Arizona Chickens

[starri33]

You can wait until dark to snag them off the roost and hope that you didn't grab a hen instead. I just use a fishing net in the daytime to catch the extra roosters, when I can see that it's not a hen. That way I am only removing the boy's that I don't want to use for my breeder's.

Thankfully I don't have to worry about hen or roo as it's going to be both, I've waited on hearing out of my friend about the additional chickens I am inheriting and she said anytime. So I am going to see if I can do the fish net/ trap in the coop / nighttime snag method, there are 22 of them..lol.

 

[starri33]

I just worry about giving them heart failure, I know it will probably throw them off their egg laying, I've got no problem with a week or a month of waiting for eggs.

 

[BlueBaby]

I just worry about giving them heart failure, I know it will probably throw them off their egg laying, I've got no problem with a week or a month of waiting for eggs.

The hen's that I recently moved over to my neighbor's are laying egg's. We just grabbed them and walked them over there. They started laying egg's again after a couple of day's or so.

 

[starri33]

Glad to hear that.. waiting for egg's isn't a problem my girls that I have now of laying age 12 of them are starting to give me 6 eggs per day.. Nobody out of this batch and the ones I have now are going to end up as chicken and dumplings, I might add dual purpose later.. Seems the most popular besides the wait till dark and snatch off the perch, seem to be chase into the coop and catch them there.

 

[starri33]

It's going to take a lot for me to make one into chicken and dumplings even if that is exactly what they were bought for.. I'll admit to being a softy, especially if it means hurting someone or something. Spiders are a different subject..lol.

 

[BlueBaby]

@starri33 What's the difference? If you ever buy chicken at a store or a restaurant, someone else killed that chicken for you, and you still eat it. But, you do not know how that chicken lived it's life or what it was fed before it was killed for you. Maybe I should have used the word culled instead of killed? It can be the same thing though.

Edit: If you keep hatching out those egg's, you are going to end up with half of them being boy's. Most people do not want the cockerels or rooster's, so you are going to have a very hard time in re-homing them, even if you offer them for free. I have had to cull many of the boy's that I have hatched. I will only keep the boy or boy's that I see something special in for my breeding program. By the way, chicken and dumpling's does sound good with this weather that we are having.

 

[FeatherPugs]

@BlueBaby - just keeping busy with 'stuff' that is forever piling up. Fun things like closets and taxes and stuff! THEN I truck out to the yard to try to catch up when its less wet and somewhat sunny. It has been so, so wet.
@starri33 I prefer taking them from the roost at night. I usually know who I'm selling, culling or whatever. Sometimes its for medical stuff or monthly check and doing it at night just works better for me. I just get my flashlight and go. When I was coop training from the brooder that has a roost, I moved a dozen plus girls from the little girl coop to the big girl coop every night for almost 2 weeks then one day I went out there and everyone was in the big girl coop!! They will be fine moving them at night.

 

[BlueBaby]

@FeatherPugs Over here it's not so much of being wet. The ground is still soaking it up ok. That wind is pretty chilly today, cutting right through my sweater that I wore over the top of my t-shirt. We are supposed to get a couple of night's where it will drop down to freezing temps.

 

[starri33]

@starri33 What's the difference? If you ever buy chicken at a store or a restaurant, someone else killed that chicken for you, and you still eat it. But, you do not know how that chicken lived it's life or what it was fed before it was killed for you. Maybe I should have used the word culled instead of killed? It can be the same thing though.

Edit: If you keep hatching out those egg's, you are going to end up with half of them being boy's. Most people do not want the cockerels or rooster's, so you are going to have a very hard time in re-homing them, even if you offer them for free. I have had to cull many of the boy's that I have hatched. I will only keep the boy or boy's that I see something special in for my breeding program. By the way, chicken and dumpling's does sound good with this weather that we are having.

Yeah, I know..lol, I'll probably cry the first time I have to whack one.. cockerels/Roosters I've already decided will be offered up for re-home, if no one is interested, it's chicken pot pie or chicken and dumplings. The girls will eventually end up as pot pie too.. I just don't know that I could do it to this bunch. The only breeding program I have is hatching..lol, they are all mutts.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yeah, I know..lol, I'll probably cry the first time I have to whack one.. cockerels/Roosters I've already decided will be offered up for re-home, if no one is interested, it's chicken pot pie or chicken and dumplings. The girls will eventually end up as pot pie too.. I just don't know that I could do it to this bunch. The only breeding program I have is hatching..lol, they are all mutts.

The girl's are easy to re-home, but most people do not want the boy's. Keep on hatching, because those boy's will make good tasting mutt chicken and dumpling's once you get over run with them.