Sorry to hear about your loss. I've had chickens for over a year, my dogs for over five years. Last week they decided to attack my young flock of layers. They killed 3 and wounded 1 out of the 12 young layers. They have been around chickens alot over the last year. I've always let my chickens...
my meat chickens turned 6 weeks old today. I ordered 75, lost one to a coon. The rest are really healthy looking. I plan on the rest making it to the chopping block.
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I raised 50 White Mountain Broilers(a strain of cornish x) this spring. I had 43 of them butchered at 8 weeks old and they dressed out at 5 - 6 lbs. average. Some were bigger at 6.5 lbs, very few dressed out smaller than 5 lbs. Very hardy birds. I only lost 3(1 to the dog, 1 got caught under...