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I cannot understand why the chicken was killed so late before the celebration. We always liked to hang ours for a few days to get a better flavour. About 4 or 5 days before Christmas the jolly cocks stopped calling to each other and it always seemed a deadly silence to me when I was a small lad. 
posted by
C_C_T
on October 19, 2013 at 11:50 AM
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Poor chickens! It took me a while, but now I fully understand why my wife is a vegetarian . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on October 18, 2013 at 5:45 AM
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So so true...... same here for us.
posted by
Straightforward
on October 18, 2013 at 3:35 AM
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I really like your artwork.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 17, 2013 at 7:43 PM
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We had chickens when I was a child. I well remember headless chickens flopping all over the yard, and stinky wet feathers being plucked.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 17, 2013 at 7:42 PM
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You have sent me remembering back to when I was a kid growing up on the farm. Several times a year Dad would chop the head of a chicken....chook we called her/him and we would really enjoy a Sunday roast. It was a special treat and yes it tasted full of flavour and was twice the size of what you buy today.
posted by
Kabu
on October 17, 2013 at 6:46 PM
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Setaki
Another neat vignette of life in the 'Townships'...
I should point out, however, that there is no cruelty involved to let the chicken run around headless for a few seconds. It may be messy and sort of tasteless, but I really don't see why the SPCA should become involved. Once the head is chopped off, whatever happens to the rest of the body no longer registers! Whatever pain the head feels (if it does) is confined to the area of the neck...There are some interesting accounts of heads 'living' for a few moments after having been chopped off by Mme. Guillotine during the French Revolution...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 17, 2013 at 4:48 PM
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my mom used to help kill the chickens, my uncles hunted for squirrels or rabbits...(sorry kabu)...they lived on a farm and there were 14 kids...
posted by
Annicita
on October 17, 2013 at 4:05 PM
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We are thinking of keeping chickens next spring. Now we get our eggs from our neighbors and you are right, the flavor is much better than the eggs we buy.
posted by
UtahJay
on October 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM
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Excellent
posted by
BC-A
on October 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM
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It is interesting to read when chicken was eaten and what went into preparing it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM
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