How Should I House 100 Roosters!

[Alaskan]

Had lunch today at Chick-fil-A. I wonder what breed of chicken they use?

Gotta be cornish cross. The breasts on those beasts!!!

 

[Duckstail]

Had lunch today at Chick-fil-A. I wonder what breed of chicken they use?

I thought it was a buffalo I never seen a breast that big!!!!

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I have 100 rooster chicks being delivered... I am having a hard time deciding how to house them. I will brooder them in my coop that has a floor. My first thought was to make a temporary coop in a section of my barn. But I felt it would be too messy....

I vote for the barn. If these birds are something on the order of a Cornish Cross then we are not talking about a super active chicken. CX birds mostly just sit and lay around on the ground and digest their feed. On the right kind or maybe the wrong kind of food a 60 day old CX may weigh in excess of 9 pounds. Don't worry about them crowing, by the time that they are old enough to cock-a-doodle-do you should have all 100 of these roosters safely housed in your deep freezer.

 

[Foxslayer16]

I vote for the barn. If these birds are something on the order of a Cornish Cross then we are not talking about a super active chicken. CX birds mostly just sit and lay around on the ground and digest their feed. On the right kind or maybe the wrong kind of food a 60 day old CX may weigh in excess of 9 pounds. Don't worry about them crowing, by the time that they are old enough to cock-a-doodle-do you should have all 100 of these roosters safely housed in your deep freezer.

they are not cornish

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I understand, but names like Cornish Crosses and CornishX etc are in reality catch phrases that are trade marked by the poultry company to prevent a competing chicken breeding company from finding out the exact makeup of their fowl and selling a strain of chickens under the same or a similar name. A chicken like I described does not have to be a Cornish Cross to have the characteristics that I listed.

 

[aart]

I am thinking it will be crazy for 4 to 5 months.
Here is the link I ordered the roosters from. Don't click it if you are weak like me.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=FPBM

Not sure I'd fry, or broil, a bird that old....these are not meat breeds.

"This all-rooster chick bargain may include one or more of the following breeds: Golden Buff, Rhode Island Red, Jersey Giant, Salmon Faverolles, Speckled Sussex, Marans, Welsummer, Black Australorp, Plymouth Rock, Orpington, Wyandotte, Buckeye, Dominique or any heavy breed rooster we offer. These roosters take longer to reach butchering size and won't be as large as the broilers, but good things come to those who wait."
They won't be as tender either.

 

[Papaw-John]

Not sure I'd fry, or broil, a bird that old....these are not meat breeds.
They won't be as tender either.

Not worried, the main way my wife cooks chicken it to brown in a skillet and cook down slowly in gravy. Serve over rice. So Good!

 

[aart]

Wonders too....how will you slaughter them all and how big of a fridge and freezer do you have?
This is my dilemma, fridge not big enough to rest many carcasses at once(I rest the cleaned carcasses for 48-72 hours before cooking or freezing-much more tender meat if you wait for rigor to pass)...and also not space in freezer. Gonna have to get another fridge freezer this year.

 

[Papaw-John]

Wonders too....how will you slaughter them all and how big of a fridge and freezer do you have?
This is my dilemma, fridge not big enough to rest many carcasses at once(I rest the cleaned carcasses for 48-72 hours before cooking or freezing-much more tender meat if you wait for rigor to pass)...and also not space in freezer. Gonna have to get another fridge freezer this year.

Those are good questions I need to consider!
I have a large Deep Freeze that is empty I was planning on using to freeze them. I never thought about resting them. Does that make them a little more tender?
I guess I can quick chill them in large ice chests of ice water. Once they are cold I could put them in the deep freeze with my temp controller on it. It will turn it on and off to maintain any temp I set it to. I have several of them. What would be a good rest temp 38 degrees, or a little warmer?

As far as cleaning, I hate hand plucking, so I am going to use this as an excuse to make a chicken plucker. 100 rooster will definitely motivate me to invest in it. I may order the bottom plate and pulleys off eBay. These cheap roosters are going to cost me a lot of money, but I will be set up better.

So many things I did not think of before ordering these 100 roosters!

 

[obieandhisgirls]

i suggest making alot of runs and just separating them because somtimes they will fight when there are too many in a pen i think fencing of several pens up in a field will work and make them each a little house that they can go in at night so nothing gets them