Can someone help me with the meaties?

[KatyTheChickenLady]

lol nooo, actually I didn't get them to that weight someone else did. they knew nothing about chickens and threw them out in the barnyard to fend for themselves at about two weeks old, those girls got to 20 lbs at 6 months old BY FREE RANGING ONLY!!!!
Come winter they brought them to me (because that's what everyone thinks they can do with unwanted chickens), and I am sad to say that I took advantage of their lovely gene pool and crossed and recrossed them. Certainly the activity with the roo hastened their demise, but they will live on forever in my free ranging meat bird program.

Both Dorrie and Gloria died peacefully in their sleep, we could tell the end was coming and treated them very special; by then they were the most beloved pets on the place, so no they weren't eaten by anybody.

 

[sonew123]

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20lbs free reanging??? holy cow! I plan on moving my tractor 1x a day with huge amounts of grass that I have refused to mow just for this. I have a long strip of grassy yard-about 400 feet by 20 ft I figure-move it everyday and by the time Im done to the end it will be time to start at the top again were these broilers?? I wouldnt mind keeping a breeding pair but I hear you cant as the birds wont survive long enough to lay? either way-sweet story Katy -whata good mommy- cant blame you not eating them-my morbid curiosity got the best of me

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

yes you absolutely must move that darn tractor every day. Also, a really good squirt down of the grass right after you move it helps that lovely poop crust work it's way down to the soil.
Yes, D&G were just hatchery CX bought at a feed store. But just hold off on getting some because next year I will be selling their decendents . . . IDAHO MOUNTAIN RANGERS & IDAHO RED RANGERS; free ranging, sustainable meat birds

then you can keep two and breed your own the next year!