Help me be strong .....

[StarBop]

So how hard is it to rehome a pullet or a roo? Let's say I go get 6 more chicks. Could I let them grow and keep only my favorites? Do people do this? What do you do with the ones you don't want? Sell them, eat them? The guy I got the blrw said he would help me with the Roos if I end up with a bunch. Pretty sure he will butcher them if they aren't up to his breeding standard, and that's okay with me. I'm really curious what most people do though.
Thanks!

 

[CarolinaHen]

You will have no problem finding homes for pullets or hens. Cockerels and roosters can be more difficult though.

 

[ocap]

all this cockerel talk reminds me to take one out of the freezer (already cooked) for BBQ chicken sandwich.

 

[Craftygirl]

The chicken math is starting to sink in with me. I visit the farm stores every time I goto town now. Sad so sad! LOL

TODAY I went to get more feed. Orscheln's had the cutest *fry pan* chicks ever! Some of them had rose combs and I thought to myself "there's my Silver Laced Wyandotte" and then I wondered why they labeled them fry pan. . . Were they all roosters? Some of these looked like EEs... With pea combs.

In any case I resisted. I'm still waiting out for a SLW and hanging out with my current and first 6 chicks. Constantly thinking of ways to add on to my current coop with out asking my Hubby! Ha ha

 

[crazyfeathers]

I would be no help as i have lots of room and always on the look out for chickens. Never thought I would love chickens so much.

 

[Kelsykin]

Chicken math got my husband. We were suppose to get just 6 Welsummer chicks. He brought home a dozen. He has it bad. He wants them all and we do not have the money to support his addictions. Rabbits, chickens, trucks, etc....

 

[cafarmgirl]

Sigh....I am FORBIDDEN to go to any place selling chicks this time of year, and they are everywhere! I love bringing home new chicks and DH knows I have no will power when it comes to that. The fact that my coops are full and I have no place to raise youngsters once they are out of the brooder helps. My husband gets a crazed look in his eye if he thinks I am even thinking about him adding on to my pens lol! So, no chicks for me this year.

 

[CarolinaHen]

Ummmm.... In addition to the 56 I have in the incubator set to hatch next week..... I may have brought home some SL Wyandottes and Barred Rocks. You know.... Those are breeds we don't have and they lay ssoooo good!

 

[red horse ranch]

So how hard is it to rehome a pullet or a roo? Let's say I go get 6 more chicks. Could I let them grow and keep only my favorites? Do people do this? What do you do with the ones you don't want? Sell them, eat them? The guy I got the blrw said he would help me with the Roos if I end up with a bunch. Pretty sure he will butcher them if they aren't up to his breeding standard, and that's okay with me. I'm really curious what most people do though.
Thanks!

I am a chicken addict! There. I said it.

I hatched my first chicken with a light bulb 7 years ago. Since then I have hatched more than a thousand.
The pullets are really easy to get rid of. I will raise them until fully feathered at around 2 months old and then I just put an ad on Craig's List. I will offer a free rooster to anyone who buys pullets from me. Most people will take one.
By that age I have picked out the ones I want to keep.
It really goes against my grain to harvest roosters for the freezer but they sure taste good later on.

 

[Kelsykin]

I am trying to convince my husband that I need one of these




So we can get more birds ( one of his addictions ) so I can hatch out some babies ( my addiction ) so he can get the birds he wants, so I can get more eggs to incubate..... See the slippery slope we have going here. Last Summer we got 5 rabbits we now have 26 bunnies......