dead end street. My family
has a little compound at the end of the street,
so it's really quiet. It's just family. I don't have
an HOA association or anything like that. But yeah, they
grow the fastest, they're the heaviest, and the processing time
for them is a little bit shorter because of the
sex that they are.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
How old How old are they when you when you
let them have it?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Five months?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So from five months you got that thing running around
for five months?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Five months?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Can I ask you this, like, when it's when it's
time to I know, process sounds like it's such a
nice word, but when it's when when it's time to process,
do you just do you just you do? You just
machete the neck?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
So there is a cone that you can put them
and you put them head down and then that way
they slightly pass out, and then you just cut their
jugular and then they just pass out. And then that's
kind of how it ends.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Do they like being upside down like when you got
to push them in that cone?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
They ain't happy, right, I mean, you're talking.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
To somebody that doesn't look at it as a pet.
So I think it just kind of depends. I mean,
for me, I bought these birds with the intention that
I was going to raise them from chicks and feed
them the right way, give them, you know, the best
that I could, and give them the best life, with
the intention that they were food. So I did what
I could for them. I have a really big coop
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in my backyard, so they always had access to you know,
fresh air, fresh water. I worked with a Mennonite that
provided me with an organic, non GMO feed, so I
raised them really well. The taste of the birds was
really good. They make for a good crockpot dinner recipe.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Hey, the if I if I here we go?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Is this thing flanging upside down things?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Flat back chicken cones butchering.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
On Amazon comic gloves so.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hey, is yours? This one is Oh my god, they're
not showing it in use, are they the No, they're
just wiping the blood off of this one. The it's
stainless steel for easy cleaning. Hey does yours? Does your
Does your cone hang on like h like the side
of a fence or like a post or something like that.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, you can hang it on, you can. You can
put it onto a tree, right, you can put onto
a tree.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If I if I dug that tree up, how much
blood is in the soil around that tree?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Okay, So this is gonna sound kind of weird, but
keep in mind that because if you're doing this in
the woods, you're going to attract animals. So it's just
like a hunter. So when you're like you guys were
talking about deer, if you're if you're gutting a deer,
an animal is gonna come behind and clean it up.
So we've got foxes, we've got raccoons, we've got possums.
I mean, all of those animals are going to kind
of come around and it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Sou I have rabils.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
The cone zone the All right, very good, very good,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What a great Christmas gift for Kristen the no, but
just like, don't get one for me, don't get one
from So you just shove it down in their head
first and then just slice its neck.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
This says, cut around the anus to the rib cage,
from the to the cage.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Use your fingers, oh, I know, because you know some
of the ones purchased on Amazon. Your fingers to ease
the guts from the frame. Ease the guts and it'll
all come in one pull.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Wait, so can I ask you a question that changes things?
So I'm not cutting the neck, I'm cutting the anus.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It says.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
The traffic co method is the best and most humane
I have ever used. I fast the chickens overnight and
half a day helps with the process.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
They fast, Yeah, because you don't want a full stomach.
You don't want a full stomach.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Okay, so they're upside down and hungry.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I use a length of bale string to make a
loop around the head. Feed the string through the cone first,
then the chicken. I pull the string to get a
tot neck. So the cut is clean. Yeah, and there's
no hacking. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Bleeding is quick and I get the next chicken. While
this is happening sixty seconds in boiling water. Use fresh
boiling water for best results. Make sure your knifes are
sharp sharp. Then you do the anus to rib cage cut. Oh,
be careful if the water is too hot, it could
scald the skin.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
That you don't want or my hand when I'm digging
in the anus.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You don't want to start cooking the chicken. You just
want to make the feathers easier to remove.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, it's like shrimp.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It is like shrimp.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
No, God can't wait for my Christmas Eve tradition of
chicken cocktail.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Hey Elliott, is this me?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah? Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 10 (27:11):
This is Sarah from Clifton. So I just started this
whole backyard chicken thing like six months ago. So I
follow all these Facebook groups. The thing you got to
worry about with rehoming roosters is you gotta worry about
who you're giving it to because of cockfights, all the
underground cockfighting going on.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
By the way, that's what would happen to me. I
would just give it to two random guys and the
next thing, I'm swept up in a string or a sting.
