Those are great article ideas!
May I suggest...
"Pruning your flock" or "Chicken Math - Subtraction"
How to choose your most productive, best quality flock members to maximize efficiency and space / wellbeing of your chickens. Including suggestions for preparing emotionally for the removal of less useful birds.
Personal note: I'm at a stage with too many roosters and they happen to be nice, beautiful birds ... which is making it so much harder than it ever has been before!
I rehomed 2 Olive Egger pullets just yesterday that I had intended to keep because they were the sweetest, most trusting girls... I felt horribly guilty about it as if I had taken Babe the pig to market but that was $50, the buyer really wanted them, plus the $50 for the other, less personable OE sisters earlier in the week, and I honestly have no desire for green eggs or feather legs when I like blue eggs. Ack, why did they have to be so sweet? What if they are unhappy or get picked on? (sorry, done sniffling) Did I do the right thing??
May I suggest...
"Pruning your flock" or "Chicken Math - Subtraction"
How to choose your most productive, best quality flock members to maximize efficiency and space / wellbeing of your chickens. Including suggestions for preparing emotionally for the removal of less useful birds.
Personal note: I'm at a stage with too many roosters and they happen to be nice, beautiful birds ... which is making it so much harder than it ever has been before!
I rehomed 2 Olive Egger pullets just yesterday that I had intended to keep because they were the sweetest, most trusting girls... I felt horribly guilty about it as if I had taken Babe the pig to market but that was $50, the buyer really wanted them, plus the $50 for the other, less personable OE sisters earlier in the week, and I honestly have no desire for green eggs or feather legs when I like blue eggs. Ack, why did they have to be so sweet? What if they are unhappy or get picked on? (sorry, done sniffling) Did I do the right thing??