How easy is it to re-home a Roo?

[sheila3935]

I have rehomed several roosters this year just rehomed a 3 week old BR tonight. Most off craigslist and this last one some people came into the feed store where I work to buy chicks. They were looking for a rooster too. I told them I have a couple of BR cockrels at home,so they took my number and address and came over later and picked out one of the babies. I have another guy that got chicks today that may want one of my cockrels. I have another 3 wk old and a 6 week old SLW.I know all but 2 went to homes where the get to be roosters the other 2 not too sure they may have been eaten.

 

[Echolalia]

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I love Half Moon Bay and have happy childhood memories of mucking around in the pumpkin patches in October. Unfortunately, it's not the sleepy costal farming town it used to be. It's become quite boutique-y and chic - sort of a bummer. Way too many of the farming areas around SF are being turned into housing developments and strip malls. That's why we have Red Tail Hawks, Ravens, Cranes, Blue Heron and Coyotes in Golden Gate Park - they've been displaced from their former habitats out in the country.

 

[sdeneen2001]

I've had good luck with finding homes in my area. There are a lot of rural farms that need the roosters to protect the flocks. I also gave a mean RIR to an elderly asian man who brought his 5 year old grandson to translate. He said that he had heard a rooster and wondered if I wanted it. I said that I didn't and he offered me 5 dollars for it. I confirmed my suspicions that it was for dinner, but he picked the roo up and held him and petted him and the rooster just seemed relaxed. I figured that anyone who was that good at handling a roo that attacked anyone who entered the pen - would be, uh, fast and efficient. Always worth a try, but I do try to make sure they don't end up in cock fights or as bait birds for dogs.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

In my area, if you gave a roo to one of the laborers in the parking lot at the local Home Depot, the person you gave it to would sell it to one of the cock fighters around here. The cock fighters are always on the lookout for aggressive roos to train for cockfighting, and also, expendible roos to put in the ring with the aggressive roo as they train that roo for the fights.


Either way, you could be setting your little boy to be beat up, even tortured....



I will cull a roo myself before I give it to somebody I do not know well enough to be sure they don't just want the roo to sell to a cock fighter...

 

[Echolalia]

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That's why I was so appalled that the person at HMB Feed & Fuel would suggest such a thing. It makes me think that they don't deserve any future business from me. Even an animal that is destined for the dinner table deserves to be treated with compassion and care, and given as painless a death as possible. Whatever the outcome, I will do right by Eth.

- Michelle

 

[SIMPleChick]

Looks like it is probably a boy....his color is coming in more dark, not the 3 different colors like on the hen, right? So it is probably a boy. I asked this question a few week back. Boys feather out a different/darker color than the hens. And I guess Welsummers develop much faster than other breeds. My 2 Welzie hens are 5 weeks and fully feathered! I was worried they were going to be boys because they have a little pink coming through but they have hen colors!

Oh yeah!..... I have sold all 6 of the Roo's I ended up with, the longest it took for 1 to sell was 2 weeks and I had 2 offers. So it will happen, it just might take a week longer...

 

[galanie]

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I feel the same way. Also, I'll eat one myself before I'll give it away for food. I love my birds but there is just no way I'm going to invest all that feed, money, and time into a bird only to give it to someone for a free chicken dinner. And I have 2 extra cockerels now so I could be facing that very prospect.