I was curious what number of birds people keep for personal processing a year?
We recently acquired 22 dual purpose chickens, and are hoping to pick up some Sweetgrass turkeys this evening. We also have 3 ducks and 2 geese, athough those are all female and are for pets/eggs. Next year I hope to add a flight pen of quail. The goal is to have the animals brooding and raising their young (outside of the quail), with the chickens in a large covered run and turkeys eventually living in our orchard.
There is just the two of us, but we have chicken 3-4/week and go through 3 lbs of turkey/week on average. We were thinking that would amount to 100-150 meat chickens, but I'm not sure what number of turkeys to aim for.
Thanks in advance!
We recently acquired 22 dual purpose chickens, and are hoping to pick up some Sweetgrass turkeys this evening. We also have 3 ducks and 2 geese, athough those are all female and are for pets/eggs. Next year I hope to add a flight pen of quail. The goal is to have the animals brooding and raising their young (outside of the quail), with the chickens in a large covered run and turkeys eventually living in our orchard.
There is just the two of us, but we have chicken 3-4/week and go through 3 lbs of turkey/week on average. We were thinking that would amount to 100-150 meat chickens, but I'm not sure what number of turkeys to aim for.
Thanks in advance!
