Hi All,
I would like to add get some bantams. We have 14 full size hens but I am building another chicken tractor in the hopes of having a flock of bantams. The feed store doesn't have them sexed. You get what you get. I looked online at the hatcheries and they are all straight run for bantams too. I can't have roosters, I live in the city. We have already been there done that and one of my neighbors complained so we had to 'take care' of the Roo to keep the peace.
What do you all do with unwanted Roos?
Laura
Bantams aren't sexed?
eat um, sell them or give them away.
I couldn't get anyone to take my rooster but I suppose I could offer them on our local freecycle. I don't mind eating them but how young can you eat them? If I remember my roo started crowing when he was about 10 weeks old. It wasn't really loud though.
Thanks,
Laura
Yeah, I've always seen bantam chicks sold straight run, too. It would be too bad to have to do that, but....
you should get some silkies. They are very silly.
I did manage to find homes for 4 roosters (same neighbor problem), but I used Craigslist as well as FreeCycle. I got a lot of responses from both--but it was for eating them or (I suspect) using them as bait in cockfighting. Craigslist finally came through with a nice country home with a stable.
I don't get the non-sexing of bantams--is it because the chicks are so small? They do DNA sexing for parrots/parakeets using feathers I think--I wonder if you could get a breeder to do that if you arranged and paid for it. I don't think it is very costly--my $20 parakeet had been sexed that way.