What to do with Roosters

[Shearert]

Hi!
We got some new chicks to add to our flock and it's looking like 4 of them are Roosters. I am wondering what people do with their roosters? We can only keep one and it seems nobody wants to take a rooster. I really dont like the idea of the, being killed just because they are roosters!

 

[The Happster]

You can keep a bachelor flock, but I'm not sure if that will work for you.
What breeds are they?
People are more likely to take a purebred roo off your hands for breeding.
The best thing to do is before taking on more birds arranging for homes for the amount that could be boys.

 

[keesmom]

If you don't want to process them or let someone else eat them, and you can't give them away then your best option is a secomd coop as a bachelor pad for the males.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have 7 roo's they all get along i also have 27hens

 

[Birdie mom]

whenever i have too many roos they turn into chicken pot pies. you could sell them, eat them, show them, or you could keep one and do something with the others. ours don't end up in the fridge just because they are boy's though, we mainly do it because whenever there are too many they hurt each other, hurt the hens, and they try to attack us sometimes.

 

[AngBantamLuv]

I have two pet/feed stores that will take roosters and resell them. People sometimes want a specific breed of rooster w their flock, without wanting to raise from a chick. Call around and see who will take them.

 

[Cheryl lowe]

You can keep a bachelor flock, but I'm not sure if that will work for you.
What breeds are they?
People are more likely to take a purebred roo off your hands for breeding.
The best thing to do is before taking on more birds arranging for homes for the amount that could be boys.

I am in similar position- have 3 cockerels and want to keep them - seperate from hens. Would it matter that one of them is a salmon faverolle and the other two peking bantams? Would the big one pick on the little two or little two pick on the big one?

 

[3mile]

I live in western pa and our local chicken farm has a rooster round up event today they will give you a free sex link chick for any bird u dont want.

 

[Mrs. K]

Only get sex linked chicks, - then you do not have to deal with this problem. All hen flocks are nice, and once the roosters move on, you really don't have any say in how those people keep them.

Good luck.

 

[NatJ]

I really dont like the idea of the, being killed just because they are roosters!

When I kill roosters, it is because they taste like chicken
(Of course, hens also taste like chicken.)