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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Roxy on March 23, 2011, 11:57:28 pm

Title: Two huts full ....
Post by: Roxy on March 23, 2011, 11:57:28 pm

one of broody bantams - total is 5 and rising, and the other hut I have got full of cockerels.  The broodies I can sit, but the occupants of the other hut, well .....I waited until it was dark last night and went round the hen houses lifting cockerels - made a din, but I managed it.  Have 7 of various sizes and breeds in there, which leaves me with two large cockerels, two Pekins, and two bantams.  Still got to catch a couple of white silkie cockerels, and keep one of those ..........

Don't ask what I am going to do with the hut full,cos I do not know!!  More than likely a trip to the market.

Title: Re: Two huts full ....
Post by: Sylvia on March 24, 2011, 08:22:43 am

Is that the broodies or the cockerels? One I would sit on eggs and the other I would put in the freezer.

Title: Re: Two huts full ....
Post by: Roxy on March 24, 2011, 10:00:54 am

Its definitely the cockerels!!  I have no objection to eating them, no problem plucking and dressing them.  OH is not a big meat eater, and would certainly not eat one of our chickens.  The cats and I enjoy our free range poultry - very tasty!!  Therefore, I think it would be a bit much to expect me to eat them all by myself .......I did like chicken, but .......and most are bantams.

Its a shame, as there are some nice coloured one among them.

I lost a lot of chicks to a hawk last summer, and it seems it left me the cockerels.  How kind was that?!!!