I think I guessed wrong. Help me out?

[redinator]

I'm a little squeamish when it comes to smells and just too soft to kill anything lol I have yet to get over the emotional part of culling. I actually have a brother in law that owns a farm business and butchers his own animals - chickens included. I might seek his help as this does look too much for me to do alone! Thank you for the videos and wisdom

I was the same way when I ended up with too many cockerels in a straight run batch of chicks just earlier this year. I managed to rehome the lot and was grateful I had.

I couldn't bring myself to cull them for no good reason, other than they were cockerels. Since this rooster had a bad attitude I wasn't comfortable rehoming him, so I tolerated the behavior.

I waited until I had enough and wanted peace back in my yard and my flock. With that last attack I nearly wanted to ring his neck on the spot, that's when I knew the emotional attachment was removed from the equation.

 

[redinator]

I tried culling 3 roosters and I ended up tossing them because just doing 1 took me over 3 hours so I just decided that I will need someone else to process them for me.

It's a lengthy process that's for sure. We made the mistake of moving inside the house after he was dead since it was getting dark. We planned to skin him, but we still had to remove feathers from the breast to get down to the skin. I'm still finding feathers everywhere in the house. I'm so glad we didn't pluck him completely.

 

[mermaid_of_the_farm]

I was the same way when I ended up with too many cockerels in a straight run batch of chicks just earlier this year. I managed to rehome the lot and was grateful I had.

I couldn't bring myself to cull them for no good reason, other than they were cockerels. Since this rooster had a bad attitude I wasn't comfortable rehoming him, so I tolerated the behavior.

I waited until I had enough and wanted peace back in my yard and my flock. With that last attack I nearly wanted to ring his neck on the spot, that's when I knew the emotional attachment was removed from the equation.

Rehoming might be the way then!

 

[mermaid_of_the_farm]

It's a lengthy process that's for sure. We made the mistake of moving inside the house after he was dead since it was getting dark. We planned to skin him, but we still had to remove feathers from the breast to get down to the skin. I'm still finding feathers everywhere in the house. I'm so glad we didn't pluck him completely.

Oh dear, sounds messy! I love hearing everyone's stories, there's always something to learn!!

 

[redinator]

Oh dear, sounds messy! I love hearing everyone's stories, there's always something to learn!!

Even if you learn, maybe you don't want roosters, lol