What do you do with Day old roosters?

[ShelterFarm]

I'm going to be getting started in incubating and hatching - working on breeding some Columbian Rock Crosses (Columbian Roo/RIR Hen)

If I get roos I'll keep them and get rid of them on craigslist or raise them and process them for dinners. But I'm a hobbyist, not a professional trying to make a living off of chickens - if I was a professional I don't know if I'd want to deal with the hassle of craigslist or wasting feed on them.

 

[bobbi-j]

I often buy baby boys from a hatchery(any random one) for a discount in bulks. I often get packing peanut babies(that is how my EE bantam got his name) and sometimes a few are girls!! But seriously, keep the boys.

I believe OP said they can't keep roosters. Not everyone is able to for various reasons.

 

[silkiechicken]

If I had excess boys and knew they were so at day olds, finding a snake owner or a reptile owner who needs to feed their pet is an excellent way to use that day old life. Yes, it is a life, but as life goes, it can provide nourishment to another animal vs throwing in the trash.

Even better, if you did not have the time to sell small batches of rooster chicks, perhaps there is a raptor center who could use the birds.

 

[NovaAman]

All my cockerels get processed at 16-18 weeks... I do not rehome. I feed them, then they feed me.

 

[Baxter-Shamo]

Thanks for the replies, I cant reply individually because that'd be too much trouble. I've read all of them though and I've decided to put them on the craigslist to give them a chance of life, I also added on the add the people wanting them will need to pick them up within 24 hours of them hatching. If theres any left over, they will be killed and fed to my ferrets sadly.

 

[amillecay]

Good choice, glad you're doing that! Tell us how it turns out!

 

[Baxter-Shamo]

I will do indeed

 

[Gomes Bantams]

I believe OP said they can't keep roosters. Not everyone is able to for various reasons.

I ment until a apporopriate age...

 

[DMRippy]

Thanks for the replies, I cant reply individually because that'd be too much trouble. I've read all of them though and I've decided to put them on the craigslist to give them a chance of life, I also added on the add the people wanting them will need to pick them up within 24 hours of them hatching. If theres any left over, they will be killed and fed to my ferrets sadly.

Just a suggestion, leave the word KILLED out of the ad and just say fed to ferrets. You might get some emails you don't want if you say KILL a day old chick

 

[lovinchicks]

What about selling the chicks straight run and not sexing them at all?