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I promise that I'm doing better with that after all these years rehoming extra males. The guilt lasts for 5 minutes, but zero guilt over four of the five, not for a moment. It's easier to find homes for well-behaved boys and four of the five were not going to find a new situation for themselves with their personalities, even though only Duncan showed any aggression. In the past, I have rehomed males for good reasons at the time, but I regretted it. One was one of Isaac's sons with my EE hen, June. I should have kept him because he was really sweet, but his brothers were beating him up too much and getting on my nerves. If there is a place for whoever it is, he can stay. There was no place here for these and if either of the two I have left misbehave toward me, no remorse for what I will have to do, just disappointment that he forced my hand.Don't look back. It isn't helpful. All you can really do is keep pushing forward doing the best you can do. Do your best for the ones you've got and resist the urge to compare them to what's gone. That's not good for either you or them. Time will make that easier.
Rusty
These are the last I'm ever going to breed from so I have been extra careful about every single step I make with them, kept them longer than I usually would so their temperament would show and their forms would fill out some. That is one reason you've seen so much caution from me in selection of my keeper males. Plus, I have a hard time rehoming males when I have developed a rapport with them and they are not causing trouble. I will never be the farmer who runs out to grab a chicken from the barn to cook for dinner like my grandfather was. And I never plan to be.
My life situation is becoming more difficult with my husband so, eventually, I will have to just keep layers. I see it coming down the road, but I love my roosters and they've given me a lot of good times and laughs as well as affection. I will be sad about that and I don't claim otherwise.
