You wont be dosapointed thats for sure... CCX roos taste better than hens in my opinion. I like the roos as broilers and the hens as fryers. I can flour the hens with whatever seasioning i like and fry them up. Roos grow bigger and faster than hen do to.
Just remember raising meaties are...
I have big fenced in yards for them. I have to keep them fenced in because my property backs up to the shawnee national forest. If i let them roam free they would become dinner for any number of wild animals around here.
I just cant see buying chicken at the grocery store or anywhere else that...
I disagree it seems better to put something like hay down in the yards so they are not walking in mud... i know i dont like mud, I'm sure they dont either.
I was up to 50+ chickens and 5 turkeys over the summer. But i've processrd to 21 chickens, and 3 turkey. Soon to be 19 chickens because i'm...
I use the deep beding method inside the coop. The bedding is mainly maple sawdust and planer shavings. I might have some ash shavings in there also. I do a fair share of wood working, dust and shavings from non-toxic woods go on the coop floor. I throw down a layer of barn lime and turn it when...