We have 4 free ranging hens that are now 24 weeks. We also have 24 free ranging roosters that we are raising for meat, they are 13 weeks. They are ready to butcher at 15 to 18 weeks and we will be doing that in small batches. We do confine the birds at night because of foxes, the roosters...
We are just getting started on our little farm we want. We started with meat birds after seeing some of the horrible treatments that our store bought chickens go through. We started with 10. The person we got them from said they would go lazy and not go 3 feet for water by 49 days old. We...