How many times a year do you raise meat birds?

[steveo]

I finished up my first batch of birds last month and the meat is going fast. I am planning on doing another batch of birds to fill the freezer again. I was just curious about how many times everybody else raises meat birds per year. Do you do them all at once or break it up to multiple times per year?

 

[saddina]

5 or 6, no birds June>Aug Usually new chicks have arrived a few days before processing the last batch... Example Sept chicks get processed around halloween, but Oct 20th the next batch of chicks come. 75 At a time (raised at Granny's for all 3 houses).

 

[mtnhomechick]

This is my second batch of 45. I did 25 in the spring.

 

[chickenbottom]

i will be doing my first meat birds next spring when i have most money lol

 

[SteveP612]

Once a year raise enough to make it through the whole year

 

[quercus21]

Right now, we are doing twice a year. The spring group (beginning of May till the end of June) approximately 25-30 birds. The fall group, beginning of August till the end of September 30 - 40 birds. The fall group depends on what is left from the spring group. I try to put enough birds away for a year.

 

[okiron]

How big are your families and how many birds lasts you a year?

 

[19sarah90]

I'm subscribed and am waiting an answer as well. I am part of a very large family and am butchering our first birds in August. I'd like to have more for a fall butcher, but how many?

 

[Peruvian]

Our family of four go through 40 birds last year (10 others were traded for a year's worth of eggs). We do two batches of 25-30 each.

 

[quercus21]

2 adults and 2 college kids, I have swapped/traded chickens for other types of food during the year. We are having the first of this years processing this thursday or friday....