Can meat birds and layers eat the same food?

[tragic59]

Planning to get some chickens for the first time, and trying to figure out the best way to have a "dual purpose" flock.

I would like to be able to keep all my chickens together in one coop and have a variety of breeds represented.

I'm thinking 10-12 hens and 1 rooster.

Can I feed the same type and amount of food to birds that are being raised for meat that I would feed to birds raised for laying?

 

[tragic59]

Forgot to add that I'm considering a "meat-only" breed, such as a Cornish Cross for the meat birds. As opposed to raising all "dual purpose" breeds...

 

[Omran]

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It depends on what you are getting, if you are planning on x cornish, then no they have to be bythemselves and eat a very high protin feed, whitch make them fat in 8 weeks.
But if you get dual perpose like buff Orp then no problem they can stay in the same coop and eat same feed.

 

[tragic59]

Thank you for the reply. That was what I was thinking about the Cornish X birds.

I guess I will either go with an all dual-purpose flock, or set up a separate coop/pen...