I started out with 12 rir chicks well I just wanted one rooster and ended up with 3 so yesterday my son caught the 2 I did not want to keep and took them to the firehouse to a guy who eats them....I feel so bad about doing that.....
Well, think about it as saving them from a cruel death such as rooster fights, being housed in a small cage just so you can keep them, or so many other fates.
You had a chance to raise them humanely and treat them with respect until their end came. Try not to feel bad, they nourished a family, what a honor for a roo.
quite possibly not thinking at all. Off to warm sunny rays of...green blades of grass in their own chicken heaven. RIP. (I don't know if they are gone or not)