Meah Shearim – A four-legged chicken born in a Jerusalem slaughter house has started a religious debate regarding its kosher label, which can only be determined once it is slaughtered, according to local media.
The twelve-toed chicken awaited its fate in a cage on the floor of Yoel Kroish family’s slaughter house, waiting for local rabbis to decide whether or not the animal was kosher, the Internet news agency NTN24 reported.
If the legs are tied together, according to local rabbis, the chicken is not kosher. This they said could only be determined by slaughtering the animal.
“I don’t know, for now we will give it to the rabbis to check if it is kosher or not. If it’s kosher, we will slaughter it, if not, we will see what to do,” Kroish said.
However, the chicken may survive if Kroish decides to go ahead with his plan and sell the chicken to the highest bidder, media reports said.
(Source: Reuters)
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5 Responses
Let it go! No sense taking a chance on a chicken where there is a question that once it is slaughtered it will end up not being kosher.
I do not understand what the question is. We only use birds and animals of which we have a mesorah. Does anyone have a mesorah for a four legged bird?
Aryeh Zelasko
Beit Shemesh
Aryeh, we only use _species_ for which we have a mesorah. No one questions whether this is a chicken. The question is whether it’s a trefah.
There is not enough meat on the hind legs to make this mutation worth breeding on a commercial scale.
I think the rabbis looking at this chicken should bring Colonel Sanders into the discussion.