Farm Drama! What do you do when you finalize the decision to cull your flock and the first and most widely stated rule of chickes rearin' was broken months ago!
'Don't name your chickens!'
So stewing and beer can chicken (so demeaning but tasty!) are out.
Dropping the roosters off at a farm supply store is an option but the folk I have seen purchasing grown birds from the farm supply are generally looking for a dinner guest. Not a yard guard. So really it is a high risk gamble.
Do you go, under the cover of darkness to a chicken friendly residence or farm (winery!) and throw the bird over the fence? Hoping that he avoids detection during the night and then is welcomed in to the strangers flock in the morning?All of those choices are fine (well sort of). But the other option, and it is an option in almost all cases is... CraigsList!
Enter Dave. The man with the chicken pen and no full grown roosters, 4 kids who really like the chickens and a father in law who feeds and tend to the birds everyday! Yep. Craigslist comes through again. Howard and Itchy should live a pretty good life with a harem of hens and protections from predators. Wonderful!
Howard and Itchy have been great birds and we will miss them but it sounds like they are going to a great home.
This leaves Samwise as our remaining rooster. This should suit him just fine as he chases the other roosters around the yard and constantly tries to assert dominance. Winner!We may get him a female cochin in the spring but for now, he'll rein over his brood quite nicely.
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