What do you do with your excess cockerels?

[DancingWthDucks]

I've got a talent at hatching cockerels. The resulting chicks of my last two hatches were 1 pullet and 7 cockerels. I try to rehome mine but it always takes forever. What do you do with your excess cockerels?

 

[sourland]

Depending upon the breed , I eat them as fryers or raise them for roasting.

 

[Chaos18]

All extra boys get eaten.

 

[Gammond]

even though my roosters aren't for meat, I plant to butcher at 16ish weeks and use for casseroles.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I try to rehome mine but I'm afraid if they don't find anywhere suitable they are culled and put out as fox bait. My breeds are on the small side (Bantams) so not really worth the effort of growing on, butchering and eating. They certainly don't go to waste though. I would much rather do this than take them to auction where they certainly could end up in unscrupulous hands and have goodness knows what kind of life. I look at it as they have had a good well cared for life with me and the end is quick.

 

[Gray Farms]

Eat em

 

[aart]

I try to rehome mine but I'm afraid if they don't find anywhere suitable they are culled and put out as fox bait. My breeds are on the small side (Bantams) so not really worth the effort of growing on, butchering and eating. They certainly don't go to waste though. I would much rather do this than take them to auction where they certainly could end up in unscrupulous hands and have goodness knows what kind of life. I look at it as they have had a good well cared for life with me and the end is quick.

Bantams can be eaten....about the same size or larger than quail.

I eat my extra cockerels too, before 16 weeks they make it onto the grill for that crispy skin deliciousness, then the grilled bones make killer stock.

 

[bobbi-j]

We eat ours. Bantams are edible - just takes a few more to get a meal!