North Carolina

[gavinandallison]

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Gavin, be very happy if you can get $8-$10 for them. DH took 12 of ours (all cockerels) over to the sale this past Thursday. They just dont bring much, the most expensive two sold for a whopping $5 each! I dont even want to tell you what the others went for.

Free to a good home is always an option, that is what I have done in the past and will do in the future, waste less gas and time and someone is bound to take them when you offer the word "free".

I will try................

 

[Miss Lydia]

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he is beautiful, vfem
so are we saying no one eats their extra roos but my dh and I?

 

[ramirezframing]

Gavin when you go, price what is there and than set your prices, if your too high for your area you will be taking them back home.
But if that's not a problem for you than pick a price and go for it. The polish pair got sold to a lady, I don't know if she paid the $60 for them or not. Good luck with the sale.

I got my first set of sliver laced polish for $10 for both birds if I remember right, been a few years. I don't know when or if they will have another one, it was a bit cramped into one spot and some I know won't what was being sold.

 

[BHep]

Thanks for the info ramirez.....

G&A.... at auction I get $ 2.50-$ 5.00 for most rooster. I have seen them go as high as $30. The ones they sell for big money are BLRW, Polish, Game birds & the fancy longtailed ones. If it is with a hen they sell for double/ triple, depending on breed. I just sold a 4 month old splash silkie roo for $3.50.

But I need to get rid of them, if I sell enough roosters, maybe, I will have enough for 1 bag of feed.

Good Luck at the sale, look around what everyone else is selling for....
Sometimes we need to do what we hate to do.

ML.... I want to process my own birds, I don't have the nerve to do the deed

I need someone to hold my hand. I think once I do it a time or two I will be alright. I have talked to some people and just have to pin someone down as to time etc to help.

Sad news here tonight....lost another gosling.

Why always the favorites ! Not that I want to lose anyone, but I LOVE these geese

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

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he is beautiful, vfem
so are we saying no one eats their extra roos but my dh and I?

Not at all.......if our extras don't sell then we definately process them. All I can say is yardbird is tastier than store bought any day

sorry Beth on your gossling

 

[Miss Lydia]

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aww beth what happened, and so sorry,

 

[Matt A NC]

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I do. Infact I have shown a couple local folks how to do it. Skinning is the easiest for me and that is what I have been showing. One I did pluck. It was young and a dry pluck was really quick. I do NOT do the killing if I can get someone else to do it, but can do everything else. The knife set I won so many years ago has come in really handy. Those blades are so sharp.

My main rule is that any bird that is to be processed is to be treated with the utmost respect just like any other feathered friend. Even if it was a mean, pain in the rear Roo it is still making a contribution to the family.

Matt

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

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I do. Infact I have shown a couple local folks how to do it. Skinning is the easiest for me and that is what I have been showing. One I did pluck. It was young and a dry pluck was really quick. I do NOT do the killing if I can get someone else to do it, but can do everything else. The knife set I won so many years ago has come in really handy. Those blades are so sharp.

My main rule is that any bird that is to be processed is to be treated with the utmost respect just like any other feathered friend. Even if it was a mean, pain in the rear Roo it is still making a contribution to the family.

Matt

Ditto......and I also opt for skinning instead of plucking.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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I do. Infact I have shown a couple local folks how to do it. Skinning is the easiest for me and that is what I have been showing. One I did pluck. It was young and a dry pluck was really quick. I do NOT do the killing if I can get someone else to do it, but can do everything else. The knife set I won so many years ago has come in really handy. Those blades are so sharp.

My main rule is that any bird that is to be processed is to be treated with the utmost respect just like any other feathered friend. Even if it was a mean, pain in the rear Roo it is still making a contribution to the family.

Matt

Ditto......and I also opt for skinning instead of plucking.

I agree 100% about treating these birds with respect. we have never skinned our roos always plucked, but if we get a drake from our ducks that will be hatching this week we will be processing duck for the first time and heard it's much easier to skin than pluck.

 

[BookWorm243]

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I am sorry beth about your gossling, what happened