Alabamians: "Trade Day" vs auction?

[Airyaman]

There is an auction about 1 hr. away from me tomorrow night. Never been to one. Supposed to be for poultry and smaller animals. Clay County.

There are also "trade days" this weekend.

I really need to find a different place for my 5 Black Australorp cockerels. I haven't been able to find a processor and I simply can't do it myself. These guys have been good this whole time. I've never been able to kill anything larger than bugs intentionally.

If I go to auction, will someone buy five BA cockerels (18 weeks)?

Or do I go to "trade day"? Never been to one of those either.

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Here that's the good thing about auctions. Birds don't come back home. They sell no matter what. The negative is that they sell no matter what. Here a bird can go for $1 if it's nothing special.
I never go to auction looking to get a good price. I go because the bird needs to be gone and that's the quick, easy guaranteed way.

 

[Airyaman]

I'm good with making nothing and losing money on these guys. This was never a business venture.

If I had the space (as in protection for them from predators, I have plenty of space for them to live in the woods and attract predators), this would be no problem. They would be the first 5 of the bachelor flock. But the other guys I have going into that flock would beat them to hell and back. I'm not ready for two bachelor flocks.