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Chicks_keetkeeper
In the Brooder
- Jul 14, 2023
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I am allowed but I’m pushing my flock limits . I have my RIR and a beautiful Araucana (breeder sourced) as well as a BC Maran that take care of the girls. The BC is still a little guy and he will grow up with this flock.Are you allowed to keep roosters where you are? Cockerels won't necessarily keep a pleasant Disposition after they mature, but I've taken a chance on a a couple and been in luck.
Just curious as to what you might do with 'em if it turns out a roo! Dinner, maybe?
As for the other cockerels, I post them on Craigslist for free and give them to families who use them for sustenance. I’m personally not going to harvest a chicken I hatched and cuddled but I’m fine with other people doing it. I hatch cinnamon queens (Rhode Island white with a red rooster sire) and the hatch sex linked, so I have a few families that are happy to take the cockerels and use all parts. I’m a “circle of life” type person…And I hunt wild birds and process them for meat….
But if I hatched it, I don’t want to hatchet…. Ya know?