Well, it appears that we have a 4th rooster in the flock. Which puts our hens at 3. So 2 roosters are going to have to go. 🙁 I’ve been posting on my chicken forums looking for someone who will want a couple super sweet roosters. And now I have to get more hens too. I think I’ll get 4 laying hens, if possible. I’d love the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte breed, but those are not easy to find around here. I may have to order them as chicks in the spring. 😉
So here are a couple pics of the guys that have to find new homes. I don’t even know the breeds as we got the chicks from a local school who hatched them as a classroom science experiment. They are beautiful birds though!
You have to excuse the blurry pics, I took them with an old digital and it’s not easy getting these guys to say “cheese”!
henny penny sally fledged eleven and i think that nine are cockerels. it is hardly worth butchering the little buggers.
The great thing about roosters is they are delicious. We let them grow to full size, much longer than it takes a typical meat bird, but the feed is free since it is summer. Then into the soup or stew they go.
Hey you did good considering how nervous chickens are!