I have plenty of room and I pay for the feed and the housing the chickens were gifts from my grandma but my mom was raised when u just didn't have a pet chicken she think if they don't produce the should go
I gotcha now.....
Well....I'd say it's not a bad thing to cull a few for the freezer.
And keep a few favorites as pets.
I haven't got to the point you are now, am i am sure when mine stop producing it is going to be a very sad decision for me but that being said.... I am pretty sure they will end up on my table to feed my family.
If they lived a nice healthy happy live there really isn't inching wrong with cull them.
So you are saying you have 25 PET chickens that aren't producing eggs?