Just curious - I've never heard of anyone eating Rooster before & wondered why that is ? Has anyone ate it ? Does it taste just like Chicken or does it taste funny ?? Just Curious
2006-09-19 20:04:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I know its a Chicken -DUH - but I was told its not used at all only female chickens -is that true ?
2006-09-19 20:08:40 · update #1
A roasting rooster is a capon usually, a rooster that has ben casterated so it gets nice and fat. Many friers are roosters though. Chicken is just a general term used for that type of poultry.
2006-09-19 20:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by missmoon_1953 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes you definitely can eat rooster. You may be eating rooster even in restaurants and not know it. It tastes just like any other chicken. I have eaten it many times you can't tell the difference.
Probably if they said they serve rooster, no one would know what they are talking about. But since they just leave it as chicken, then it could be either a hen or a rooster.
2006-09-19 20:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by bro_ken128 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Rooster Meat
2016-09-28 12:10:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When cooked, there is no difference. Make sure you have had much of it by now under the same name, chicken. Roosters and Hens are both chicken in terms of eating'em!!!
2006-09-19 20:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by mr_hossi 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a rule, hens tend to be more numerous than roosters. Having had relatives with farms, including one that sold eggs commercially, I never noticed any difference in the flavor or texture of either. In breeder flocks, for meat markets, the ratio is about 25 hens to 1 rooster though it can be less so the number of males hatched would tend to be less so the market would be smaller and, after all that, the fact is that roosters are used commercially as meat animals. You just have to spend more effort looking for them.
2006-09-19 20:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by Draken 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The capon (as mentioned before, a castrated male chicken) is juicier and more delicious than a small frying chicken. At Thanksgiving, I always order a Tom turkey rather than a hen. They are bigger (24-32 lbs) and have more flavor. They are bred to have big breasts, but the meat is not as dry as a small hen.
Roosters don't lay eggs. They do fertilize them, and you need to have them around, or you won't get baby chicks (male or female).
2006-09-19 20:19:25 · answer #6 · answered by SympatheticEar 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I grew up on a farm and I remember my grandmother preparing both hens and roosters for the family meal.
I considered them my pets so it was hard for me to let them be killed for food. The times I could force myself to eat the chicken I did not notice any difference in taste.
2006-09-19 20:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by Kainoa 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The chickens that you eat are often roosters but young and immature ones as a mature one would be tough and have a slightly gamey taste. I have eaten a mature rooster after it kept attacking the neighbours kids. It was made into a stew and had plenty of flavour.
2006-09-19 20:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by Vermin 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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At that age, you should be feeding them a grower/finisher. Dumor is a good feed and purina also has a good one. You can find one at your local feed store, or farm store, I get mine from Tractor Supply. What your feeding them now doesn't have the nutrients they need to get any bigger, and the rice is probably doing alot of damage to their stomaches. If you don't have the proper chicken feed, a mixture of bread crumbs and vegetable scraps is probably the best thing to get them through until you can get proper feed.
2016-04-04 01:34:30 · answer #9 · answered by Edeltraud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rooster is also a chicken, so why not eat rooster?
2006-09-19 20:06:51 · answer #10 · answered by vsg0818 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