Packing peanuts

[leenie]

Yeah, but it would be my luck that all my kids' favorites would end up being the roos.

I rehomed a lovely lad already and don't live in an area where roos are welcome nor in high demand. Craigslist is filled with roos here and a good deal of those listings never seem to go away. Guess the excitement for those peanuts all depends on where you live.

 

[chicktwit]

I wound up with a packing peanut that turned into one of the best Roos I ever had. He was australorp. I did have to do something with all his brothers tho.

 

[Chickens-246]

I'm against packing peanuts, I have trouble giving them away and this forces me to put them down myself, which I have allot of trouble doing. Adding roos is a bad practice, roos are not allowed in some areas. One pays extra for all females and get roos anyway.

 

[txchickie]

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Then spend the extra $2.00 for shipping insurance and be done with it! You have options.

 

[Feathered Wings]

I love the little Packing peanuts I got 8 once with a order they were Barred rock, I sold them and made a little money back on my order.
As someone said there are other options if you don't want them

 

[Chickens-246]

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Then spend the extra $2.00 for shipping insurance and be done with it! You have options.

Huh? What does shipping insurance have to do with what I said?

 

[PunkinPeep]

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I don't understand why your only option is to kill them. Make a few connections with people in the country, and they can at least be grown out to be food for someone, or become a flock rooster, not just killed as babies. All my chicken friends know that i will take extra roos off their hands.

 

[Chesher]

If they're not packing peanuts, they're probably going to be culled and sometimes in some pretty awful ways. It's not pleasant to think about, but if it's born a boy it's probably going to be ground up for feed. At least being a peanut they stand a chance of someone putting them up on craigslist or become someone's nice chicken dinner, instead of going down a grinder. You can't have all of us cooing over and ordering the laying females and not remember that 50% of all chicks are male... those boys went somewhere!

 

[Chickens-246]

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I don't understand why your only option is to kill them. Make a few connections with people in the country, and they can at least be grown out to be food for someone, or become a flock rooster, not just killed as babies. All my chicken friends know that i will take extra roos off their hands.

Are you reading my post at all?

I have trouble giving them away...

...roos are not allowed in some areas.

 

[mayberrychickens]

I would like to give another idea for advertising your roos! There is a website, Kijiji.com, that you can post in your state and put in your zip code. There you can post your roos that you don't want there. Give the roos a chance with someone else who may want them instead of killing them or complaining about what you might get. At least the company is thinking of your paid for chicks and want them to stay warm while in shipping to your home. Just another idea for someone to use