How to get rid of roosters?

[Sublight]

I agree with @lazy gardener on this. I smile every time I see people post this sort of thing. Either the farmer's roosters are getting eaten by predators or the farmer! Farmers are businessmen, they do not feed animals for the love of it. One rooster is enough for a flock. Why would he want more other than to eat them.

Edited to add....
Just read your additional post @apryl29 and it sounds like perhaps your guy was the lucky one.

its like my dad, he just cant keep a freaking rooster. I gave him 2 of my young ones hoping they would help keep a lookout for critters. Both died. One was a hawk, one was a possum.

 

[Sublight]

Multiple roos are very beneficial to me because my girls are all over the place, and more roos gives me more coverage.

And more protection.

 

[lazy gardener]

If the coop is not pred proof, a roo is not going to do a bit of good there. While some roos will go down fighting to protect their hens, the most I've seen is that they stand watch and sound the alert so the hens can eat in peace.

 

[duluthralphie]

My cockerel was a buff orpington, he wanted him for breeding. My brother even suggested that he could eat the bird if he changed his mind and he said he had no plans of it. He was looking to start hatching his own eggs. Obviously, once he's got the bird he can do as he wishes, but he even offered for us to come visit him on the farm so I don't see why he'd lie about it.
I had 2 cockerels up in the ad, one was a slightly aggressive leghorn and the buff orp. He only wanted the buff orp & was going to see another lady about a RIR after he left. If he was going to just eat them he'd have taken both of mine.

Keep telling yourself that..... Unless you are raising and showing birds, very few if any people are going to want a rooster from you for breeding.

There could be other reason he did not take the other rooster..Too small...too old.. did not look tasty enough.

I get a chuckle out of all the people I see saying "I sent my rooster to a chicken rescue farm"

I think a person could fill a freezer and never have to buy meat with all the ads around here for "free to a good home" ads around here.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

And more protection.

That's what I meant. More eyes looking up.

 

[apryl29]

Keep telling yourself that..... Unless you are raising and showing birds, very few if any people are going to want a rooster from you for breeding.

There could be other reason he did not take the other rooster..Too small...too old.. did not look tasty enough.

I get a chuckle out of all the people I see saying "I sent my rooster to a chicken rescue farm"

I think a person could fill a freezer and never have to buy meat with all the ads around here for "free to a good home" ads around here.

I've seen other people on this site who've rescued chickens, so that's not necessarily a falsehood. He declined the leghorn before he even saw it. Believe what you like, I had 2 other people who called about them and none of them wanted the leghorn b/c he was aggressive. If people are taking them to eat them then they wouldn't care if they were friendly or not.

 

[Sublight]

You guys are giving me ideas. Im going to start taking "rescues", and relocate them to my freezer.
Ok, im not really going to do that, but its great. If I ever get hungry, I know how ill feed my family.

 

[CCUK]

I have rescued hens from a battery farm and there great! But you don't really get roosters they get minced as day olds. A friend of mine took to rescuing cockerals and ended up with alot. I'm not sure how many but upwards of 15! They had pens everywhere. They had to thin them out as it was getting out of hand. They now have a full freezer. Life sucks if your born a cockeral. Their life really hangs by a shoestring.

 

[RollTideChicken]

Well we all at some point have to cull if we can't rehome. The guy I sell birds to buys in bulk or not at all so the 2 roosters I currently don't need are about to move on to the other side. It'll be the first time I've had to cull mine. But the dominant one is really bad to the ladies and my Bielefelder roo who is not agressive at all and is a total gentleroo to his ladies doesn't much like this lil upstart. So, OFF WITH HIS HEAD! Sorry just had too...

 

[duluthralphie]

I've seen other people on this site who've rescued chickens, so that's not necessarily a falsehood. He declined the leghorn before he even saw it. Believe what you like, I had 2 other people who called about them and none of them wanted the leghorn b/c he was aggressive. If people are taking them to eat them then they wouldn't care if they were friendly or not.

Herein lies the reason he declined it before even seeing it....LEGHORN...... Not really a meat bird.