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There are plenty of people looking for roos to expand their own flocks that rehoming is a perfectly acceptable option for unexpected roos. Why exactly would we toss cockerels that are barely developed into the fryer when other people want them for reproductive purposes and are willing to let...

Again. IF we get straight run, we KNOW there is a chance of getting roos. In which case we re-home them. You seem to be the only person who has an issue with that . I also (as well as literally every chicken owner I know) have gotten a roo or two from an order of sexed female chicks at one point...

Um, the difference is, we may not know that we have roosters when we get them. That's kind of the point of this thread. There would be little possibility of my thinking I'm getting a Chihuahua and ending up with a great Dane by accident and needing to re-home it.

Your comparison makes zero sense. Did I say I "went out and got chickens despite regulations"? I adopted perfectly healthy chicks to prevent them from being culled. If you're asking if I would Foster a perfectly healthy great Dane to prevent him from being euthanized, then my answer is absolutely.

I teach in a rural district and every spring our ag center gives eggs to the campuses to hatch. After hatch, the chicks are either adopted or culled. Our campus hatched 5 chicks and no one wanted them, so I adopted all 5. I live in a "4 max, no roo" area, but I took them all anyways knowing...