Thanks for all the advice y'all!
Thankfully I did not have to separate them, or butcher anyone, thanks to my awesome friend @MGG who knew someone who could take all eight. I just dropped them all off yesterday.
So I now just have my two little bantam cochin cockerels who are very sweet 🥰
They're on CL, FB, and the next-door app. With clear photos, information on age, breed, and where they're from.
Not a single person has contacted me about them.
I've been trying to find poultry auctions too.
That's what I am trying to figure out with this thread.
I'm actively trying to rehome them, but until then I don't know what to do since they're all the same age, I don't have a place to separate them unless I keep them in the run, and I'm not able to butcher them.
Yes, I'm aware. I kicked...
Yeah I don't want to mess things up any more.
Trust me, I'm still unhappy about that one being separated in the first place 😩
I *almost* want to grill some of them now but I couldn't bring myself to kill them.
I just don't know anyone who would be interested in buying, or even eating some.
He's doing just fine, his head feathers are growing back nicely too.
The automatic door opened up on its own a day or two ago while he was in the coop 🤦♀️
But none of them bothered him and they just went to roost. I've still been keeping him in the kennel at night though.
Meanwhile, two of...
I'm currently trying to rehome four of the cockerels. No luck yet.
As for the bullied cockerel, he is a Polish and his head feathers haven't been able to fully come in due to being picked on in the brooder.
At first it was not just the other cockerels who were picking on him. Which ever ones...