Wow! Such quick replies!! Thank-you all!!
Mac, we used shavings for bedding. Straw would have been slightly cheaper, since they were outside most of the time bedding wasn't a huge part of the expense.
You're right about butchering them ourselves too. We helped our daughter with a few in the...
We recently raised our first meat chickens. We've had layers but never raised fryers/broilers. and I was amazed at how much feed they consumed!!!
I'm picking them up from the processor tonight and when I tallied up the cost of the chicks, feed, bedding, and processing I was disappointed to find...