Mother Kills Pet Rooster And Makes Chicken Nuggets After It Pecked Her Daughter's Face

"Imagine punishing an animal for doing animal things"

A Mississippi mother's boastful statement about her parental care skills has sparked criticism. A Facebook post by Magan Schmidt has gone viral after she claims the family ate their pet rooster, HeiHei, after he "attacked" her daughter.

Images showing her kid with bleeding pecks to the forehead, cheek, and neck have reappeared on a Magan Schmidt fan page, even though she appears to have removed the original post from her account.

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The post from January 12 received over 6.6K comments and 56,000 shares.

It also has pictures of the child standing next to the bird before the accident and eating nuggets made of HeiHei's hide.

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"Well, it finally happened," Schmidt wrote. "Our mean ole backyard rooster, HeiHei, attacked the baby child!! We were SO lucky that he didn¡¯t do more damage than he did. Half an inch, and she would have lost an eye!"

"Nevertheless, he got what was coming to him!" she declared. "Mama doesn¡¯t play when it comes to her babies. HeiHei nuggets for dinner!"

Facebook users from all over the world flocked to the comments section to debate whether or not HeiHei deserved the alleged death penalty.

A few readers took issue with Schmidt's opening sentence and criticized how she parented her children.

"¡¯ It finally happened¡¯ ¡­ so you were anticipating something bad happening yet, did nothing to prevent it¡­ ok," one person argued. "Why even have a rooster if you¡¯re not going to watch your kid around it?" another wondered.

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"¡®It finally happened¡¯ really sounds like this isn¡¯t the first time your child has had a negative interaction with this roo protecting his coop. If you knew it was an issue, why didn¡¯t you do more to prevent it?" another user.

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"¡­Also to add, anyone that knows anything about raising chickens for livestock knows a full-grown, adult cock is not food. At all. Protection is their only purpose," wrote one person.

"You control your circumstances (pets, children, household, wild animals you choose to possess) which means it¡¯s on you, not the animal," another person wrote to Schmidt. "Very sad."

On the other hand, other people on Facebook defended the protective mother's approach to the situation.

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"We live in a soft world. If you didn¡¯t grow up on a farm or live like this, don¡¯t comment. It¡¯s life. Get over it," wrote one person.

Another one commented, "It¡¯s pretty easy to tell in the comments who has never been around mean roosters before! Some birds make better nuggets,"

Another comment read, "You can do it all right, and some animals are just that way, and when an animal attacks the child, the animal gets put down and used the same way it would have anyway. The expiration date just got moved up,"

"Most of these people on here obviously don¡¯t have chickens or roosters," a user proclaimed. "They are raised for you to eat and collect eggs. She had a bad rooster. He moved to the front of the line that day." "Good for you, Mama!! I¡¯m glad she enjoyed the fresh meat!! Don¡¯t let all these other negative comments get to you," they added.

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