Read rooster requirements below. If your boy(s) qualify, place your order for enrollment. We are available on Saturdays between 8am -5pm. When heading out on Saturday, text 303-359-9484 with your ETA and name on your order.
 
How to Relinquish Your Roo:
 
Step 1 - Determine if your rooster(s) meets health/ age / behavior requirements.
Perfect Health. Several families entrust us to provide a safe home for the roosters that they enroll. This is only possible if we are picky about the health of new members. Roosters need to be 100% healthy and never experienced any illness that required antibiotics to recover within his lifetime. No feathers should be missing, no mites, no lice, no bumble foot, no genetic defects or injuries.
 
Adults only. While it is okay to be COCKY and use FOWL language, only ADULTS are allowed. To join in with similar sized gents, he must have a fully developed manly voice and be able to be outside in the winter without any supplemental heat (at least 3 months old). If you identify you have young boys earlier, you may pre-enroll to hold a reservation and bring out once of age.
 
Gentlemen, No fighting. He must not be aggressive in any way. Roosters aggressive towards small children or others are not eligible. Aggressive behavior is defined as the rooster will run towards you when your back is turned or pecks at your feet.
 
Step 2 - Determine your rooster(s) purpose.
Pet Only: In addition to health, behavior, and age requirements, Pet Roosters must be used to being held frequently. This selection is for roosters that were raised like family (often held by children) and are strictly for pet rooster adoption only. As long as they meet above pet requirements, they will have a forever home with us unless adopted. We invest over $675 to care for each pet rooster we provide a home for. Materials/ financial donations and families that choose to purchase from our farm allows us to cover most of the fees to support the Gentlemen’s club allowing us to offer a low one-time fee to intake roosters including those that were not originally purchased from us.
 
Harvest after 90 days: Not all roosters are of pet quality. Statistically, for every hen born there is an unwanted rooster counterpart. Even in a non-city flock, only 1 rooster is needed to support 8 hens (resulting in 87.5% of unneeded roosters). We do not believe in suffocating/grinding up day old male chicks. Even if the boy’s purpose is to provide nourishment, they deserve the best possible life. It should be an emotional difficult connection to the bird that offers its life so that we can live through its nourishment. Offering heritage raised roosters to responsible meat eaters allows families to choose roosters raised right versus funding the factory farmed plastic wrapped counterpart in the grocery store. This bypasses the cruelty of how a meat bird is raised in a factory and offers the most humane harvesting. We believe in giving animals a nice natural life on our homestead and providing humane harvesting when needed. This selection provides for a rooster’s accommodations over a 90-day period to try to rehome. If no home is found, we may choose to humanely harvest to provide room to accept more city roosters needing a place to go.
 
Harvest after 60 days: This selection provides for the rooster's accommodations over a 60-day period to try to rehome. If no home is found, we may choose to humanely harvest as needed.
 
Harvest after 30 days: This selection provides for the rooster’s accommodations over a 30-day period to try to rehome. If no home is found, we may choose to humanely harvest as needed.
 
Step 3 - Select the Rooster's Roots
Accidental Rooster Purchased as a female chick from us?
You do not need to enroll. We offer a free home to all accidental roosters that were purchased as a female chick from us. Simply text your original order number and breed to 303-359-9484. The rooster must be in perfect health to return. In addition to providing a free home to those purchased from us with female coverage, we also provide a store credit based on original purchased price.
 
Accidental Rooster Obtained Elsewhere?
It is typically harder to find pet homes for roosters that come from hatchery/feed store bloodlines. Thus, there is a higher enrollment fee for roosters that were not purchased from us.
 
Too many Roosters from a batch of unsexed chicks purchased from us?
We have huge success in finding homes for the roosters with our bloodlines. The roosters often are able to find homes where families raise as pets, show, or want to improve the breed. Thus, we offer a significant discount on roosters that were purchased as unsexed chicks from us. Please note: A valid receipt is required for this discounted option.
 
Roosters that were hatched from our hatching eggs?
If you purchased the rehoming option for roosters, you do not need to enroll. If purchased notating you do not need the rehoming option and later change your mind, enroll selecting obtained from hatching our eggs. Please note: A valid receipt is required for this discounted option.
 
Step 4 - Check out and finalize your online order.
 
Step 5 - Improve chances of your rooster getting adopted.
Improve the chances of your rooster finding an adoptive family. Typically, the friendliest roosters that have a description with photos/videos from their original family will find adoptive homes quicker. Click here to create a post about your rooster. We often get similar named roosters, so it helps to notate the breed and name of your rooster in the title of the post. It makes it easier for the new family to find your post and provide follow-up photos and information after adoption should they wish to. The goal is for the original family to create the post and the adoptive family to add comments with photos/videos which gives heartwarming peace of mind to the original family. To avoid having to redo the post, make sure photos and videos are fully loaded before pressing "publish". It is easiest to write the post and publish, then update with photos/videos to avoid retyping.
 
Step 6 - Text 303-359-9484 on the Saturday between 8am - 5pm when ready to bring your rooster out.
 
Financial Commitment. While we invest our own funds to cover >90% of the financial responsibility to provide quality continued life time care, we require a small one-time enrollment fee for each rooster intake. For families that believe in what we do or want to contribute more, we accept material and financial donations. Here's the breakdown: $5000 Coop large enough to support each set of 50 Roosters, $5000 fencing to support a free ranging run for each set of 50 Roosters, $200 Feeders/waterers for 50 Roosters, $23,725 Feed costs per 5 years of care (26 cents a day per Adult). Thus, $678.50 is our average total financial investment to care for each rooster relinquished to our farm.($23,725 + $200 +$5,000 +$5,000)/50 Roosters= $678.50. The actual costs fluctuate as several boys can easily live for 10 years which would double our investment to give these boys a fulfilled life, while a few lucky gentlemen are adopted by loving families that can give the boys a flock of their own which helps us with room to intake more boys in need.