Broilers: separate coop or incorporated into the flock?

[distincthead]

I'm getting my first broilers this spring (only 10) along with an order for about 3 dozen standard breeds for eggs, give or take. I plan on just raising them all together, since they all get flock raiser as adults anyhow - but part of me feels that perhaps I'd get faster results if I could coop them up alone and better control their feed. Is that negligible? I don't mind an extra week of feeding, but I would be ****** if I ended up slowing them down considerably. What do you folks do?

 

[goldfinches]

I would separate them. The broilers will eat all the food until it's gone, every day. Plus, they're very - poopy. Nasty. not cool for your layers to live with.

I grow broilers on pasture in my yard and move them to fresh grass daily, but by a few weeks old, they're making a matted mess in just a few hours.

 

[distincthead]

Thanks for the advice, I think I'll listen to it. I've heard they are poop machines.

 

[hdmax]

I raise them together until the meat birds (CX as well as BBW's) get so lazy the other birds start plucking sores on them, I then separate them until it's time for slaughter.
I've never had an issue with the normal birds going hungry. I keep food and water in front of them 24/7.

 

[Coralietg]

I raised some Cornish with layers for 3 weeks. They didn't gain weight as quick as the meat chickens I kept in the tractor. I think a lot of it was competing with the other chickens for food.