etiquette on culling to eat and age ??

[shelbyedith]

So we got two duckinga to add to our flock in spring and they are already huge, one looks to be peking and one looks to be half pekeing and halfblack/green (malard?) they are in with my chickens and they live in the same run but now they're starting to tear the run up a bit and I fully intended on building them a pool, but now that they're bigger and I'm wondering if I should save the chicken space and cull them to eat. They're only about 5 months old I think maybe 6 months old. Is it wrong to eat them that young and I also have a rooster that's about the same age is that old enough to kill him and get him to because I already have roosters and he isnt as big as id like to do it but they are picking on him.
Thoughts?

 

[bobbi-j]

There is absolutely nothing "wrong" with harvesting an animal for meat, no matter what the age. I'm not familiar with ducks. Depending on breed, your young cockerel may not put on much more meat anyway. This is all a part of "flock management". Keeping your numbers to a manageable amount, and as a result keeping the rest of the flock healthy and happy.