Arizona Chickens

[springvalley123]

True, but that is for confirmed infection you are trying to sterilize everything. You can do a foot bath with household bleach 1 cup to a gallon of water if you include a scrub brush to get any stuck bits out. Way cheaper than the foot bath disinfectants they sell.

plus you probably want to save the heavy duty for a genuine infection, and not help the bugs develop resistance by using something too weak to kill the worst..

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Rolex's comb is healing nicely. I want to wait until it's well healed before reintroducing him to the flock. Then he needs to get to work fertilizing some eggs for me!

 

[BlueBaby]

Rolex's comb is healing nicely. I want to wait until it's well healed before reintroducing him to the flock. Then he needs to get to work fertilizing some eggs for me!

I wish it was Thursday already. This Colored Dorking rooster would be able to go up there and join your Silver Gray Dorking hen's that you recently sold. I'm sort of hoping that they will also take these last 6 young layer's that I have so they can use them for egg's. Then it will just be trying to rehome 3 Welsh Harlequin duck's. After that, all that I would have left here would be the Bielefelder's, and those I will have to grow out still. I have 3 cockerel's, and 11 pullet's in them.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I wish it was Thursday already. This Colored Dorking rooster would be able to go up there and join your Silver Gray Dorking hen's that you recently sold. I'm sort of hoping that they will also take these last 6 young layer's that I have so they can use them for egg's. Then it will just be trying to rehome 3 Welsh Harlequin duck's. After that, all that I would have left here would be the Bielefelder's, and those I will have to grow out still. I have 3 cockerel's, and 11 pullet's in them.

Who knows? They might.

Now if only someone would want Gabriel!

 

[BlueBaby]

Now if only someone would want Gabriel!

You will most likely have to lower the price that you are asking for him, since he has been showing sign's of aggression towards you. No one is going to enjoy having to eat a rooster at that price, but eat him they will if he attack's them too. Sad to say, but that is the life of mean rooster's.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

You will most likely have to lower the price that you are asking for him, since he has been showing sign's of aggression towards you. No one is going to enjoy having to eat a rooster at that price, but eat him they will if he attack's them too. Sad to say, but that is the life of mean rooster's.

Well, lately he's been backing off. I'm hoping it was just teenage hormones. And I've been trying to keep chicken prices just above what they'd pay for a chicken in the store, so they'll think twice about having to buy and process one if it's cheaper to buy an already processed one at the store. I would hate to see anybody eaten. And he is an unusual color for the breed.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, lately he's been backing off. I'm hoping it was just teenage hormones. And I've been trying to keep chicken prices just above what they'd pay for a chicken in the store, so they'll think twice about having to buy and process one if it's cheaper to buy an already processed one at the store. I would hate to see anybody eaten. And he is an unusual color for the breed.

I have culled mean rooster's in the past that attacked me. I'd rather cull a mean rooster then to push my problem unto someone else by rehoming. My good boy's do get rehomed though if I need to thin the boy's out, and the boy's are always given for free.

Edit: Unfortunately, some of the good boy's here are sometimes culled also, because no one else needed a rooster.

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

I have culled mean rooster's in the past that attacked me. I'd rather cull a mean rooster then to push my problem unto someone else by rehoming. My good boy's do get rehomed though if I need to thin the boy's out, and the boy's are always given for free.

Edit: Unfortunately, some of the good boy's here are sometimes culled also, because no one else needed a rooster.

That's sad. I hate to see it happen. But that's just how it is, I guess. Maybe I'll lower Gabriel's price on Craigslist to $10. I'm not out to get $, just avoid the stewpot.

And my goodest good boy has pretty much became a pet. Not sure what I'll do if any of his sons take after daddy that way. Rolex is polite and respectful, so he's off to a good start.

 

[BlueBaby]

That's sad. I hate to see it happen. But that's just how it is, I guess. Maybe I'll lower Gabriel's price on Craigslist to $10. I'm not out to get $, just avoid the stewpot.

And my goodest good boy has pretty much became a pet. Not sure what I'll do if any of his sons take after daddy that way. Rolex is polite and respectful, so he's off to a good start.

Yes, it is sad, but a rooster need's to be nice in order to try to keep his own self out of the stewpot.

 

[CaroleW]

Yes, it is sad, but a rooster need's to be nice in order to try to keep his own self out of the stewpot.

Nice and needed by someone for their flock goals, unfortunately, there are always more than enough roos thus the adage "breed the best and eat the rest". IF you didn't have enough roos to pick from then your flock's future generations decline in quality and maybe even quantity if your few roos can't produce.

I have to harvest some roos soon but I'm glad to be able to pick the best and to know they have all had a better life than most roos ever have a chance to live.