Topic of the Week - What do/can you do with unwanted roosters?

[JacinLarkwell]

My method with my pheonixes is to see who throws more females and who throws more males since it's mama that decides sex. I let the females hatch out eggs if they throw more females and take away nests from the ones that throw mainly males

 

[Bryce Thomas]

I think it's higher than 50%

Id say its just luck sometimes, sometimes I hatch mostly hens.

My grandfather many years ago got some 15 or 16 eggs from a seller in vietnam selling dong tao chicken eggs, they were fertile and they were dong taos all right but the problem was that he only got 4 or 5 hens if I remember, then the rest were roos

 

[xeno0323]

I'm struggling with this issue because I have 4 birds and 2 are roosters. I've tried to find them homes, but I haven't had much luck. I can't eat them!

 

[jus10inla]

Once I determine they are roos, around the 4-5 month time frame, i put them up for 2 weeks of listing for sale (most have been free) , after that they are dispatched . Sometimes we eat them, most of the time turned into coyote bait Or fed to the turtles. Win win for me either way, i shoot year round.

 

[Vickischics]

Once I determine they are roos, around the 4-5 month time frame, i put them up for 2 weeks of listing for sale (most have been free) , after that they are dispatched . Sometimes we eat them, most of the time turned into coyote bait Or fed to the turtles. Win win for me either way, i shoot year round.

I do the same, We cull them.

 

[xeno0323]

Once I determine they are roos, around the 4-5 month time frame, i put them up for 2 weeks of listing for sale (most have been free) , after that they are dispatched . Sometimes we eat them, most of the time turned into coyote bait Or fed to the turtles. Win win for me either way, i shoot year round.

When you say coyote bait, you mean you just leave them outside the run? I feel awful doing that. (But worse thinking about chopping their heads off!)

 

[OzarkChooks]

If they are a rarer breed, we try to sell them. Otherwise we eat them.

 

[jus10inla]

When you say coyote bait, you mean you just leave them outside the run? I feel awful doing that. (But worse thinking about chopping their heads off!)

No. I catch them , dispatch by broomstick, then there set in a trap or one nite on a full moon i will put them in our cattle field.. then let the rifle do the rest when the yotes come to investigate.

 

[jus10inla]

you mean you just leave them outside the run?

They are free range . No run. I do lose 1 or 2 every few months. But again, i shoot year round... and have cameras runnung 24/7. Ive killed plenty predators at nite, its really the daytime hawks get me .

 

[Vickischics]

When you say coyote bait, you mean you just leave them outside the run? I feel awful doing that. (But worse thinking about chopping their heads off!)

We do it after everyone has gone to roost. That's when I get the cockerels.
My husband and I have a quick easy system to taking the head off. It's not messy for us either. Then, I bury them in the animal grave yard area where all the animals go when they die.
We/I don't have luck using the broomstick method.
So, we use the method that works quickly and easily for us and the cockerels. They even get a lil cross.