Selling Chickens

[Madie'sOddFlock]

Tomorrow will be my first time ever selling my own chickens. I know it'll be a good first step because I only have 3 to sell and I want to start breeding. But it's been 4 weeks and I think I'm already attached. On the other hand, I have no use for them. 2 are cockerels and the other is a pullet but I can't breed them because they're from very questionable genetics(I hatched them from a free flock that we turned around and sold a week after we got them) so I don't want them in my gene pool. The roosters obviously won't lay any eggs, and I have absolutely no idea what color eggs the hens will lay so I can't put them in with my regular flock(there are two hens but I'm definitely attached to the second one so there's not a chance I'm selling her). Help!!!
What did/would you do? Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks,
Madie.

 

[Mrs. K]

I would keep the hens and eat the roosters. Selling roosters is tough, if you have someone willing to buy them, sell them ASAP.

I would keep the hens, you have 4 weeks into them. Just because they lay eggs, you don't necessarily have to use those eggs to hatch, those can just be cooking eggs, but a mutt hen can lay as well as a show hen. Just hatch from the breed you like.

Mrs K