About a month before my surgery I started free ranging all of my chickens 24/7 mostly as an experiment and to make it easy for my lazy stepson to take care of them while we were gone. All he had to do is put it feed and water and go to the nesting boxes and collect the eggs once a day. I have some young birds 1/2 of which are roosters that are starting to reach adulthood and they are starting to beat up on the pullets. I have decided I want to harvest them by shooting them, since they have become sort of hard to catch. Should I be able to effectively kill large breed adult roosters with a pellet rifle? Or, do you think I will need to break out the 22.
it is very easy to get within 4 or 5 feet of them, but not so easy to get a hand on them.
it is very easy to get within 4 or 5 feet of them, but not so easy to get a hand on them.