Rather of cockfighting, exactly, so is that is that a
big deal? Do like like like cockfight breeders? Do they
just like live on like chicken chat looking to rehome roosters.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
I think I read it something we've heard of it.
I don't know anybody who does it.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Do you have a chicken cone or rooster cone in
case you got off one?
Speaker 10 (27:57):
No, my husband really wants one. No, he's getting really
into it. Maybe for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
By the way, you know how I wanted to get
bumper stickers. Maybe I get our logo on the cone
chicken coat, Yes, flat bag fla put a sticker on
your cone that you could also go.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
That's easier.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You could also go, Yeah, but I want stickers on cars.
We yeah, both the well I well, sure money grows
on trees, why wouldn't I All right, very good, very good,
thank you man.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
But can my eight year old says up to you. Sure, well,
if I could find her, we listen to you every
day on the way into uh school, But I of
course can't find her.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Now, how big is your car?
Speaker 10 (28:41):
No, we're at home right now. We're hoping for a
two hour delay. But you're right, it's just raining.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, No, I know I called that yesterday.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
All right, Well I can't find her.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
All right, Well, best of luck, best of luck.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
All right, you know her,
Do you have backyard chickens or or like, do you
have a chicken coop? I don't, though they do they do. Hey,
so the how long? How long have they had them?
A couple of years and everything's fine. It doesn't cause
any problems. Like everything is good.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah for the most part. You know, the roosters can
get kind of annoying, but there we go. You know,
we have them dinner every once in a while.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The uh no, that's good. Here's my question. So I'm
not I don't live in that world at all, right,
I don't. I don't have backyard chickens. My neighbors don't
have backyard chickens, Thank god. I don't have any that
are right right around me. When you're not supposed to
have roosters though, right, I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Don't really have an hoa or there's no neighborhood covenants,
so you pretty much do what you want. It was
the seventies development before all that became popular.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
But don't aren't there some? Aren't there some? And I
understand that like an hoa may say yes or no
about what you can and can't have, but aren't there
some areas or or like towns municipalities counties that forbid
you from keeping roosters.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It's hens only, hens only. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Is that a Maryland law?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I know, it's not statewide. Frederick is pretty agricultural still
in that sense, so you can.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Have whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much farm farm animal type stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, for sure, I got you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Because there was a there was a story going around
yesterday that Maryland is facing a rooster epidemic, that a
rooster epidemic, that there there there's roosters surplus. Yeah, oh everywhere, everywhere,
and to the point where like I wouldn't I wouldn't
like in the rooster just a man chicken, male a
(01:51):
male chicken. It's still man. Yeah, when it gets old
enough the Yeah, but you can't really do it, like
they're very aggressive animals. Yeah, So what do you if
you have one? What are you supposed to do with it?
Don't you just turn it in?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, I mean the trick is to not have roosters
to begin with, that's the goal. But you know, you
get you buy kicks, and there are promise to be
all female, and that never turns out to be the case.
So all of a sudden, you have four roosters, most
people try and give them away or you have them
for dinner. I mean, that's that's about it.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Can I can I ask another question? Let's say I
went and got a bunch of chicks. I'm being honest,
How would I know? How would I know if I
got a hen or a rooster? Hello? O? Their voices
usually okay, all right, very good, very good? Seriously, like
I know he's kidding, good, dude, will do Yeah, how
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would you? How would you know?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I'm sure people who deal in this space can tell
you that there's behavioral and.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, but I've already got I've already got it home
at that point, that's too.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Late at it when you're at the tractor supply.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
The But that's what I'm saying. Would you know just
getting it what it is?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I bet there are tips and tricks?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Then why does so many people have roosters?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Because they probably didn't know these when everyone started backyard
farming during the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So they didn't know what they were looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, they were newbies to the game.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And now there's now they there's roosters all over the place,
And if you have one, what are you supposed to
do with it?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I've heard eat them.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I bet in some places like Frederick, they are allowed.
