Culling my first birds and a strange question...

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Myhouseisazoo2 said:
Well we did it. Me and Twinnie culled our first bird. It was both horrible and facinating at once.
Horrible as it stunk horribly and was an terribly long process to clean him out (we have never gutted an animal before) and wonderful because we discovered the meaning of claufing (crying and laughing at the same time half out of terror half out of relief), facinating because we now know we can do it if it came to it and discovered that the Black copper Moran roosters we have are not worth the effort it takes to process. They are not very meaty birds at the moment. So we are now trying to sell them as we're certain. Their crowing is driving the neighbors nuts. Got a nibbler hopefully they'll buy em up tonight
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That was exactly my thought when I gave away my 10 little 3 mo Blue egg layers. Too small for meat and 5 were already crowing at 8 weeks. I'm going to be selective at what I process. I want a good return on my effort. If you aren't comfortable with this, look around for someone to help you process it next time. The feed store might know of someone who can train you I found a local BYC buddy who let me come over and observe and help her process a few. I almost gave up but after pondering on it for a few weeks I decided that I didn't like the way she went about it. Axe and skinning. I did it by myself the next time and while it wasn't perfect, by any means, (knife was dull as a butter knife) It got done and I have bought a filleting knife for next time. It does get better. Put the chicken in the freezer and wait a couple of weeks to eat it. Then it's just meat.
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Myhouseisazoo2 said:
I have recently started my own flock unfortunetly many of my birds which I bought as cute few day old puff balls are Roo's. While they are currently not very aggressive they keep mounting my oldest female that is older by almost 6 months (I believe she has stopped laying due to stress as there are about 5 Roos!) I have already decided how I will cull my flock and that I will do it with the help of my twin sister however our youngest sibling whom is 16 and keeping birds in my flock for show (for her FFA school project) is veminant about me telling her I will have to thin the flock of these Roos. I explained the process to her and have already explained that she will not have to help me and Twinnie with this process but she believes that by killen them that I am effectively torturing the birds... Long story short how do I get her to understand that I am not torturing them by killing them?? I apologize if this is on the wrong thread in advance I am still new to back yard chicken and still learning where everything goes.
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Might I suggest reminding her that the only chicken being "tortured" is the older hen putting up with what basically amounts to repeated poultry rape? (Waiting for this comment to be deleted.)
 
Blooie said:
Might I suggest reminding her that the only chicken being "tortured" is the older hen putting up with what basically amounts to repeated poultry rape?  (Waiting for this comment to be deleted.)
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She has thankfully come to terms with the culling issue :) and after having to listen to them for an hour nonstop was very okay with our either they'll be eaten or find em a new home attitude.
Now we'll see how well she does with the rabbits I plan on getting
 

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