symondrake.com » Chickens http://www.symondrake.com Symon's blog (in case you hadn't figured that out already) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:27:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The day Taloola crowed http://www.symondrake.com/the-day-taloola-crowed/ http://www.symondrake.com/the-day-taloola-crowed/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:04:00 +0000 Symon http://www.symondrake.com/?p=125 I thought Taloola was a just a really big hen, until recently, when my son mentioned that he saw her ‘riding on the other hen’s backs’. And so, we realised that she was actually a ‘he’… and Taloola became Mr. Taloola.

Surprisingly, Taloola never crowed until today (perhaps his name confused him somewhat). He sealed his fate at 5.30am this morning, when his masculinity kicked in and for the first time he was the king of the roost. Unfortunately, keeping roosters is illegal in urban areas of NZ. Seeing that free-range chicken meat is very expensive and that Christmas is only a few days away, I decided that Mr. Taloola would give his life for a worthy cause…. Christmas lunch.

My brother, his wife and son are staying for a few days. This afternoon, as I dispatched Taloola (with my rather blunt garden-machette), little did I realise that my nephew was watching… in horror.

A scene from Napoleon Dynamite immediately came to mind… and although the situation was unfortunate, I can’t help but smile.

]]> http://www.symondrake.com/the-day-taloola-crowed/feed/ 4 Lucky’s Big Day http://www.symondrake.com/luckys-big-day/ http://www.symondrake.com/luckys-big-day/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:11:00 +0000 Symon http://www.symondrake.com/?p=95 This is the photo-story of Lucky (our young rooster) and his big day…

Happy Go Lucky

Plucky Lucky

Un Lucky

Roast Lucky

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