They're also very loud, but they are not proact. It's committed, right. Yeah,
But if I live in Gaithersburg.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I don't know what the Montgomery County rule is.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I bet you can't have rooster.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Gaithersburg has farm lands. I'm sure in those spaces you
can have roosters.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, but you can't just if I lived in a
townhouse community, which by the way, I probably wouldn't have
backyard chickens. I can't just go drop them off on
somebody's farm.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay. Now you're talking about abandoning them.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, I don't know what to do, so I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Know if that's what you need to be doing. I
thought you meant like are you because you said the farm?
Are there? Are there rooster rescues?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh? Like like like like orphanages or like dog rescues orphanage.
But okay, if you take a dog to a dog rescue,
people adopt the dog. Nobody's adopting a rooster.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You don't know that who's adopting a rooster.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
I have people with farms. You want to annoy their neighbor.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Let me go to line too. Hi, Elliot in the morning. Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Hey Eric from Fairfax?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hey Eric from Fairfax?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
How are you okay?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Just trying to get through my shift?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Hey, I got you. What do you do for a living?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I'm a police officer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, I hope it's a I hope it is a
quiet rest of your shift.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I hope they thank you for the appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You got it? Yes, And I hope I hope it
was a quiet night. Hey, you might know what do
you where? Do you live in fair Facts? I know
you're an officer in Fairfax.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I live in Fairfax.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
I'm actually an officer in DC.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oh okay, Hey do you don't have any backyard chickens?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sir at all?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you know what the rules are in Fairfax?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I couldn't even tell you that.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Do you know how to tell the difference if I
gave you a chick whether it is a hand or
a rooster? Yeah? No, I'm with you. Nobody would know.
Nobody would not.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
The internet you, No, it's it's it's their feathers that
you can differentiate between the females and the males.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
As a chick as a baby.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
They call it feather sexing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh what is the line from that movie? Oh take
a yass with a feather, Kristen, Will you find me
somebody who knows? And by the way, if everybody knew
these rules, there wouldn't be this epidemic. That's what they
call it. Rooster epidemic in Maryland and beyond, fueled by
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backyard coops.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That were purchased and set up during COVID that's.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
When it started.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But there you go. But people have through their research.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
They spent so much time researching the shot.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No, but people have started backyard chickens since the pandemic ended.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
But it was wild.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh people went crazy. Yeah, I agree, I agree, But
people still have them.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
But I just think those people knew better or continue
to know better because they're operating them. Half the people
that started during the pandemic have probably lost interest in
the hens.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Also, they're just not tending to it like they used.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
To, so they're just walking.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, they're just like eugh.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
It's like that puzzle in the dining room. I'm over that.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Probably how Chesterfield's overrun with chickens?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Why do they have a bad also, remember all those
people started sending photos of the chickens along the road.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Oh that's right, yeah, oh those But weren't those turkeys?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I thought they were.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Weren't it? Weren't the like going back to talking about
wasn't it turkeys that were running around in Chesterfield and
everybody saw him?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, which, by the way, to me, same thing
as a rooster. I don't know the difference between. I
know roosters don't lay eggs. I know that that hens
do the and chick Is is it chicken hand or
his chicken rooster? Or is it just a baby of
either one?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
They think baby turkeys can be called chicks also, or
is there a proper name? You can call it a
chick or a poult? I never heard that word a
pulp e o U L t alt I made a polt?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Uh? Where am I going? Line three hill in the.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Morning, Good morning, Elliott. We're kind of we're done here.
We actually have a farm rescue when we rescue roosters.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Let me ask you this, how overrun with roosters are you?
