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Martha Jensen

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Mar 4, 2012
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I am just sick. I bought chicks from Concord Feed in Pleasant Hill and there *was* a sign up reading something to the effect that 90% of the chicks were female "guaranteed". Three of my seven are roosters. I gave up one last week and it just killed me. I went in to Concord Feed today and the sign was gone, but when I tried to talk to them about it they just didn't care.

This is so wrong. What happens to all roosters when people can't keep them? I have two Americanas that absolutely *adore* each other and one is male. Now what?

You can purchase chickens there that are a few months old; if you don't want any unhappy surprises that's the way to do it.
 
We almost always end up with at least one rooster when we buy pullets (unless we actually try to get one). Some we have kept, some we dispatched and some we ate. Our store does offer to refund your money for the non-pullets, since they are always more expensive. However, my DH knows the manager at our farm store and he told her that we would be returning any roos this year.
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I found someone who rescues them, but how many can one person take care of? She picked up five the day I was there to meet her! And if I even thought of harming them I'd have nightmares of chickens chasing me. Yeah, strange, but true.
 
HI and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan
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Most extra roosters are quite honestly going to end up on a dinner table. That is one of the reasons for raising dual-purpose birds. I f you buy sexed pullets, there still were the same number of cockerel chicks hatched at the same time that were either put down immediately or raised to be food. The advantage of raising the birds yourself and having them processed (or doing it yourself) is to have good quality food, raised humanely, with no added hormones, medications or injected salt solutions. Although it is hard to think of, you may be better off giving the cockerels away and understand that once they are gone, you will have no control of their future. Hope you are not too sad.
 
Hello and welcome!

This is why I'm a bit hesitant to get an incubator and start hatching eggs. We are going to try cornish x next year, but that will be different than the layers I brood in my house for over a month. Then again, I am not a vegetarian, so I guess I need to get over it.
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Hi and :welcome from Ohio. So glad you joined. That is why I order my chicks from Meyer hatchery. I have never received a cockeral when I ordered pullets and when I order all cockeral meat birds, I never get any hens. :thumbsup
 
I have been a vegetarian for close to 40 years; no chicken, no fish, nothing with a mama. I do realize the vast majority of people consider a chicken food, but for me they are pets. I last two I got are Americanas that follow me around, let me pick them up and come over to be pet. They hang out together, sleep together and on (that's 50%, Concord Feed!) is a rooster. Can't separate them. Can't keep the rooster. And now 1muttsfan has me worried the rooster rescue lady might not be exactly rescuing them.

My fun project is not much fun.
 
Throughout a dozen-year chicken hobby I feel fortunate to say that I have only gotten pullets. :p I do now have a rooster, a RIR/Amauracana, who is a sweetheart. We have him by choice. My ten-year old daughter, Annie, has raised him very well.
 

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