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Miss P, why did you grow your birds so big? Our processing plant here says 7-12 weeks or 5.5 lbs live weight. Is that too small?

Wow! That's a lot of feed. I'm raising 50, I could be in the poor house really fast. I'm not raising the Jumbos though. And my feed here is more expensive than yours. I think it's $14 something. This could get really ugly really fast here. Of course, our piggy's have been a nightmare...

I'm restricting mine, that's what lead to the morning feeding frenzy. LilRalphieRoosmama you should take it away at 7pm and give it back to them at 7am. They will probably do better I think I'm going to fill a trough with food to slip in while I put their other feeders in place in the...

I had one get trampled to death in the morning feeding frenzy. So I'm down to 49. Very sad for the little guy.

I've been keeping them at about 75 or so degrees. I think I read somewhere that you don't have to keep them as warm, because they eat so much that they create their own heat. I might be wrong, but I haven't been worrying about the extra heat so much. Maybe I should be. They really don't...

I have 50 stinky meat birds in my back room in commercial brooders. They are a little over a week old. I have a big chicken tractor outside waiting for them, but I need to know when I can put them outside. I was thinking at 3 weeks old, but thought I'd better get expert opinion...