How would you go about fattening up six birds in a month?

[RollinWithTheStones]

I have six production red birds, they are scheduled to be processed mid June. So I would have about 4 weeks to "fatten" up the birds.

How would you go about doing that?

They're kind of skinny and I want them to be the size of a regular laying hen in a month, I'm not trying to make them obese like Cornish crosses.

 

[Clackclack]

How about going to the grocery store instead... they are animals, not eating machines for human consumption!

 

[popsicle]

I have six production red birds, they are scheduled to be processed mid June. So I would have about 4 weeks to "fatten" up the birds.

How would you go about doing that?

How old are they now, and how much do they weigh? Pullets, cockerels?

How about going to the grocery store instead... they are animals, not eating machines for human consumption!

So, I'm wondering, what are the chickens at the grocery store?

 

[Clackclack]

The chickens at the grocery store are most likely inhumanely or, should I say, unchickenly treated, to maximise growth and profit. The point of 'backyard chickens', I thought, was to do better than that...

 

[NikonD2xer]

How about going to the grocery store instead... they are animals, not eating machines for human consumption!

They are eating machines and the only reason to raise them is for human consumption.

What do you you will find in the grocery store under the sign CHICKEN .

To fatten them up i would go with high protein and restrict the area they have to run.

 

[donrae]

I agree, how old are they now?
Higher protein will add more muscle, restricting exercise will add weight overall and supposedly make the meat more tender. Corn will add a nice layer of fat under the skin.

 

[Clackclack]

They are actually sentient beings like all animals that some humans choose to eat.

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

How about going to the grocery store instead... they are animals, not eating machines for human consumption!

Holy crap no one said I was going to feed them till they explode. If you're offended by putting a bit of weight on a bird that is going to be eaten perhaps you shouldn't have responded.

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

I agree, how old are they now?
Higher protein will add more muscle, restricting exercise will add weight overall and supposedly make the meat more tender. Corn will add a nice layer of fat under the skin.

they just turned 15 weeks and are still kinda small (they're the runts of the pack). I opted to not go with Cornish crosses because the poor things were awful to raise last year and these chicks were a bargain. I don't buy meat from the store because I cannot see how it is raised there fore I don't want to support factory farming with false labels like free range and and organically fed. I know that it doesn't matter how much range they have if they're raising cornish crosses they don't free range.

Sorry if I offended anyone by wanting to put a bit of weight on birds that are going to slaughter.

 

[RollinWithTheStones]

They are pullets. I got them as straight run, but there were no cockerels in the batch

How old are they now, and how much do they weigh? Pullets, cockerels?



So, I'm wondering, what are the chickens at the grocery store?