do you have a hard time?

[rancher hicks]

Anyone here have a hard time parting with chickens that you don't really want. I have a Rd/blk friz bantam hen. While I can't breed her to the roo who came w/her from the hatchery I just can't bring myself to part with her. They don't lay big eggs. I do have a red hen w/o friz. She does have a blk wing feather but that's it. The roo has friz and no sign of blk. Any suggestions?

 

[BushHog936]

Just realize that your chicken has no real emotional attatchment to you, then just do whatever it was you had to do with her.

 

[rancher hicks]

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Well I know that silly. It's the emotional attachement I have to her. Or is it something else?

 

[LegHorn-BusHorn]

I, too am having a hard time trying to figure out what to do with my rooster. I really like him, but he keeps dragging my little prissy around by the neck. I know its normal and maybe he will get better but I am at a loss as what to do with him, if I do decide. I have the same type of attachment as your describing. He is a beautiful bird.

don't you agree?

 

[BushHog936]

"Well I know that silly. It's the emotional attachement I have to her. Or is it something else?"

Silly, I understand that. I just mean if you realize that your 'beloved' doesn't feel the same.. maybe that should make it easier.

 

[onthespot]

Leg-Horn, if that roo is bothering you with his behavior, just pen him separately for a few months and let him get bigger. Then when you turn him out and he grabs her neck, she will submit and it will not be a rodeo, just quick, some feathers rustling and her walking away ruffling her feathers to put them all back in place.

BushHog, the ones I get sentimental about are the ones that have given me chicks that I liked how they turned out. The rest are just birds, future din-din.

 

[BushHog936]

"the ones that have given me chicks that I liked how they turned out"

This makes sense.