Roosters in town and sex links

[Spiritsmeadow]

I know I might be stirring the pot here a bit..

I see a lot of people on the Facebook chicken sites posting,
"I live in town that doesn't allow roosters and I got a rooster as a baby chick"
"I didn't know it was a rooster"
"I cant have any roosters so here is a free rooster"!

My question is if someone lives in a town that doesn't allow roosters than why would they get one in the first place?
Why not get a color sex link like a ISA Brown, Black sex link, cream crested leg bar, barred rock etc?
You can prevent getting baby roosters by going directly to the hatchery/farm store(don't special order)and hand picking the color sex links yourself.

Don't trust the store employees to gender them and do your research on how to gender them before hand.
Or better yet if your gonna get a non auto sexing breed buy them at a age old enough to gender?
Why risk it?

I know... I know...
"My favorite breed isn't a sex link"

I still don't think its a good idea to buy straight run non-sex link chicks if you can't have roosters.
That's a waste of time. Then there's the drama/hardship of finding the roosters a new home.

I think the reason I have such strong feelings on the issue is my Mom would go down to the farm store and get straight run chicks(non auto-sexing)and then we would end with 10 roosters and living in town the neighbors would complain.

It was embarrassing for me. My friends picked on me over it.

We were the original reason a ordinance was made against roosters in my home town.

Ok rant over.....

I bought 12 chicks at the feed store. Two were larger and more uppity than the other chicks early on. Then they became more aggressive. One day while hanging out the washing, one crowed. OH NO! A rooster! These things happen...it starts at the hatchery with people who are hired who are unqualified to work there if you know what I mean. So I kept my roosters and after 4 years, one died but I still have the huge 2 feet tall one, and he's magnificent. Don't blame people for ending up with roosters...I picked my chicks and I wanted layers, pullets, and by a happy accident got two beautiful dedicated roosters. But yes, in a town stupid enough to outlaw roosters, post ads on Craig's List and give them to someone who will love them. Good Luck!

 

[Jrnguyen]

Ok so if you lived in a trailer park with a 30 pound max size limit on dogs would you go out and a great dane! Lol

Your comparison makes zero sense. Did I say I "went out and got chickens despite regulations"? I adopted perfectly healthy chicks to prevent them from being culled. If you're asking if I would Foster a perfectly healthy great Dane to prevent him from being euthanized, then my answer is absolutely.

 

[bigz1983]

I bought 12 chicks at the feed store. Two were larger and more uppity than the other chicks early on. Then they became more aggressive. One day while hanging out the washing, one crowed. OH NO! A rooster! These things happen...it starts at the hatchery with people who are hired who are unqualified to work there if you know what I mean. So I kept my roosters and after 4 years, one died but I still have the huge 2 feet tall one, and he's magnificent. Don't blame people for ending up with roosters...I picked my chicks and I wanted layers, pullets, and by a happy accident got two beautiful dedicated roosters. But yes, in a town stupid enough to outlaw roosters, post ads on Craig's List and give them to someone who will love them. Good Luck!

12 sexed pullets or straight run?

The thing that really gets me going is seeing ads for 5 roosters because the 5 out of the 6 non-sex link/non-auto sexing chicks they got were roosters. Then they live in town and can't have roosters.

That's a huge waste of time.
They don't even get any meat.
Geez..

 

[bigz1983]

Your comparison makes zero sense. Did I say I "went out and got chickens despite regulations"? I adopted perfectly healthy chicks to prevent them from being culled. If you're asking if I would Foster a perfectly healthy great Dane to prevent him from being euthanized, then my answer is absolutely.

Makes sense to me..
If you can't roosters and can't have a breed of dog.
What's the difference?

 

[Jrnguyen]

Makes sense to me..
If you can't roosters and can't have a breed of dog.
What's the difference?

Um, the difference is, we may not know that we have roosters when we get them. That's kind of the point of this thread. There would be little possibility of my thinking I'm getting a Chihuahua and ending up with a great Dane by accident and needing to re-home it.

 

[Trevorusn]

Because I'm tired of seeing those and ads and think it's stupid thats why..
If you don't like my thread here why did you even reply.

Well, one could say you could do the same with the Craigslist ads and ignore them lol. But, folks are drawn to the breeds they are drawn to for one reason or another. When you take to popular breeds like EEs or Copper Marans that lay unique colored eggs, roos are bound to happen. No one sets out intentionally to get unwanted roos, that's just how the game works out sometimes. I actually cruise those ads daily, it gives folks a chance at some beautiful birds at low cost or even free oftentimes, whether it be an extra roo or a moving special where the whole flock must go. So long as they are healthy, those ads can be pretty helpful. Buuuuut comparing the extra unknown roo to the Great Dane/30lb limit example is a wee bit off. Plus, those ads helped save many a healthy roo that otherwise would be culled for no other reason than he was an unwanted extra.

 

[bigz1983]

Um, the difference is, we may not know that we have roosters when we get them. That's kind of the point of this thread. There would be little possibility of my thinking I'm getting a Chihuahua and ending up with a great Dane by accident and needing to re-home it.

The chances of getting 100% pullets out of a batch of straight run chick is slim.
So yeah you should know your getting roosters.

 

[Jrnguyen]

The chances of getting 100% pullets out of a batch of straight run chick is slim.
So yeah you should know your getting roosters.

Again. IF we get straight run, we KNOW there is a chance of getting roos. In which case we re-home them. You seem to be the only person who has an issue with that . I also (as well as literally every chicken owner I know) have gotten a roo or two from an order of sexed female chicks at one point or another. In such an instance, we MIGHT be less prepared for the roos, but we still just re-home them. You fail to be convincing anyone on this thread that rehoming unexpected roos is a problem for anyone but yourself.

 

[bigz1983]

Again. IF we get straight run, we KNOW there is a chance of getting roos. In which case we re-home them. You seem to be the only person who has an issue with that . I also (as well as literally every chicken owner I know) have gotten a roo or two from an order of sexed female chicks at one point or another. In such an instance, we MIGHT be less prepared for the roos, but we still just re-home them. You fail to be convincing anyone on this thread that rehoming unexpected roos is a problem for anyone but yourself.

I don't make ads for my extra roosters.
They just go to the slow cooker.
I have gotten roosters from the
"Sexed pullet" bin.
I have enough bought point of lay pullets from a breeder that screwed me over and they all ended up being roosters.

 

[Jrnguyen]

I don't make ads for my extra roosters.
They just go to the slow cooker.
I have gotten roosters from the
"Sexed pullet" bin.
I have enough bought point of lay pullets from a breeder that screwed me over and they all ended up being roosters.

There are plenty of people looking for roos to expand their own flocks that rehoming is a perfectly acceptable option for unexpected roos. Why exactly would we toss cockerels that are barely developed into the fryer when other people want them for reproductive purposes and are willing to let them become full grown before sending them to the dinner table?