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I think this would be excellent wording for a CL ad!!
I rehomed a rooster that I'd written a lengthy advertisement for, pictures included. I'd paid almost $50 to have him shipped to me just a month or so earlier, and he just did not work out at our place. I offered him for free to a good home, specifying I wanted him to have a flock of hens and space to roam. I still knew in the back of my head that he could end up stew, and like others have said, I just really didn't want to know if that was the case. I figure there are worse things that could happen to a rooster than feeding a family...
There is an add that runs on CL all year that they take large chickens, no matter how old just need to be full grown. They pay $2 per bird, yes they eat them. I have used them to get rid of extra roosters and maybe some older hens next year, I have a call into them right now for my BO roo that no one wants.
If you search this forum, you will find a guy in Carpinteria CA that posts on craigslist that he will take a few roosters every week.
I can't remember how he words it, but you know he is eating them. Because you have to pay up to $15 locally to have your rooster packed and ready for freezer camp-if you have roos you don't want to pack for camp....it is a deal.
Taking this one step further, and hopefully not hijacking the OP, how young would you take them? You could get a lot of freebie young roos that people just don't want to raise further than the point they can sex. [Yeah, I am thinking of those 6 leghorn roos that are a mere 3 weeks old. How do I dispose of them?] I don't see that as any different than ordering an all roo assortment from the hatchery.
Taking this one step further, and hopefully not hijacking the OP, how young would you take them? You could get a lot of freebie young roos that people just don't want to raise further than the point they can sex. [Yeah, I am thinking of those 6 leghorn roos that are a mere 3 weeks old. How do I dispose of them?] I don't see that as any different than ordering an all roo assortment from the hatchery.
hmm well then it becomes of a question of the value of feeding them /raising them for me...A lot of extra work but....but I have been very very interested in trying my hand at caponizing. Once again I would be honest with the folks I was buying the baby roos from that they would be going to freezer camp once they were big enough. I probably wouldn't mention if they were the appropriate age to try it I would caponize them. That is down the road though. I don't have the medical supplies for it and I certainly haven't examined the step by illustrations to the point where I am comfortable trying it yet.
I guess I would be pretty open to taking most ages of roos. I wouldn't want a huge influx of young ones though until our permanent coop was built so our hens could be in there home and I could convert our current coop into something appropriate to house a bunch of young roos..