How to find someone to help cull a cockerel

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Hi All,
I have a lovely Dark Brahma Cock who I need to get rid of (there is an advert - he is free if you want him!). Assuming the likely situartion that nobody will take him, I will need to cull him. I've culled a few smaller birds for the table before, but he is so huge I doubt that my technique is good enough to confidently do the deed - he is a really nice bird, and I'd hate him to suffer. Does anyone have any advice on how to find someone to cull chickens - I'm in Dorset. Ideally I'd like to keep the carcass, he feels like he would be good eating, but I guess most people who would do the deed would rather have a nice chicken in payment than some cash...
Thanks all!!
Nick
 
What method do you use? If you don't think your strong enough have a look on YouTube for the broomstick method, that way is quite easy

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I tend to try cevical dislocation - but I've never been sure enough that the bird is dead, so I always then decapitate it. TBH my biggest problem here is that unlike the other cocks I've dispatched, who tend to be nasty pieces of work bullying the hens and making me chase after then to catch them, this one is super friendly, all the hens love him and he waddles over for corn and a tickle under the beak.
I'll take another look at the broomstick method tho - thanks!

Nick
 
You could either look on the Internet for experienced chicken breeders in your area who might be willing to either do the deed, or supervise and help you so you gain confidence. Alternatively you could take him to the vet to be PTS painlessly, which I do with my pet hens when they need a kind exit. Worth the fee, around £20 , to me, after all the pleasure they give me over the years, just to watch them going peacefully to sleep on the table in front of me.
 
Seems such a shame Nick, to lose such a lovely bird. As Marigold says, for the avoidance of doubt and to ensure the kindest exist go to the vet if he can stand the travelling. Alternatively can you shoot him in the head with an air rifle just behind the eyes -not sure I could, but one day I will have to as I can't play at neck dislocation.
 
Hurrah!!!!
A local breeder is planning on playing with colors in her Brahma flock, so Jean Luc P'Kaak has found a new home, making sweet lurve to alllll the laydeeeez.
(apologies for my Star Trek themed chicken names...)
 
Coz chickens go P'Kaaaaaak (sort of). Its a clever combination of a chicken noise and a star trek character. Of course I use the term 'clever' here *very* loosely!!
 
Thanks for that Nick. I'll sleep better tonight. Yes, it is a clever combination -probably unique. We are very uninventive with our names. Our Lucy Legbar is possibly the most frequently used name for a Cream Legbar of all.
 
Well, Jean Luc is in his new home - quite enjoying being taken from a muddy allotment and then let loose in a lovely big barn widn dry straw on the floor. Dont worry, this isnt a closed barn like barn reared chicken barn, it is just a part of the huge farm he will get to roam freeley around with his new friends. Its a lovely place to get chickens, so of course I came home with two new ones to add to the flock. A bluebell (tentatively named Talas) and a sussex star (Deanna Troi). I've also tried to reintroduce my bolshy Welsummer to the flock at the same time, so all six of my girls are locked in together. Fingers crossed the shock of new chickens will shake up the flock enough for them all to get on..
 
Good luck with that Nick. Its usual to quarantine new birds for two weeks, but you obviously trust your supplier. Bluebells are funny creatures, see how you get on. Great names, but I am not that familiar with the later series. Interest wained when Spock went.
 
Well, that was a partial success.
The two newcomers are getting on OK, but the Welsummer found her nemesis - my little speckledy (who remebered her well, and ran in terror) and proceeded to pull all the feathers out of the top of her head until she bled.
Welsummer is now in permanent isolation in our back garden.
Ho hum..
 
bad luck Nick. We've had pecking order reversal with reinstated hens. Our only Buff Laced Wyandotte Jemima was the bottom of the pecking order and constantly bullied. She refused to be re-homed before we left (with Jasmine and Jessica) so stayed. When we shuffled around here to get the cockerel in with all the Wyandotte hens she was introduced to him first as she was the lowest in the pecking order. As we introduced the higher ranks she proceeded to beat them up and now sits about third of seven.
 
Glad that your cockerel problem was resolved.
I went on a culling course, not because I'm a bloodthirsty killer, but thought as a responsible hen keeper and hatcher of chicks the knowledge might be useful, it has been.
My first experience of a fox attack, left me devastated, with one 8 week old chick dead with the legs taken off through a 1/2inch gap in an egg box, and another one alive but severely injured, I did not know how to help it. I made up my mind never again do I want to see such injuries and feel useless and unable to help.
I am a total softy, but do feel that my girls deserve my best care.
The course was down in Hampshire, but I believe they are run countrywide.
 
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