Craigslist ad for free chickens is working!!

[shellyga]

I have a small flock now but know I will be in a position with extra roos and old laying hens in the next year or two (since I just started hatching eggs). my dream neighbor would be an angel that would process them for halves (or even ..2 for you..one for me). I have difficulty killing anything although I do enjoy my fried chicken..lol..

Congrats on getting free chickens for the price of gas.. with these economic times.. you are wise to use resources -- helps the other person out too.

Shelly

 

[booker81]

Hee hee...each person has asked me if I process them myself, and I see the gears turning when I say yes. If they ask, I'd be happy to help show them the ropes or even do a few in return for a few myself!

 

[shellyga]

Darn Booker.. you need to come take a vacation down South.. say in Georgia.. a little south of Atlanta!!

Shelly

 

[wood&feathers]

To the OP - Did you save any feathers from the Wyandottes? A good secondary use for such is feathers sold to crafters or fishermen. Us Borax to cure a degreased neck or hackle skin.

 

[darkmatter]

wood&feathers :

To the OP - Did you save any feathers from the Wyandottes? A good secondary use for such is feathers sold to crafters or fishermen. Us Borax to cure a degreased neck or hackle skin.

Hah! had a coworker who tied flies and was showing me his sources for feathers------it was the neck skin/feathers from Roosters, dried out flat in a somewhat triangle shape. He told me he paid $60 each for these from a fly-tying catalog. The next time I butchered my suplus Roos, I cured 12 necks of feathers of them with borax for the curing-------it looked exactly like the ones he showed me except for the colors. Mine had many different "mutt" colors, I gave them to him for free, figured I gave him a few years worth of fly tying material. He kinda sniffed at them and said they weren't the right specs for colors for the catalog directions of tying a specific named model of fly! I didn't ask for money and he didn't refuse them, I won't do it again for free! (I guess you can't tie flies without specific color grades?)​

 

[celticfarmer]

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Sooner or later someone was going to ruin the whole thing for me. Posting this here is like going to the bar and telling everyone where the fish are biting.

I hope you didn't just increase my competition.

 

[halo]

Good for you....I sometimes cringe when I see the ads for people giving roosters away "not for food". Times are tough now, tougher than a lot of people realize, and its so resourceful of you to gather up all those roosters and put them in the fridge. The same as people hunting deer and turkey to put in their freezers, I think its wonderful.

 

[booker81]

Update: I reposted my ad on Craigslist again, and I'm up to 10 roosters for pickup this weekend! All large fowl so far, woo!!!!

At this rate I won't have to raise any for meat next year, I'll just let other folks do the raising

Some of them have already asked if they can keep my email for future roos they raise

 

[halo]

Have you gone to pick any up that were obviously sick or from an obviously sick flock? What would you do if you did?

 

[eKo_birdies]

that is so wonderful... i'm really really happy this is all working out so well for you!!!

Edited: like halo said, how would you handle it if you saw an obviously unhealthy situation?