How many birds per tractor?

[RaulandJeanette]

I was planning on moving daily but keeping in tractor. They will be inside an electric fence on pasture.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I think 2 feet per bird would be fine, since you probably won't have them for too too long

 

[Tre3hugger]

I was planning on moving daily but keeping in tractor. They will be inside an electric fence on pasture.

Nice. I use electric fence too. Sounds like a great setup/plan. Just out of curiosity, where do you source your Cornish x?

 

[RaulandJeanette]

Nice. I use electric fence too. Sounds like a great setup/plan. Just out of curiosity, where do you source your Cornish x?

I looked at getting from freedom ranger but ended up getting from Meyer hatchery. I've gotten a bunch of birds from them so went with them.

 

[nuthatched]

In what world does any chicken, especially a cornish x, need 8 sq ft per bird? This is misinformation. Please stop spreading it!

I kept 16 in an 8x4. So 2 sq ft per bird.

It's not misinformation, it's good husbandry. 8 square feet per bird is minimum for health and wellness for chickens, while you might be able to go as small as 4 square feet for smaller breeds such as Cornish x since they only live 6 weeks or bantams.
Quality of life.

 

[3KillerBs]

It's not misinformation, it's good husbandry. 8 square feet per bird is minimum for health and wellness for chickens, while you might be able to go as small as 4 square feet for smaller breeds such as Cornish x or bantams.

Cornish X meat birds are raised for 6-8 weeks then butchered.

They are, despite their giant size, chicks in a brooder with chick-sized space requirements.

 

[nuthatched]

Cornish X meat birds are raised for 6-8 weeks then butchered.

They are, despite their giant size, chicks in a brooder with chick-sized space requirements.

We must have always overdone space for ours then, we gave them space according to size. But that has merit, since they only live 7 weeks, they wouldn't know any different.

 

[iwltfum]

I've always had more problems at less than 3sqft per bird. I raise them at 30-32 birds in a 10x10 salatin pen. The climate I live in can be fairly wet though and I contribute that, in a big way, to the problems I had at higher densities.

 

[Tre3hugger]

It's not misinformation, it's good husbandry. 8 square feet per bird is minimum for health and wellness for chickens, while you might be able to go as small as 4 square feet for smaller breeds such as Cornish x since they only live 6 weeks or bantams.
Quality of life.

https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2902/2902-1083/2902-1083_pdf.pdf
This states 1.5-2 feet for Cornish X.
So does this...
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2902/2902-1083/2902-1083_pdf.pdf

 

[iwltfum]

"smaller breeds such as cornish cross" - a bit of an oxymoron, no? This person has apparently slid through the crack in the door from the laying hen area into the xxx room. When it comes to stocking density, tractors are a completely different animal, as are meat birds.