Dealing with rooster

[Chipmunk Chicks]

There is a animal auction in new park pa that you could take him to on Friday 13th of December. A big cockerel could get you a good price and the people buying them and they could butcher them or use them for fly fishing and some just have a big free range flocks of hens and need to replace roosters so they might need an aggressive roo

This is a nice idea, for me personally that show about 3 hours away. I didn't post any of mine at the feed store yet, but that's a possibility, too. Just not for the bulk of them.

 

[nuthatched]

We have an almost 7mo GLW rooster with 7 hens. He’s been too aggressive with them and has one of ours going through molt bare backed and bloody. Most the time we don’t free range and they have a 10x10 run. 2 of our hens would stay in the coop to avoid him. We just separated him in the pole barn with a dog crate. Any advice is helpful, I know it’s nice to have him as a protector but I don’t think it’s worth it being most of them are scared of him. I already posted a thread trying to get rid of him.

This is not good or normal behavior, glad you put him down.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

This is a nice idea, for me personally that show about 3 hours away. I didn't post any of mine at the feed store yet, but that's a possibility, too. Just not for the bulk of them.

well I wasn't sure how far away any of u guys are

 

[MyFlockIsMyLife]

Thanks everyone, we ended up culling via broomstick method.

Can I please get info on the broomstick method?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Can I please get info on the broomstick method?

Has anybody responded to your question? If not, let me know and I will pm you.

 

[aart]

Has anybody responded to your question? If not, let me know and I will pm you.

Why not post it here, so others can benefit?

Cervical Dislocation is shown in this video at about 1:00,

Click the 'Watch this video on YouTube'

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That video is disabled. Okay ... caution, this is a bit graphic.


You need a long stick like a broom handle or an axe handle. Prepare the ground by making a small trench to lay the chicken's neck in, about 4" long by an inch or two wide. Lay the bird breast side down on the ground, grasping it by the feet. If the chicken is hysterical, calm it by hypnotizing it first (see below). Lay the stick across its neck just behind its head. Place one foot on the stick beside the bird's head. Place your other foot on the stick on the other side of the bird's head. Step down firmly on the stick and pull up sharply and rapidly on the bird's feet, pulling up to about your chest. This should instantly decapitate the bird.

There will be blood and flapping for about a minute, but the bird is dead. It's a good idea to have an empty bucket on hand to put the bird in immediately, and you may wish to have a plastic trash bag in it as well.

If you do not want blood, pull up sharply but not as high, perhaps to your waist, and you will feel a snap as the neck breaks. There will still be flapping but no blood, but the bird is just as dead, as the nerves will have been severed. The flapping is due to nerves firing. If you find it distressing, placing the bird in a bucket can help. This is the fastest, easiest and most humane way of dispatching a chicken that I have found.

*Hypnotizing a chicken. Place the chicken's head on the ground. With a stick or your finger, draw a line on the ground in front of the chicken, starting right in front of its beak and pulling slowly away from the chicken for six to twelve inches. The chicken will calm down and be still. I have no idea why this works, only that it does. Chickens are a bit weird, okay?

 

[aart]

Did you....

Click the 'Watch this video on YouTube'

 

[Yardmom]

I prefer to use the broomstick method when culling. I pull chest height for a neck snap with my larger crossbreeds.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Did you....

I think I did, watched several. One was 11:45 minutes long and the lady stood talking into the camera for about 11 of those minutes.