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what do you do with spare cocks?

  • 23-11-2011 5:56pm
    #1
    whelan1
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    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?


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  • #2
    Mothman
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    Eat them.
    We got 17 cocks out of 27 eggs


  • #3
    BeeDI
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?

    We had a 4 cocks, in the last batch. Small add in local supermarket, and we had customers in two days. Marrons as well.
    There is a lot of people getting back into breeding their own. So market for cocks is alive again. At least in this area.


  • #4
    Askim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Askim


    whelan1 wrote: »
    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?

    Round here they usually run for election :D:)



    Couldn't resist


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    justbored
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #6
    BeeDI
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    Askim wrote: »
    whelan1 wrote: »
    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?

    Round here they usually run for election :D:)



    Couldn't resist
    And Ye vote for them!! Couldn't resist.


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  • #7
    lanod2407
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭lanod2407


    Had 7 hens - or so I thought until 2 of them developed into really fine specimens of healthy cocks. TBH I was reluctant to let them go because they were really fine birds, but didn't want them, put them on done deal on a recent Friday at 11am and they were gone before 4 pm --- albeit for free.


  • #8
    Dusty87
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    justbored wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Thought adverts dont allow the sale of animals.


  • #9
    Askim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Askim


    whelan1 wrote: »
    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056463556

    W1 were you in mullingar recently per chance ????:D:D;)

    Job for Columbo me thinks

    A


  • #10
    justbored
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    whelan1
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    Askim wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056463556

    W1 were you in mullingar recently per chance ????:D:D;)

    Job for Columbo me thinks

    A
    nope:)


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  • #12
    Tora Bora
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    whelan1 wrote: »
    we hatched 15 eggs and got 8 cocks! most of which are fully grown now, most of which are pure bred marrons , as there is no market for cocks what do you do with them ?


    If you decide to kill them for the table, make sure you bring to a properly licenced abbatoir, and you fill out copious amounts of government forms in triplicate and lodge with the relevant authorothies:cool: Just to keep Reilig happy;).


  • #13
    reilig
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    Tora Bora wrote: »
    If you decide to kill them for the table, make sure you bring to a properly licenced abbatoir, and you fill out copious amounts of government forms in triplicate and lodge with the relevant authorothies:cool: Just to keep Reilig happy;).

    Don't be abnoxious!

    I merely pointed out on the other thread that if home slaughtering was legal, every joe soap and unskilled slaughterer would be killing animals in their back garden "for their own use" (and to share around or sell the extra).

    One slip, or one bad press story and irish meat exports will be banned from every country in the world which would ruin the income of every farmer in the country.

    Rules are there for a reason, we should not risk the livelihoods of all rural farmers over a sensible and beneficial rule!!


  • #14
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Askim wrote: »
    Round here they usually run for election :D:)



    Couldn't resist

    The Irish Government have a sent a few to Europe in recent years too - theres one well fed boyo potentially on the way as I type;)


  • #15
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Mothman wrote: »
    Eat them.
    We got 17 cocks out of 27 eggs
    What age do you kill them at?


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