How old?

[abhaya]

I am getting more chickens in spring. I am looking at meat birds. What is the best age to send them to freezer camp?

 

[eKo_birdies]

depends on what specific kind of meat bird you get and how big you want it to get.

most people harvest their cornish x around 8 weeks (some at 6, some around 10) and their freedom rangers at 12-14 weeks.
those aren't the only 2 kinds of meat birds, just the 2 most talked about here.

 

[Lorije1]

I think it is more by weight. Example - my Cornishx are 5 wks old and a couple of them weigh 4lbs. I will work on their feed to try to get them to 5-51/2 pretty quick so I can process at 6 weeks, and then another group should be that weight by 7wks. (figure to lose about 1 1/2 lbs of "scraps" at processing and I want mostly 4-5lbs of meat)