Selling Cockerels Advice

[AnneGirlGG]

I feel that—I have kids too and that’s how my last rooster ended up getting on the bye-bye list. He flared his feathers and was fixin to charge my tiny human. He was gone the next day. You don’t have to make a decision right away since they are still young and getting along. You can wait and see how hormones effect them a bit but have a space/plan to separate them if the feathers start flying or concerning behaviors toward people crop up. Decide what behaviors are deal breakers and then be confident in following through. That’s what I did was basically give three strikes unless he went for the kid. So he didn’t make it to three strikes. Hope that helps a little

It does, thank you. We are fortunate to have 2 additional, separate runs so we'll have a way to separate on a moment's notice if need be.

I know mine are bantams, and I'm not sure what kind of actual damage they could inflict on us if someone decided to try. But I'm not willing to find out.

 

[Mrs. K]

Really there is a mistaken worry that one might pick the wrong rooster and therefore put off the decision. This can become agonizing. I know, been there.

What helped me was not to pick and decide every bird. Count up your cockerels. Divide in half, half go, half stay. Separate them into separate places. Give yourself two days, knowing if you add one back, someone else is going in there. To be honest, I have even done this as a gate cut, meaning the first ones I catch, go. It clears the forest so you can see the trees.

Wait another two weeks, divide in half again.

Wait two weeks, by this time repeat. But generally by now you know who you are going to try. Do know it might work, and it might not. Raising roosters is a crap shoot.

Mrs K

 

[AnneGirlGG]

Really there is a mistaken worry that one might pick the wrong rooster and therefore put off the decision. This can become agonizing. I know, been there.

What helped me was not to pick and decide every bird. Count up your cockerels. Divide in half, half go, half stay. Separate them into separate places. Give yourself two days, knowing if you add one back, someone else is going in there. To be honest, I have even done this as a gate cut, meaning the first ones I catch, go. It clears the forest so you can see the trees.

Wait another two weeks, divide in half again.

Wait two weeks, by this time repeat. But generally by now you know who you are going to try. Do know it might work, and it might not. Raising roosters is a crap shoot.

Mrs K

This is great advice. The last line in particular, I think. It helps me see it more as if I get rid of some and still end up with a not so great one, it's not necessarily that I made a bad choice as it is that roosters might just be roosters. Thank you!