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[sootem]

I am curious about the following:

 

What happens to all the baby cockerels given that few of us seem to be able to have one because of noise issues?

Susan

[Happybunny]

Last year I hatched some pekin bantam eggs in an incubator and all 3 that hatched were cockerels. I was really fond of them so I kept one ( I have only one neighbour), kept one at the school where I work and one was sadly got by a fox. My friend says she will get her husband to dispatch the unwanted cockerel chicks and I think some people eat theirs.

[sootem]

OH dear, how sad. I couldn't eat my pet

Susan

[Duckmomma]

Going by what I have read on other forums...

 

despatched and disposed of

Raised for the table

given to local farms or other poultry keepers who want them

Taken out and just released

kept and put in low dark box at night (sometimes under stairs or in cuboard) to prevent early morning crowing

Sold to pet shops as food for snakes etc

I am sure the list is endless

 

I had a cockeral years ago, and he was put in a dark box around 6pm till aroun 9.30 am, it worked fine, my neighbour and I loved to hear him crow during the day so we were happy, don't know about the rest of the neighbourhood tho

Edited May 18, 2008 by Guest

[Cooks]

OH dear, how sad. I couldn't eat my pet

Susan

 

me neither I couldn't rear animals for my table at all, I get too attached to them.

[SLK69]

hadn't really thought about bring a cockeral indoors during the night what a top idea

[Snowy]

Sadly, for every hybrid hen that is bred for either the farmers or for our gardens, at least one cockerel chick has had to be disposed of. They are usually sexed at hatching and the boys are gassed.

[Egluntyne]

hadn't really thought about bring a cockeral indoors during the night what a top idea

 

It doesn't always stop them crowing...even the merest chink of light will set them off. They have to be put in a low box so that they can't extend their necks to crow.

 

Some consider it cruel.

 

Also....they don't just crow once to greet the dawn...they crow all day long,

 

Not conducive to good neighbour relations if you live in a cul de sac.