No,no,no Don't get me wrong, I would never stop feeding them or giving them shelter. I just thought my main coop with the run would be for eggs and breeding. I don't let my birds out to free range right now because they are pure and I don't want our free range birds (they moved over from a neighbors and we can't catch them, he has long since moved) breeding with them. I'm thinking a retirement coop so they can free range during the day and still coop them at night, if needed, I have a Blue heeler that is very good at protecting his birds.I would never just dump them like they are worthless. I would even have a hard time giving them to someone if I knew they were going to eat them but I do have this as an option, we have a guy up the road that ends up with alot of older birds and 4-H no longer wanted birds and he treats them very well until it's freezer time.
