The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: NorthWestPoultry.co.uk on February 12, 2011, 08:01:38 pm
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1 buff laced wyandotte large fowl = £12.00
1 buff laced wyandotte large fowl = £12.00
1 silver laced wyandotte large fowl =£12.00
1 black wyandotte bantom extremly nice =£12.00
1 chocolate wyandotte bantom £20.00
1 black orpington cockeral (split black) =£15.00
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you might find you struggle, as most people give them away!
i myself have 2 extras.......anyone want one?
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nope they have cost just as much to raise as a hens if not more and you wouldent give them away
always sell my cockerals :)
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nope they have cost just as much to raise as a hens if not more and you wouldent give them away
always sell my cockerals :)
good luck with that your gonna need it
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Yes, you are right about the cost of rearing cockerels. I have far too many, and have mine advertised free, but still no takers. So good luck with yours.
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Interesting psychology at work there ;D Offer cockerels free and no-one wants them, sell them and you get takers. We always did that with kittens, thinking that if people had payed for them they would value them and treat them better than if we tried to give them away. It seemed to work, and we were never left with any. Mostly we eat our Scots Grey cockerels if they are surplus to requirements, but I am hoping to do a swap with one to get a fresh bloodline. The problem is in the maths - sell trios and there will always be more males than you need, so only the best males are sold.
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will definately put a price on any cockerels we have due to the local travelling community picking up tame cockerels for their fighting birds to practise on :o Its a horrible thought but actually happening within a 3 mile radius of our home..
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Oh wow - I hadn't thought of that one :o >:( Far better to do a quick and unexpected neck stretch at home than let the poor things be used in that way. Thank you for mentioning it.
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I was really upset when I first heard about it, still angry now.
one of the mums from school lives directly opposite the travellers site and her cockerel was actually stolen from his coop at night! I've been on the site as my children are friends with some of the children there and they are huge game birds that they use too, really quite sad and scary >:(
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I would rather kill my cockerels than think of them going for fighting. I may put a price on my cockerels and see what happens! In desperation, was going to put the bantam ones into trios, but am reluctant to see my females I have bred, as they have just come into lay!!
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Hens for laying or selling. Cockerels for meat. Simples.
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always seem to get takers for mine as people want them for breeding fair enough rubbish cross cocks or poor quality worthless ones
but all mine are of good quality and fully grown
any rubbish i get its a clithroe job were the ethnic people take them for pound a piece to kill and eat :P
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:)Yes I have got pestered in Clitheroe car park to sell my cockerels for £1 ......the racket is driving me mad, all crowing together, so £1 each sounds very tempting just now!!