Feeling awful for culling my rooster

[sbergstrom09]

I don't do the butchering anymore, figure I'm old enough to have the right to pass it off to younger ones. But when I did I found putting them in a cone and then just cutting their head off was quicker. As soon as you hang them upside down, they get quiet. And I never just sliced their neck, but took some heavy cutters and cut the head off. No second chance. No undue suffering for the rooster.

I've had 2 roosters actually fight to the death, and the mean one won. We had 24 hens at the time, but the 2 roosters still did not want to share. So I don't keep more than 1, even with 90 hens. So I can pick the nice one. Course I'm after the eggs not the meat. I don't need a rooster at all, but my current one is such a huge gentle grey rooster, that I kept him.

Thank you, I don’t like the broomstick method and was planning on the cone with the other 3 Roos I have; for me to make sure 100% they’re gone. If I place a small cloth around their face after they’re in the cone do you think that would help keep them calm? We may have to pull the necks down for a faster cut and I don’t want to cause them extra stress but I have not done the cone method before. I want their death as quickly as possible and do NOT want them to suffer. I feel bad enough culling them for meat….this is my first year and I want it to go quicker copy and as painless as possible for the Roos

 

[McChooky]

Thank you, I don’t like the broomstick method and was planning on the cone with the other 3 Roos I have; for me to make sure 100% they’re gone. If I place a small cloth around their face after they’re in the cone do you think that would help keep them calm? We may have to pull the necks down for a faster cut and I don’t want to cause them extra stress but I have not done the cone method before. I want their death as quickly as possible and do NOT want them to suffer. I feel bad enough culling them for meat….this is my first year and I want it to go quicker copy and as painless as possible for the Roos

Hold them long enough to calm them down and do the deed quickly.They don't have a clue what's going on unless you do it in front of them before their turn comes

 

[Altairsky]

At least your roosters were jerks.
Mine are the most gentlemen things in this world. And I have to cull them because I can only have 1 roo. I have no idea how to chose 1 to keep out of the bunch.

 

[SnackMeat]

At least your roosters were jerks.
Mine are the most gentlemen things in this world. And I have to cull them because I can only have 1 roo. I have no idea how to chose 1 to keep out of the bunch.

If you have the time and space, it can be worth it to either isolate them one by one to watch flock dynamics, or remove all by one and each one gets a day to show their stuff.


But if they really are that good, you might find a taker online. I had the sweetest cockerel who was really growing up to be quite gorgeous and I practically had to beg someone to take him, but naturally they also wanted to take my two nasty bully sex pests because they had the patterns they wanted for their flock. At least all of your's are nice.