Speaker 8 (08:12):
We have six pens. Each pen has a rooster with
some hens, but every one of them are rescue and
they're actually very friendly. They're not aggressive at all.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But isn't that the isn't that the rumor about? And
maybe at a rescue where there is like a lot
of hens that they can kind of get with, like
that makes sense, But in general in general, aren't they
said to be pretty aggressive like in somebody's backyard.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Make Kenny, there's no doubt. It's just we're very lucky
to have six roosters that aren't and two of them
have actually come from the Arlington Animal Rescue League because
they were abandoned, and yeah, we go pick them up
and bring them out to the farm. We've got forty
three rescue goats too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When you say abandoned or do people like who have
backyard roosters do they just kind of like leave the
gate open and just let them go.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Oh oh, they just dump them off. What happens is
you can't really when you get the chicks from Tractor Supply,
you cannot tell what they are till they get to
about sixteen weeks and overnight you're all of a sudden, hey,
this guy's got some tail feathers and there's you know,
being a little different.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And when you when you get them from like tractor
supply or something like that. At what age? What age
do you get like at sixteen weeks is when you
can if I can borrow a term from Diane, is
when I can feather sex them. What is sure? At
what age? At what age would I like go to
the store and get them?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
You're getting them at a couple weeks old. When you're
getting them from tractor supply. There's there's really no way
to tell, so.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You'd have no idea. So all these people come home
with chicks that they think are going to be hens,
but they turn out to be roosters.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Correct, and then they start crowing, and you know, out
out in the country you can have them. Obviously in
the city limits you can have your hens. And obviously
people need to get rid of a lot of roosters
after the pandemic. As you guys were.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Saying, So since you run a rescue and I mean,
I feel like and I listen, I think it's great
that you were able to get six, but I feel
like that is that's like spit in the ocean.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
You're one hundred percent right. There's for instance, like on Facebook,
the Western County loudon County Chicken Chat page. Everyone's trying to,
you know, rehome roosters daily.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And how would who would I'm being serious, who would
rehome a rooster other than a farm?
Speaker 8 (10:35):
No one?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, okay, so they're just kind of sitting out there,
all right, very good, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
I don't like that they're from Marlington Chicken Chat.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Remember my favorite del mar of a radio station, Sicken Country.
I'm pretty sure the personality there's name.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is so what do you but but nobody's answered my question.
What do you do with these things? Like? Do they
serve any purpose?
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, are they prohibited in most backyard settings? One because
they don't lay ex I understand that, but is it?
Is it all based on noise issues?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Noise? Here's what Here's what I said.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
They're not that aggressive.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
His Here's what I read is that that they're very noisy. Yeah,
like so imagine if you just oh my god, yeah,
like listen. I am thrilled that none of my neighbors
that I know of have chickens. I am thrilled with that.
I feel like that would be loud and obnoxious. But
the but to have roosters back there crowing, Oh my god,
(11:38):
all day and all night. I don't like sometimes we
have a like a catty corner neighbor that leaves their
dogs in their backyard all day. Yeah, and those things
bark like crazy. It's not the dog's fault, but that's annoying.
I'm trying to listen the and they're going, imagine that's
a rooster crow in all day.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, and and then what we would do to the
neighborhood dogs?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Can?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I can?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I can? I also ask another stupid question if you
have if you have backyard chickens right like legit hens,
do you need one rooster?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
No, so you don't need a rooster at all. The
rooster plays no part in getting eggs correct, so you
don't even need roosters.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
But somebody said that they've heard for like tractor supply,
they're shipped to stores the day after they hatch, so
some in there are less.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Than a week old.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
In the tractor supply more difficult. So even tractor supply
wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, he's had a few weeks old.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
But the person's saying it's even tougher because these things
are just hatched.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it is just a massive business. And if I
end up Let's say I go buy three chicks from
tractor supply, huh right, and they're they're old, they're ten
days old, and I get them home and now I'm
sixteen weeks in and I got scream and roosters in
the back. What do you do with them?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You bring him to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
He's got six And again I think that's great for
more the No, but that's great. And like I'm on
chick Chat out in Louden County and it's the same thing.
