Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

[iwltfum]

Haha oh no did I actually send that last message? I must have had a lunchtime panic attack and forgot I was going to delete that triggered and irrelevant comment about broiler customers. Lol.
Let's back way up - if I may? Ethical really depends on whose perspective you're prioritizing right? Are we talking about animal wellbeing, environmental impacts, personal finances, consumer values, etc? The answer of "what's the most ethical" shifts depending on what you are most concerned about.

 

[No Coop No Problem]

You can say that again! Customers are the worst, that's why I stopped selling my broilers. I had scaled up to 600+ pasture raised day-range broilers (freedom rangers) per season and came to the conclusion after 5 or 6 years of that, that those people are not worth it. I am worth it. My family is worth it, but I will never sell one again.

Same attitude I have with my chickens. I have never sold eggs nor meat, and only a small handful of chickens over all the years. The grocery store could never match the quality of food my chickens produce and no customer can possibly comprehend that

Selling any chicken product makes no sense until I can personally meet all the calorie needs of my family, and even then I don't want to deal with people expecting grocery store factory-farmed prices for my actually free-ranged chickens

 

[Tex452]

I’m incubating eggs from friends and family, whatever they have, RIR, black australorps leghorn, I don’t care, I will butcher the cockerels and give the pullets to my egg suppliers if they want them, the Yeild isn’t nearly as much meat as the Cornish cross, but the meat is delicious, even the leghorn.
I did buy some New Hampshire red in order to get some roosters for my egg suppliers if they want them.
Right now I’m feeding 51 chicks.