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    Meat chicken questions-cost to raise, dressed weight vs. live weight..

    I charge my customers $12 per bird (whole bird, state certified (*rolls eyes*), vacuum packed). If you have a family of 4 that's one dinner and a pretty good soup for lunch, two meals off of one base source of protein. Assume you eat chicken every other day, thats 15 birds giving you lunch and...
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    Meat chicken questions-cost to raise, dressed weight vs. live weight..

    Quote: Free Range = a confinement raised bird that is offered the option to walk out to a 2'x3' yard. They are afraid of the outside so they never go out. Organic = a government controlled word that mega-growers have lobbied/wrangled to allow certain synthetic chemicals and doesn't take into...
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    Meat chicken questions-cost to raise, dressed weight vs. live weight..

    Cornish X has the best conversion rate of 2 to 1. My 7.5 week birds way 4lbs in their freezer bag. I think they were 5.5 when I took them to the processor. So 11lbs of feed for 4 lbs of meat, bones, skin. I want to say 50lbs of feed is $11, so that makes 25lbs of finished chicken or around 6...
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