But at some point that's what this whole article says.
They are overrun with roosters. They don't know where to
put them.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So even the person who wrote this said, there's no solution. No,
I'm trying to find online if there's a resource that
explains options.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It says until weeks after chickens are brought home, they
wound up being roosters. Frequent crowing, protective behavior, sharp spurs roosters.
Roosters are often banned in cities, suburbs, and a lot
of homeowners associations. Owners are having to make other arrangements
very very quickly. But it doesn't sound like there's really
(13:56):
many arrangements that you can make.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Now This says you can bring them to another type
of rescue to use them as food.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
What's the other type of rescue? Popeyes?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
By the way, I just saw Popeyes commercial two days
ago and I said out loud to Jackie, I have
to have Popeye soon. Has It's been way too between
that and pizza. It's been way too long since I've
had any Popeyes. But No, Popeyes isn't serving rooster. They
serve chicken. So like if you take them.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
To birds of prey chickens like hawks.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, but those are in coops, So the roosters I
just have to leave out and just let them swoop
in and kill them.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Well, if you bring it to like a wrapped or sanctuary,
then they could maybe use them and process them for
food the way that is his right for I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Taking it too. I'm not taking it to wolf trap
and they're just grinding it too. Yeah, and they're like
grinding it down for dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
You probably could grind down for humans. I know Diane
was joking, but I bet you can. It's still like
the correct grade for human consumption.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So I'm going to like the bronze chicken turkey place.
I'm going to dry pluck and hang.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Them like Kelly Brown.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's why I don't live in this world. That's exactly
why I don't live in this world. Hi Elliot in
the morning, Hey Elliott, how are you? Oh my god,
everybody has roosters. Yes, ma'am, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
So in this last spring, we got five chickens from
tractor supply and they said that you can sext them
by the shape of their wings, and the lady guaranteed
we had five hens. Turned out we had five roosters.
I got a letter in the mail from inn Arundo
County saying that I needed to get rid of my rooster,
(15:54):
and they they gave me like five days to get
rid of my chickens. And luckily, my boyfriend knows someone
on the Eastern Shore who has hundreds of chickens. So
we just went over and dropped them off.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
If you wouldn't have known, like somebody on the Eastern Shore,
what would you have done.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
That's the thing we researched. We reached out to a
local poultry farmer and she's like, yeah, I'm not accepting
any roosters. I have no idea what what to offer you.
There's nothing.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Did you complain to tractor supply.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
More or less?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, what about that guarantee?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Exactly? Can my daughter say, hi, do you we listen
to you guys every morning?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Certainly that would be nice, Pilent, I'm a big thing of.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The Well, that's very kind, that's very kind. I appreciate.
I hope you have a wonderful day today.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Thank you, Elliott, you got it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Talk to you later. Can I can I ask a
rude question? Are there people And I'm I'm not condoning it,
but are there people that just go about back and
put them down?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Well, for the more tender meat, you do want to
butcher them young, so if they're older it may be
easier to deal with.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
No, it says you need to do slow moist cooking
for the older roosters like a stew the no.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
No, But what I'm saying do people do people just
go out back and just pop them?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Because we got a DM from someone that brought theirs
to or a couple of them to an Amish auction.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, Kristen, And how.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Much did they get for it?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It was.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Barely got a nickel for each one?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, but by the way you're happy with that, you
just want to get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I guess it's no longer your problem. Yeah, despite the
lack of county.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Just yelled at that woman. Where am I going? Line five?
Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hey, Elliott's aaron for some colors. Love of you guys,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So we we have backyard chickens down in Saint Mary's County.
And when we get like we get yum yums. We
call them meat chickens and and and ones that lay eggs,
but ones that are turn out to be roosters. We
take them to the Amish after about like six weeks
(18:26):
or whatever, and then we put them we we turn
them into meat chickens. So we eat them. So we eat.
