Is there a certain age to cull?

[Kabootar]

Holy cow!!!!! Wow, those are some HUGE eggs!! Was the cross part of this one an ostrich?! Lol. Sweet baby! She looks beautiful! I'd like to, eventually, have a couple CX to let live our their lives but I want to get more experience under my belt with chickens in the first place. I just wasn't ready for this yet. Lol. Was messing with them this morning and, bless their big ole hearts, they want to perch on the side of the brooder so bad... and all they can do is wobble when they get there. So here sits this oversized dinosaur chicken, swaying forward and backward with it's big tree trunk legs and toes curled around the edge of the brooder just looking at me like, "What, mom?" They're such sweethearts!

The kind woman did say that this hen was a sweetheart, a pushover. She had to house her with the much milder capons, limit her ration and force her to forage. She was not a great layer though. Layed about 3-4 eggs a week at her peak.

 

[MissMarple]

Bless your heart, I would find myself keeping them for sure. I learned when I got meat goats that I am no good at processing my animals. Not one goat was ever butchered lol. I'm sure I would do the same with these two. It would be a heck of a lot easier if they weren't so sweet huh!!

Gosh, yes!!!!! My husband is a lot better about it than I am but he's in no rush either. These little babies were his favorites. He loved their little yellow fluffy selves whenever we got them and then bam. They weren't what we expected. It's just getting more and more real as the weeks go by. If they were jerks, I'd be fine. Lol! But noooo... they have to be the sweetest chickens in our entire flock...

 

[MissMarple]

The kind woman did say that this hen was a sweetheart, a pushover. She had to house her with the much milder capons, limit her ration and force her to forage. She was not a great layer though. Layed about 3-4 eggs a week at her peak.

Awh!! They really are super sweet. They just love talking to you when they see you and they like to sit in your lap and just cuddle up next to you..... ahhhhhh...

 

[Kabootar]

Awh!! They really are super sweet. They just love talking to you when they see you and they like to sit in your lap and just cuddle up next to you..... ahhhhhh...

Thankfully instead of brooding the Cornish cross chicks myself, I let my capons do the job or I would have never sold a broiler to a customer.

 

[MissMarple]

Thankfully instead of brooding the Cornish cross chicks myself, I let my capons do the job or I would have never sold a broiler to a customer.

Hah! I like that! I like it when birds do the jobs!!

 

[Kabootar]

Hah! I like that! I like it when birds do the jobs!!

Yes, definitely better than a mob of rambunctious cockerels raising havoc on my farm.