COCKEREL QUESTIONS
So, my 5.5 week old straight run chicks are mostly showing their sex. What do y'all do with extra cockerels? Last time we raised one and gave him to a friend who was butchering his own to add to his freezer. We're a little closer to these fellas. Roscoe-aka-Tinkerbell was brooded by his surrogate BO moms (plural not accidental!) so we didn't get that close to him. These we've brooded ourselves and the girls are a bit more attached.
We have these cockerels (from a McMurray mix):
Golden-penciled Hamburg
Blue (?) Andalusian--probably this breed, probably cockerel
EE--possibly male
Sultan--possibly male, but no comb development at nearly 6 weeks. We might keep this one. What a sweety!
And these bantams:
1, possibly 2 blue cochin bantams
1, possibly 2 partridge Wyandotte bantams
1 quail Antwerp bantam
The Wyandottes and the quail antwerp are really mean to our Sultan. I will probably keep these two breeds separate as they are so much smaller, but we will probably only keep the quail antwerp, who is a sweety in the vein of Dudley Dursley.
We are not against keeping one or two, but not this many. Finding homes? Does anybody caponize anymore? Not knowing roo anatomy, does this actually sterilize them? Do they lose some of their aggressiveness? Nevermind?
Edited by SweetSilver - 4/25/12 at 8:37am