What do I do with these roosters?!

[Lpearl42]

Good morning lovely chicken peeps! I am running in to a bit of a pickle. I have 6 hens and 2 roosters. All are around 3 months. As of yet, the roosters are not attacking each other but I've caught both of them attacking my hens. I started to post them but it seems EVERYONE is currently attempting to rehome a few roosters. Sadly all of the chickens I had gotten were supposedly sexed () and I had gotten 10. 4 were roosters. I successfully rehomed 2 already, but the task of rehoming 2 more has become daunting. Any advice about other options? Could I just let them out? I'm not against processing them But I don't think I'm brave enough to do it myself. I looked into it in my area and no one will process a backyard chicken. Any and all advice is extremely welcome. I attached a couple pictures of the roosters and my set up for reference. Thank you so much for your time!

 

[Sussex19]

Just letting them out is rather cruel, imo.
Its the keepers reasonability to care for them till the end, never mind what that end is, and I would much rather give them a quick and kind death, then let them be torn apart by a predator.
If you don't feel up to processing them, could you not put them down and bury them?
I and many others can help with the 'how to do it' if you need it.
I don't have any other ideas, I'm afraid. Cockerels are always a tricky one, and a hard part of chicken keeping.

 

[Lpearl42]

Just letting them out is rather cruel, imo.
Its the keepers reasonability to care for them till the end, never mind what that end is, and I would much rather give them a quick and kind death, then let them be torn apart by a predator.
If you don't feel up to processing them, could you not put them down and bury them?
I and many others can help with the 'how to do it' if you need it.
I don't have any other ideas, I'm afraid. Cockerels are always a tricky one, and a hard part of chicken keeping.

I certainly would not have been asking for opinions if I thought that that was the right answer. I appreciate your reply and you're absolutely right. I would never want them to get such treatment.

 

[Lpearl42]

I certainly would not have been asking for opinions if I thought that that was the right answer. I appreciate your reply and you're absolutely right. I would never want them to get such treatment.

 

[Lpearl42]

That was literally just my frustration coming into play. I do know that it's to the end and I'm totally fine with figuring out a way to not let them suffer

 

[Lpearl42]

That was literally just my frustration coming into play. I do know that it's to the end and I'm totally fine with figuring out a way to not let them suffer

I sincerely apologize for being so crude. I was just very upset after one of them ripped all the feathers off of the top of one of my hens heads.

 

[Bananabread]

Have you listed them for free on CL? Where are you located? Often if near an urban environment someone with experience will delight at the possibility of a healthy, well-fed chicken for their family to eat. I would post them, with a focus on identifying someone with that experience. Some people will be concerned that it may attract people looking for cock-fighting birds. I'm not sure how common that is. There are many more aggressive bird types that are regularly on the cock-fighting circuit and i doubt these would be them. My 2 cents

 

[Lpearl42]

I have. Multiple times. I was actually able to rehome two that way. But nobody wants them. And now that they're literally getting violent, I'm having a really hard time

 

[Sussex19]

I sincerely apologize for being so crude. I was just very upset after one of them ripped all the feathers off of the top of one of my hens heads.

I quite understand, and no need to apologize. One gets all kinds of people coming up with different ideas, so I might have been a bit to blunt with my reply.
One idea, could you make a new temporary encloser, where you can separate them away for the hens? That would give you a bit more time to work something out

 

[Lpearl42]

Have you listed them for free on CL? Where are you located? Often if near an urban environment someone with experience will delight at the possibility of a healthy, well-fed chicken for their family to eat. I would post them, with a focus on identifying someone with that experience. Some people will be concerned that it may attract people looking for cock-fighting birds. I'm not sure how common that is. There are many more aggressive bird types that are regularly on the cock-fighting circuit and i doubt these would be them. My 2 cents

I live in the suburbs/country. We live on seven acres and we're centralized in the middle of it but we have all of the predators. I actually set my coop up for high protection. Because everything is scary around here. For them