We have the the hens for the eggs, and then
we eat the chickens for the meat the roosters.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
So wait, so if you take it to the Amish,
they prep it for you.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yes, I do. We get all of our eggs our
chicks from the Amish, like all kinds of silkies, like
feather chicken, like all kinds of chickens because they're fun
to have. And then if any of them turn out
to be roosters because they can get very mean, and
we'll just take them up them there to process them.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
And you come back with like a rotissery.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, yes, come back like one time I hatch so
I actually incubated over coated nine chicks. Half of them
turned out to be roosters, and so they were I mean,
they were just so mean over our hens that we
took them up to to the Amish. They you know,
(19:28):
befeathered them, cut the heads off, and uh, we picked
up some frozen turkeys.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
There you go. Yeah, no, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Is it true that rooster meat? Somebody said it's like
dark meat on a turkey.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I mean it tastes just like chicken like legit.
I just put it in my my croc bot and
the rose the whole turkey.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Have more.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Fact, I thought darkbeat was fatter, the fattier, oilier.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh yeah it is.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And it's actually since since you don't since they aren't
living and running around that often, because you kind of
catch them before you know, they get to be a
year old, they're not. It's not tough like meat. It's
actually really good meat.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it's like veal. The the baby turkeys are the
veal of poultry. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
I didn't know that about the Amish. You know the
other thing that I don't think I could do, and listen,
I'll eat anything. I'll eat anything. I'll try anything. I
don't care what the animal is like, I'll get after it.
(20:40):
I don't think that I could eat the turkey that
was or the reason walk with under your arm that
was in my backyard. Now, I don't know that I
could do that.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
You're always bothered when people are naming pigs, yes, cows, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It upsets you.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But like, I have no problem I have like I'm
trying to think like fish. I have no problem with
Like I've seen fish get like whole fish get cut
up and eat that. But like I've never sat there
and watched them slice the head off of my pet
that was in the backyard for sixteen weeks and then I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Eating this you ate in your bowl.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Now, I guess that's true. If I had a fish tank,
I wouldn't pull it out of it and need it.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, it's a lot different.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, I think I'm a pussy like that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, I think it just means you're sensitive.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The thank you, thank you. Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Hi the morning?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Is this me?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah? Hi? Who's this? Hi?
Speaker 9 (21:36):
This is Nicky from Anapolis.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, Nicky.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Hey, So I used to raise and process all of
my own birds, and I ordered twenty seven roosters one
time because they grow the fastest and the quickest, and
they're the heaviest.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And so you got roosters just to process them at home?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I did.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Yeah, I live on a dead end street. My family
has a little compound at the end of the street,
so it's really quiet. It's just family. I don't have
an HOA association or anything like that. But yeah, they
grow the fastest, they're the heaviest, and the processing time
for them is a little bit shorter because of the
sex that they are.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
How old How old are they when you when you
let them have it?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Five months?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
So from five months you got that thing running around
for five months?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Five months?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Can I ask you this, like, when it's when it's
time to I know, process sounds like it's such a
nice word, but when it's when when it's time to process,
do you just do you just you do? You just
machete the neck?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
So there is a cone that you can put them
and you put them head down and then that way
they slightly pass out, and then you just cut their
jugular and then they just pass out. And then that's
kind of how it ends.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Do they like being upside down like when you got
to push them in that cone?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
They ain't happy, right, I mean, you're talking.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
To somebody that doesn't look at it as a pet.
