keeping more then one rooster

Cull means to remove. This can mean butchering them, but it can also mean selling them or giving them away.

You are giving a rooster away, so you are culling that rooster from your other chickens.

And it doesn't take many roosters -- that is why most roosters are culled. Even if all culled roosters were butchered, it wouldn't make much difference.

 

Cull also means to kill. Don't you remember the mass cull when the mad cow disease broke out?

 

Did you read what I wrote? Yes, one way to cull is to kill. But it does not have to be killing. You are culling your rooster when you give him away.

"Cull: To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example)."

 

Yes,i am aware that culling means to remove undesirable traits/behavior from a herd,but when talking about poultry the generally accepted use of the word "cull" means to kill.

So for the time being Mr.Randy Pants will stay.

 

I read what you wrote wrong. Sorry I thought you were saying cull doesn't mean to kill.