Any advice for wording Ads to try to find new homes for roosters?

[lightchick]

I KNOW that my roos aren't going to get eaten because they went to a hobby farm and I actually bought some more chicks there too.
The person actually said "I can PROMISE you that they won't get butchered". I might get to see them soon because I have to return a chick that turned out to be a boy and get a girl instead (one of the chicks I got from them). They pretty much just take any eggs from their chickens and put them in the incubator. All their chicks are mixed breeds.

 

[bobbi-j]

Glad you have that reassurance. Not everyone is that honorable.

 

[YgritteChick]

By bachelor pad, I meant a separate coop/run area for them where they can't harass your hens. They will get along just fine because you will have removed their reason for fighting (the hens). Of course there will be squabbles, but they get over it. I don't enjoy butchering our chickens. I actually don't do the killing - DH does that part. I hold them, he wields the hatchet. After that's over, I'm fine with it. One more thought - if you get to the point where you think you could put them in the freezer, you could see if there are any commercial processors near you that do poultry. Not all of them do. I had family that took theirs in for processing this year and it cost them about $2 a bird.

I can look into that, a processing place would make it easy. That's a good idea even though I'd feel a little silly. I process deer and cows so I should be able to do chickens just fine, I think I am just too attached to my chickens, lol. Eventually my goal is to process my own chickens with the chickens that I cull out of my flock to keep it happy and productive.

 

[lazy gardener]

Hubby and I just processed 14 birds last weekend. He was the axe and water man, i was the everything else woman. It was a long, tiring weekend. I can guarantee that if i can find someone who will process for a reasonable fee, i'll go that route the next time. Life is too short to give up a whole weekend butchering chickens, when you can have some one else who is well set up do it in a fraction of the time. I find it difficult to imagine any farm that would welcome extra roos. Given the biosecurity issue alone, I'd not welcome any birds from someone else's flock. And if i had a farm big enough to absorb extra roos, I'm sure I'd also have one or more of my own roos taking care of business with my hens. Not to say that there aren't those farms out there who don't take in extra roos, I just can't imagine it. Same with farms and cats/kittens.

 

[bobbi-j]

I can look into that, a processing place would make it easy. That's a good idea even though I'd feel a little silly. I process deer and cows so I should be able to do chickens just fine, I think I am just too attached to my chickens, lol. Eventually my goal is to process my own chickens with the chickens that I cull out of my flock to keep it happy and productive.

Nothing to feel silly about - it's just another step in the process of being able to do it yourself. For some reason, chickens are just different than big game or large livestock.

I get attached, too, but then I have to talk myself out of that. It's easier to process them that way.