What does everyone do with all the xtra males

[pheasantfrenzie]

Hi Everyone,
I am just wondering what everyone does with all there xtra males from hatching and if you sell them how the heck do you do it????
I still have about 12 fully colored red, yellow, amherest males and now a couple from this year. I love having them and they are great to have around but I am thinking of selling some and just wondering what everyone else does?

 

[Tony K T]

You could throw them all in a pen and have a bachelor pad so if you lose one you'll have a back up.You would need to keep them away from any hens though.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[cafarmgirl]

Lots of people process and eat their extra roo's, others list them on craigslist or take them to auctions. That's the reason I don't hatch my own, I just don't want the hassle of dealing with the extra roo's.

 

[pheasantfrenzie]

Wish there was auctions here. They are too nice to eat and I know they wouldn't have much meat on them anyways.
Thanks Tony I do have them in a bachleor pad pen with no females and it is so funny they still do there dance and chase each other around.I will have to post the video if I can figure out how to. Someone emailed before about it but I lost the info.

 

[pheasantworld9]

I put some of my ringneck males in a pen(bachelor pad) with no hens near and they destroyed each other in fights and stuff. Lost 3 very good males

 

[Mehjr10]

We Process ours, use them for soups, Chicken dumplings or crockpot cooking..

 

[wildlifeartist1]

They will kill each other with out hens just as bad as with them! best just to sell them soon

 

[pheasantworld9]

Thanks for the help! I'll try my best!

 

[Pavomuticus]

Some people most be getting rid of surplus males through sites like this one, http://www.featheremporium.com/full-skins.html and http://www.ebay.com/bhp/fly-tying-skins, worth considering if you where going to eat them, as you can still eat the flesh, nothing is wasted. Otherwise you just have to advertise them at a discounted price or a have a male pen.

 

[pheasantfrenzie]

Yikes I don't think I could do that to them but thank you for the info I really do appreciate and maybe in the future I may do that but I would have to sell them to somebody because I wouldn't have the heart to do it myself