Why don't people eat roosters?

Question

You never see rooster at the supermarket. Or do they sell it but just call it chicken? Does anyone know? Thanks

Answer 1

they do, its just they don't mass produce roosters, since they are extremely hostile to each other... thats why there are c**k fights.  most hen houses have 1 rooster, to keep the hens laying eggs.  any more cause them to fight.  

Some ethnic food places carry it, but its usually tougher, and used only in stewed foods, one of the most popular being Coq au vin.

Answer 2

i don't like the taste of c**k

Answer 3

Its because rooster meat is not the same as chicken. The meat is alot tougher and doesn't taste the same. A lot of people wouldn't buy it because it won't be good.

Answer 4

Capon is a castrated male chicken.

I remember eating those and seems to me they were a larger chicken.

Maybe this is contrary to your question because if he is castrated maybe he is not considered a rooster.

Makes sense to raise them without them fighting to de-male them.  

Do they still sell capons?

Answer 5

It's called CAPON!

Answer 6

Of course they do! In fact, most chicken at the supermarket is from a rooster, because that's all they are good for:eating. Hen's are used to get eggs....By the way chicken is an animal, not male or female. A male chicken is a rooster and a female rooster is a hen.

Answer 7

Well I ama former chef from Canada and while some are right some are way off, at the time of hatching they desexed and they separate the 2, most male chicks do not make it, but some are kept for meat production, and "Yes" they still do sell "Capons".

But it is a darker stringier meat, most goes to the production of chicken products like nugget, and other foods, laying hens at the end of there 18 month egg baring term are used for soups and the same products, you may occasionally see in the meat counter and small chicken labelled as a stewing hen, that is the old hens from the egg production facilities, most of the chicken for production is female but they are not allowed to develop there egg capacity and are only kept for 8weeks to 2 months depending on if there roasters or fryers style chickens, the older the bigger.

Answer 8

Oh they do! Actually most of chicken-meat is rooster!!

The roosters are more likely to end up as chicken meat, because hens can be sold alive to egg-production.

The chicken are killed before their gender-typical traits are developed :)

In this country, braised breast of young rooster (especially from the island Bornholm) is the fancy way of serving chicken at restaurants.

Answer 9

Well it's one of the few things that is about as tough as a wad of rubber. I know they sell it at specialty stores but it's just not used often. Best use might be with a pressure cooker or cooking it in a crock pot and making a type of stew with it.

Answer 10

Its because rooster is just DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Answer 11

I asked my grandfather the same thing along time ago.  He used to live on a farm as a child; he told me that he thought it was because it isn't very good meat.  they don't get bulky enough and it is grissley/ fatty meat.  Don't know if its true but thats what i was told.

Answer 12

People don't prefer hard meat. I don't either.