Loving your chooks @Chooks Man - well bred!! I'm curious, what is your plan for the Split White Cockerel? Take Care, Keith
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Loving your chooks @Chooks Man - well bred!! I'm curious, what is your plan for the Split White Cockerel? Take Care, Keith
So...having some problems with Pinky Pie.
He's becoming more aggressive the older he gets. I don't know if that's because I have more roos on the property now or what, but it's ridiculous. He charges the sides of the pen anytime I walk by (enough that he's actually rubbing the feathers off his breast), and I have to pin him down and pick him up just to go inside. Today was the first time he used his beak on me and bit my cheek pretty good. It'll probably leave a scar.
I should cull him, right? I mean, I do have two younger cockerels by him and several decent pullets. Hopefully they haven't inherited his aggression.
I ll cook him for a dog if I was you .
now that he started he is only going to get worst .
no body know what goes inside the chooks head .one day they are cool and the next day they turn nasty .
Chooks man
Loving your chooks @Chooks Man - well bred!! I'm curious, what is your plan for the Split White Cockerel?
Take Care,
Keith
Chooks man, or anybody else actually, what method do you use to cull. I have a 6 month old mutt rooster that I would like to eat but I just cant get myself to do it without guidance. I culled a chick this past month without difficulty but it was damaged so that was different. Thanks for helping a newbie.
Chooks man, or anybody else actually, what method do you use to cull. I have a 6 month old mutt rooster that I would like to eat but I just cant get myself to do it without guidance. I culled a chick this past month without difficulty but it was damaged so that was different. Thanks for helping a newbie.
Yup, I tried with the axe and a stump several years ago and after the first swing that partially decapitated it, that roo sat up and squalked at me and I have not been able to do it since. I reckon if I am raising these things, I better learn to efficiently dispatch them to the freezer. So with the cone, you hold the bird upside down first until it gets drowsy and then put it in and do the deed....?I use a cone and a sharp knife. Tug the head toward me, slice the knife away with some muscle, one stroke, and it's done. I'd much prefer to use a hatchet so I don't have to be hands-on, but my aim sucks. You don't want to know how I found that out.
Do you use the cone?I just cut they head with a sharp knife if I have to do just one or 2 .
when I have a larger group I get my friend the butcher who does it for me and he take 25% of the carcasses .
chooks man
Thanks for the feedback. I probably should've done it several months ago, but I was hoping if I tried all those "rooster domination" tricks, he might calm down. But I've carried him, squirt him with water, smacked the crap out of him, and nothing works. Today was the last straw; I just needed to hear it from someone else. He was such a sweet cockerel, but like you said, one day he just flipped.
Yup, I tried with the axe and a stump several years ago and after the first swing that partially decapitated it, that roo sat up and squalked at me and I have not been able to do it since. I reckon if I am raising these things, I better learn to efficiently dispatch them to the freezer. So with the cone, you hold the bird upside down first until it gets drowsy and then put it in and do the deed....?