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Lots of great replies on this thread. It has me thinking the past few days. Thank you to all. Does any one have any ideas on how I might be able to get my cornish crosses to forage more on their own? With my full time job and lifestyle I dont have the time to move a tractor twice a day and...

I wasn’t trying to sound condescending or argumentative in the slightest. Sorry if it came off that way. I’m all for trying to be different and marketing using those techniques. I don’t have the physical ability or equipment currently to move a chicken tractor daily and personally I find them...

For locally grown poultry, there is essentially no competition. I can not think of anyone within a 40 mile radius doing this. I work in agriculture sales and am fairly well networked in the area because of that. I flat out cannot think of one outfit offering farm fresh birds in my area. I...

Definitely a different area for sure. I'm in the middle of an extremelely rural corn and soybean area and the only large commercial livestock farms in the area are swine farms. Theres plenty of small farmers that sell freezer beef and pork (myself included), but no one really deals with...

What would meat birds bring in your area? I know it varies all over so I am just curious

I process the birds that my wife and I eat, but i have a yardbird plucker and an 8x10 meat cooler on the property. All the dirty work is done outside and the clean work in the 35 degree cooler. my problem is I shiver when I work not sweat haha. These birds I hauled to a processor since I was...

I raised a batch of Cornish Cross chickens recently from Welp Hatchery and kept accurate records of inputs and outputs. I have raised our own birds before, but on this batch I raised extras and sold to family and close friends. This was a sort of trial run to see if I could expand this...