Help--Rehoming roosters

[lleighmay]

Is there anyone you work with who might like to have (eat) them if you can't bring yourself to do it? I'm fortunate to work with a girl who will take, humanely kill, and eat any extra chickens anyone at work has. Mine are pets too so I don't eat them myself (even ones that are mean or extra) but I'd rather know she ate one then it winding up in a fighting pen somewhere.....

 

[LarryPQ]

Peeps-- why didn't I see you are in AZ? Have we already talked about the roos? PM me, dearie.

ETA

OTHERWISE--the Stock Shop, the Feed Barn, and Privetts all accept roos. Some will pay you $4 for them--but you have to make an appt. Smaller feed stores will take them in for free.

 

[theegghunter]

I am having sort of the same issue, but think I have come up with a solution, it might help you as well! We have some friends that are going to kill and feather them for us, then I will finish the butchering process. The thing that I am focusing on is that they are doing theirs at the same time! We are giving them a cornish-cross for doing our butchering and we don't know if we are getting our roos or theirs, so I am just going with I am getting theirs!!
Money is tight in this neck of the woods, and unfortunately, beggars can't be choosers, so to speak! I would much rather they meet their end this way than a dog, fox, hawk, wolf, or any other of the numberous things that run around here!! Hope this helps, or at least gives you a piece of mind! Just make sure that if you give them away or charge or whatever, that you let the people who are getting them know he is aggressive! I have had this happen before, and I have young grandchildren! At least I was the one he decided to take it out on!!

 

[Iluvmypeeps]

I killing him is what it comes to, I've decided I'll go along with it. I'm just going to have somebody else do it than me. I can't imagine doing it myself.

I know, I'm a sissy.

 

[BigSkyChickens]

Just chiming in to give support. Best wishes and good luck whatever you decide.

I have a suspected 10 week old roo, and I'm trying to decide what to do with him before he starts crowing.

I like the idea of giving him an extremely good and peaceful life to the end. Not sure if I'm up for doing the deed - darn your cuteness, Pecky-Roo!
I eat SO much chicken, and I want to be more honest and mindful about it.

 

[Nostalchic]

I have found that rooster who has just attacked you and drawn blood is MUCH easier to kill than you might think! (Don't THINK about what a cute little chick he was, though...) But even a rooster that you like, who trusts you, is pretty easy to do in if you consider that you are saving them a frightening transport to a strange and perhaps not humane new environment and then a death that you cannot have some control over. And when you consider that you have given him a good home for this amount of time, and then BAM... we should all have it so good. There are lots of techniques, but the easiest in my opinion is to place his upper neck- just below his head -under a broomstick that you are holding down with your feet, and then jerk his body up. It's very fast, pretty impersonal, very effective. It's the anticipation of the deed that is the most painful and difficult. Once it's done, you'll be relieved and proud of yourself for having the guts to face up to where your food comes from. Truly, ilovemypeeps, it's one of life's important lessons. Good luck!