When you get a straight run it is inevitable to end up with some males. My first straight run I ended up with 7 roosters. Four of them were delicious. This time around, I wanted to be sure, so I made positive they would all be female.
I am self-taught on culling roosters. I have to say unless they are mean as snakes there isn't a lot of satisfaction in the act, but the end result from dinners, to green chili chicken enchiladas, to chicken noodle soup is pretty tasty and can't compare with anything you get in the store.
The first time is the hardest, like a lot of things. It also gives you a closeness to your food source, and the need to use everything. There is significance in taking a life, and the desire to do it as humanely as possible. This is in direct dichotomy to the Tyson companies that treat their birds badly, and then slaughter them wholesale. When you take your own, you know what it has been eating, and living. And if you do go that route, pull the food for 24 hours. It is a lot less messier that way. Also, I find that putting them upside down, sedates them somewhat, it also gets the majority of the blood out of the carcass. If you have ever cleaned a deer you know blood is slippery and gets in the way. A pretty well drained rooster solves a lot of that.
