If you had the right roos I would take them. I have 3 Pekin ducks YOU can have. I want to eat them, but DW won't let me.
That's how I ended up with a house chicken. My BF won't let me eat Peepers even though I am 99.9% sure he's a roo. He won't even use the male pronoun when referring to him, as if that will someone change it. Part of me thinks it's cute, but part of me...well...My mistake for patching the poor thing up instead of culling it after the flock attacked it.
I started 5 new breeds this year. HRIR, Leghorns, LB's, HDelawares and GLW. Going to keep 2 or 3 roos per breed for breeding. The rest I will sell or eat. Either way. I process roos and hens. Doesn't bother me at all. It's over in less than 1 second. But if anybody in the upstate WANTS 3 Pekins you can come and get them. FREE!! I need the room for these chickens.
How are those Delawares coming along? Out of my seven I have a real good feeling about two. One with unbelievably yellow legs and one that is nearly twice the size of the others and good comb development. Really hoping it's a roo since it's super sweet. They're all actually pretty calm and sweet. I've seriously considered phasing out most of my other chickens for these. Even the two hatchery Delies I have will let me pick them up without a fuss. All the others are a giant PITA when I need to hold them!
Mine are coming along very well. Getting very BIG!! I may have a lot of roos. As for the legs, I don't seem to have any with yellow legs. There all pretty greenish color.Will really have to work on that. May have to get a roo with yellow legs to breed with these. I heard that is one of the hardest issues with Delawares. Even though Paul says he doesn't breed for show. Breeds large Dellies. Which is actually why I went with him. Because these are going to be one of my dual purpose breeds. Keep some for breeding, eating and selling. As for tameness, well, I can't raise a tame chicken to save my life. I guess it's because I never ever hold them. There fine as far as me being in there as are my others, but as far as picking them up forget it. NONE of my 80 chickens liked to be picked up. Which is fine with me. I love all my chickens but I do raise them to eat. So I actually don't want to get to close to them. I have one roo and a hen I probably will keep forever. Got to close to them. I breed all my chickens for a purpose. Once they can't fill that purpose, well time for the freezer.Fact of life on this little farm.
