two days before I plan on eating them, so they can wet age in the chill chest. and "now" - they won't be big birds, but they will be tender.
I wish you every fortune in rehoming them, where they may well end up in someone else's pot, or on their grill, or in the oven. The reality is, its often difficult to find an interested home, particularly if you demand they claim the birds will be kept as pets.
You could try, budget and space permiting, a second house and run, maintain a bachelor flock with its view of the hens blocked. Some posters here, such as @RoostersAreAwesome , can provide a tremendous amount of advice and experience re: bachelor flocks.
and if you plan on getting chicks in the future - especially if you have difficulty rehoming these - I recommend you either stick to sex links you, personally, can readily identify (because the farm store employees are terrible at it, and vent sexing is only around 90%) - or you find a purpose for your "excess" Roos which you can stomach. Because its a safe bet that otherwise, you've more cockerels in your future.
I wish you every fortune in rehoming them, where they may well end up in someone else's pot, or on their grill, or in the oven. The reality is, its often difficult to find an interested home, particularly if you demand they claim the birds will be kept as pets.
You could try, budget and space permiting, a second house and run, maintain a bachelor flock with its view of the hens blocked. Some posters here, such as @RoostersAreAwesome , can provide a tremendous amount of advice and experience re: bachelor flocks.
and if you plan on getting chicks in the future - especially if you have difficulty rehoming these - I recommend you either stick to sex links you, personally, can readily identify (because the farm store employees are terrible at it, and vent sexing is only around 90%) - or you find a purpose for your "excess" Roos which you can stomach. Because its a safe bet that otherwise, you've more cockerels in your future.
