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  1. ade-chick

    How do you sell chickens for meat?

    If you are looking for fast Growth go with the Cornish Cross, Moderate Growth and still have a bird that moves and forages more try the Freedom Ranger, or there are many duel purpose birds that will give you a smaller bird that may take 4 to 5 month to harvest.
  2. ade-chick

    How late in the year can I go with pastured birds

    We usually put the cornish+ out in chicken tractors at 3 to 4 weeks if the weather is nice. The cornish grow very fast and will forage better if put out fairly young
  3. ade-chick

    How late in the year can I go with pastured birds

    We did visit one of our market customers on a pasture poultry tour with Ohio State University and they had Cornish cross out in large movable pens in November and it was very cold. This was part of a research project on temperature and lighting. One pen had a solar light for a few hours compared...
  4. ade-chick

    How late in the year can I go with pastured birds

    As a Custom Processor we have free range cornish cross scheduled all the way into mid November. Remember as the days get shorter the birds will eat less (as it gets dark at 7:00 PM vs 10:00 PM that is 3 hr less daylight to eat) and grow slower. We also have more birds condemned by Inspection...
  5. ade-chick

    Need better technique for killing my Pekin ducks

    We operate a USDA custom processing plant and use an electric stun knife which is instant, But they are too expensive for the back yard processor. Next best thing we have found for an instant kill was a long handle sharp pruner called a lobber. The handle is about 2 ft long and gives enough...
  6. ade-chick

    How do you sell chickens for meat?

    My experience as an ODA-USDA processing Plant is, The laws are written so only lawyers can understand them! We on the most part have had good inspectors that were very helpful in trying to interpret the laws, but you still have some different interpretation from different inspectors. To sell at...
  7. ade-chick

    Looking for advice on a heritage meat bird

    We have Processed many different breeds of heritage chickens, and find the Buckeye to be one of the meatier birds. We have found the Standardbred chickens, meaning Bred to the standard of the breed are usually meatier than the hatchery chicks as you buy at the local farm store
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