Well it looks like 75% of my Chicks I ordered from McMurray are Roos, Dang it! Im in love with the little critters ,but what is a Mama to do with this many bantam roos? Heres my black Cochin and the black Spangled Cochin,I have a Barred Rock,and Buff cochin also, An Andalusian,and a beautiful Cornish that hasnt fully matured yet, it could be a hen but Ill need a mate for it too!
'E', your chicks are great!! I hope you will find a good home for the roos - when I had too many guys, all young adults, my chicken yard was a mess, fighting, both the hens and roos, they broke out all the time because none of them were happy. So, I rehomed the mischief makers and the difference is rewarding, to say the least. I will do it again, if necessary. Of course I'm most fortunate that my grands have friends that have our babies. And, I have a guy that works for me that took home a group of babies, about 10 weeks old, all Bantams, because we have a cat that was stalking them, and the stress was killing me. So, we boxed them up in a dog crate and I sent food and a larger crate until he can build his chicken yard. Interesting, I've thought, my roos, three regular sized and one Bantam, used to fight between their fences - but now with one roos on each side, with an appropriate number of hens, it's a different place. I have discovered that one of my Sultans is a roo, but he and the Bantam roo get along fine, I love the Sultans. I also have a new Bantam hen that is pretty and tiny, a girlie girl and she is our new fav. Good luck with your roos, I hope they all do well...
Eufala, wish I could see them! I sure hope you have good luck finding a place for them. You certainly did not buy them to go into the stock pot for Sunday dinner. Good luck. BAM
I know how you feel. I purchased 7 young chicks a while back and I think 6 of them are roosters. I've had such a hard time telling who is the rooster though, so haven't done anything about it until now. (I caught 2 crowing) It was getting to be a 3 ring circus with all the bickering and squawling going on lately in the coop. Fortunately, mine are big chickens, so 2 went to the backyard butcher shoppe yesterday. I dressed them out myself and can honestly say that they are some of the nicest looking chicken fryers I've ever seen. They are the dual purpose Buff Orpingtons. Hated to do it, but they were really starting to chow down on the feed, and causing so much stress in the pen. I have too many bantam roos too, but no point in butchering them, not worth it. I may have to take them to the poultry auction. Good luck with yours
My hubby's mom wants to kill and eat her two mean hens. We all want them gone. I love chicken but I'll just have to get mine at Tysons, If I didn't know it, it wouldn't bother me at all...
Yep, I understand completely! I have had to kill and clean chickens in my life time too! I will have to say its the best "eatin" in the world, but to handraise from the get go ,then have to kill one is hard!
I was going to put Hard Rocks Mama, mama Barred Rock and that crazy Astrolorpe in the pot,until I saw how wonderful a Mama she is! Astrolorpe , Im still thinking on, shes a good layer but she's crazy as a bedbug!
As for all the Roos so far they are still getting along well . But just before sunrise every morning now we wake to some of the most awful funny squawking and creaking you ever heard! Im going to load up the ones Im not to interested in raising, and take them to a swap or the flea market in Athens Ga. There are many sellars and buyers there interested in purebred bantams! My main goal is to find pretty girls for my little Guys!
how much does a butcher charge for one chicken to be butchered. how much per chicken?
It's funny. I live near a Tyson's plant, and what I see there has convinced me that butchering my own chickens or getting chicken from friends who do is the only way I'm eating chicken any more. I know *we'll* give them good lives and be humane at the end.
