miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
I posted this on BYC, only got one response. What do you guys think.
We were recently put in an awkward position. My farrier knows we slaughter our own chickens, She had some extra roos that she wanted gone, and figured since we knew how.... Any ways, we told her we didn't do it for fun, and we didn't really want to, --long story short--I have her two roos here.
I don't really want to do them in. One is a beautiful cubalayan, and the other IDK what he is but he's beautiful. Problem one. We have too many roos ourselves (just processed three of our own). Problem two. she just got done giving them antibiotics b/c her flock had the respiratory disease. I have the birds in isolation.
So my question is, if I chose to give them away or sell them, would they infect the flock of their future home? Or are they now carriers of the virus that they had.
I can't keep them, and I will process them if I have to. But they are beautiful and friendly. They might be great for someone else, but I don't want to give them away if they will make other chickens sick.
We were recently put in an awkward position. My farrier knows we slaughter our own chickens, She had some extra roos that she wanted gone, and figured since we knew how.... Any ways, we told her we didn't do it for fun, and we didn't really want to, --long story short--I have her two roos here.
I don't really want to do them in. One is a beautiful cubalayan, and the other IDK what he is but he's beautiful. Problem one. We have too many roos ourselves (just processed three of our own). Problem two. she just got done giving them antibiotics b/c her flock had the respiratory disease. I have the birds in isolation.
So my question is, if I chose to give them away or sell them, would they infect the flock of their future home? Or are they now carriers of the virus that they had.
I can't keep them, and I will process them if I have to. But they are beautiful and friendly. They might be great for someone else, but I don't want to give them away if they will make other chickens sick.