‘I Did it as Nicely as I Could!’ Pete Hegseth Explains to Fox & Friends How He Shot His Rooster Dead With a 9 MM

There is a steep learning curve when it comes to homesteading — perhaps best evidenced by Pete Hegseth regaling his Fox News colleagues on how hard it was to kill his rooster.

Hegseth appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning with his weekend compatriot Will Cain and discussed the challenges of making ends meet in the current economic climate. The segment, hosted by Ainsley Earhardt, was pegged to a recent Wall Street Journal report focused on how Americans are now turning to gardening, hunting, and extreme couponing to make ends meet.

Earhardt spoke of growing up with a freezer full of venison meat before asking Hegseth and Cain to share their thoughts from their home studios in Tennessee and Texas, respectively. What wasn’t mentioned? The three of them easily make well over seven figures a year, and extreme couponing is not a necessary activity for any of them. But I digress.

Hegseth revealed he moved his family to the Nashville area from New Jersey during Covid and started homesteading because he didn’t “want the government controlling my life.” He then explained that he was “more prepared now for some of these sticker shocks in the world” because his hen house produces eggs.

But Cain didn’t let Hegseth go without forcing him to share some challenges he had with his project, asking him, “Keeping all those chickens alive?”

Hegseth self-deprecatingly obliged, spoke about the unique challenges of getting a rooster/chicken ratio wrong, then spoke about how he eventually offed a rooster, Tony Soprano-style, with a nine-millimeter gun.

You can take the kid out of New Jersey, but apparently, you can’t take the New Jersey out of the kid.

Watch above via Fox News.