The way you describe it is what I was thinking and even hoping for. The little cockerel is 4 months old. I do have 2 cockerels, both penned in their own run. One of them I am planning on processing and should have already done so, but things just keep popping up, like the severely cold weather...
Ding ding ding! You hit the nail on the head. My DH works with him and kind of talked this up, not knowing what was involved and certainly not being the one to do the work. He loves our Buffs and I guess he was thinking we could breed our two hens to him. What my DH doesn’t know is our two BO...
A friend of mine (yep, the friends we had over one Sunday to convince them to start keeping chickens only an hour after I had processed my first cockerel, https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-deed-is-done-my-flock-is-now-at-peace.74152/) now has a little BO cockerel he must get rid of...