So I think it just kind of depends. I mean,
for me, I bought these birds with the intention that
I was going to raise them from chicks and feed
them the right way, give them, you know, the best
that I could, and give them the best life, with
the intention that they were food. So I did what
I could for them. I have a really big coop
(23:31):
in my backyard, so they always had access to you know,
fresh air, fresh water. I worked with a Mennonite that
provided me with an organic, non GMO feed, so I
raised them really well. The taste of the birds was
really good. They make for a good crockpot dinner recipe.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Hey, the if I if I here we go?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Is this thing flanging upside down things?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Flat back chicken cones butchering.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
On Amazon comic gloves so.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hey, is yours? This one is Oh my god, they're
not showing it in use, are they the No, they're
just wiping the blood off of this one. The it's
stainless steel for easy cleaning. Hey does yours? Does your
Does your cone hang on like h like the side
of a fence or like a post or something like that.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, you can hang it on, you can. You can
put it onto a tree, right, you can put onto
a tree.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
If I if I dug that tree up, how much
blood is in the soil around that tree?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Okay, So this is gonna sound kind of weird, but
keep in mind that because if you're doing this in
the woods, you're going to attract animals. So it's just
like a hunter. So when you're like you guys were
talking about deer, if you're if you're gutting a deer,
an animal is gonna come behind and clean it up.
So we've got foxes, we've got raccoons, we've got possums.
I mean, all of those animals are going to kind
of come around and it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Sou I have rabils.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
The cone zone the All right, very good, very good,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
What a great Christmas gift for Kristen the no, but
just like, don't get one for me, don't get one
from So you just shove it down in their head
first and then just slice its neck.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
This says, cut around the anus to the rib cage,
from the to the cage.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Use your fingers, oh, I know, because you know some
of the ones purchased on Amazon. Your fingers to ease
the guts from the frame. Ease the guts and it'll
all come in one pull.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Wait, so can I ask you a question that changes things?
So I'm not cutting the neck, I'm cutting the anus.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It says.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
The traffic co method is the best and most humane
I have ever used. I fast the chickens overnight and
half a day helps with the process.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
They fast, Yeah, because you don't want a full stomach.
You don't want a full stomach.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Okay, so they're upside down and hungry.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I use a length of bale string to make a
loop around the head. Feed the string through the cone first,
then the chicken. I pull the string to get a
tot neck. So the cut is clean. Yeah, and there's
no hacking. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Bleeding is quick and I get the next chicken. While
this is happening sixty seconds in boiling water. Use fresh
boiling water for best results. Make sure your knifes are
sharp sharp. Then you do the anus to rib cage cut. Oh,
be careful if the water is too hot, it could
scald the skin.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
That you don't want or my hand when I'm digging
in the anus.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
You don't want to start cooking the chicken. You just
want to make the feathers easier to remove.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, it's like shrimp.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It is like shrimp.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
No, God can't wait for my Christmas Eve tradition of
chicken cocktail.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Hey Elliott, is this me?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah? Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 10 (27:11):
This is Sarah from Clifton. So I just started this
whole backyard chicken thing like six months ago. So I
follow all these Facebook groups. The thing you got to
worry about with rehoming roosters is you gotta worry about
who you're giving it to because of cockfights, all the
underground cockfighting going on.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
By the way, that's what would happen to me. I
would just give it to two random guys and the
next thing, I'm swept up in a string or a sting.
Rather of cockfighting, exactly, so is that is that a
big deal? Do like like like cockfight breeders? Do they
just like live on like chicken chat looking to rehome roosters.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
I think I read it something we've heard of it.
I don't know anybody who does it.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Do you have a chicken cone or rooster cone in
case you got off one?
Speaker 10 (27:57):
No, my husband really wants one. No, he's getting really
into it. Maybe for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
By the way, you know how I wanted to get
bumper stickers. Maybe I get our logo on the cone
chicken coat, Yes, flat bag fla put a sticker on
your cone that you could also go.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
That's easier.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You could also go, Yeah, but I want stickers on cars.
We yeah, both the well I well, sure money grows
on trees, why wouldn't I All right, very good, very good,
thank you man.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
But can my eight year old says up to you. Sure, well,
if I could find her, we listen to you every
day on the way into uh school, But I of
course can't find her.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Now, how big is your car?
Speaker 10 (28:41):
No, we're at home right now. We're hoping for a
two hour delay. But you're right, it's just raining.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, No, I know I called that yesterday.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
All right, Well I can't find her.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
All right, Well, best of luck, best of luck.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
All right, you know her,
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