First meat bird project

[Poultry_In_Motion]

Over this past weekend I was able to complete my meat chicken project. It was a great experience all the way through. I'd like to thank this forum for all of the info shared here.

I started with 20 cornish from TSC. I lost two pretty quickly and finished with 18 birds in the freezer. They were raised in a tractor that was moved once a day. They had 24 hour food for the first 4 weeks and 12 on 12 off for the final 4 weeks. On butchering day all the birds were healthy happy and running around. It took 2 guys only a couple of hours to butcher all of the birds. Not bad for a first timer imo.

Overall it was an enjoyable and rewarding experience. It has brought me joy to be able to fill a freezer for my family.

 

[iwltfum]

Awesome. Congrats! Just out of curiosity, what was your stocking density in your chicken tractor?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Tractor Size? Location? Yields (processed weights)?

Yes, we are glad you enjoyed it, and hopeful you did it again - but we are also hoping to leasrn from your experiences.

 

[Poultry_In_Motion]

The tractor is 6X6 but as they grew I left the door open so they had 100 ft of electric netting circling the tractor to roam in.

I'm located in Michigan.
The birds dressed out at 5-6 pounds

 

[3KillerBs]

They look great!