How exactly does one "put him in the pot"? Thanks to all the helpful responses here, I've accepted the fact that my roo is unable to be rehabilitated. I won't have a problem chopping off his head because I took on the role of chicken herder with the intent that they would someday become pot...
I have had my roo in "solitary" for over a week now. He was aggressive to me and we had a hen die, I think he may have been too rough with her during mating because all of our other hens are fine. It seemed to me that she had a broken neck. Our roo is RIR and the hen in question is a buff orp...
Hello all! Happy to have found this community! BBG stands for Bees Bunnies and Goats which are the members of our farm in the order we acquired them. The chickens came later! We started with honey bees, but after losing all three hives in the winter of 2013 (the worst winter in a 100 years in...
Hello - From reading other threads, I know that freezer camp is probably imminent in my roo's future, but I was wondering if anyone else has ever seen anything like this. We had 6 hens - 3 RIRs and 3 Golden Orps and our roo of uncertain breed. The RIRs and the roo were all bought together as...