Is two roos one too many for 13 hens??

[LtDanFan]

Regarding the hatching eggs thing; I bet you still could without having a full time roo!…. he breeds them, you have eggs. Once he's becoming an issue he's re-homed... Rinse and repeat!

THATS EXACTLY what i was hoping to do. If there weren’t extenuating circumstances, i wouldn’t have a problem culling them. In fact, that was my plan until life intervened.

…having them only for a few months would get heavy on the heart. Although, it's also neat that it'd be a sort of lineage/heritage (may need to bring in new stock periodically to avoid inbreeding, not sure how much is too much).

Yes, but if i knew from the start his fate was the dinner plate it would be easier. I am practical about animals in general being food and i am very grateful for their existence and sacrifice and i want their short lives to be humane but since one survived a literal hellfire and the other was ordered on purpose its a bit more of a struggle to remain detached. I’m probably more of a softie than i should be but so be it.

There is a local breeder of CCL’s (from whom I purchased the initial hatching eggs) so perhaps i could serve as an outlet one or two of her unwanted cockerels but i was just trying to figure out a way to keep both the boys if they both if they both turn out to be decent. Trying to make the chicken math work in my favor!! Haha.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

If chickening has taught me nothing else, it’s that life isn’t simple.

And only later have I realized that believing that life=simple means that I have attempted to control how life happens, and when the universe gently chuckles at me and says nah, it’s a well-deserved lesson in humility. Because in fact, I’m not the boss.

Pretty rando there, sorry!

 

[LtDanFan]

If chickening has taught me nothing else, it’s that life isn’t simple.

I love this!! I will definitely use the term “chickening” when speaking about my life to family members from now on.


And when it comes to life, and chickens and ducks and even my life, i am most definitely NOT the boss, as much as i or others think i am.