Which boy to keep?

[HorseGirlAbby]

This is the endless question. I hatched 2, and one is a cockerel. I have a rooster, he is a good rooster, not a great one. We will see.

Thing is, just because fate handed you a cockerel, it really does not need to be the old one or the young one. You might look for a rooster somewhere else. If you are not hatching - well you could go for a spell without any roosters.

I say to myself, I keep a flock, the birds in the flock come and go, always solve for peace in the flock. It is way easier to say it than to do it.

Mrs K

Solving for peace in this instance would be eating Soup. My hens honestly love my old roo, they literally prostrate themselves before him

 

[Mrs. K]

Then eat Soup. Thing is, if the old rooster is getting some age on him, you said you were not looking for hatching chicks, so no big deal if he does not hit the mark.

You could just wait, have a very pleasant happy flock all summer and fall and winter. If the sad day comes, and you loose the old guy, well he had a great life. Then you can look around locally, roosters are a dime a dozen.

Mrs K