Order your meat chickens now

[Mrs MIA]

I ordered 50 from Welp hatchery, and the first ship date on those was April 15... I think I need to place my other orders now...

 

[fairestfinches]

Sign of the times I'm afraid.

It seems that more and more people are starting to raise their own.

The air base that I'm a Fire Fighter at was place on the BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) list. Michele and I decided that is was high time to use our land to it's full potential and start keeping laying hens. After alot of research I decided on Australops and haven't looked back. They lay like clock work. We had been thinking about meat birds and I made the plunge today when we picked up 10 Cornish X at the local F&HS (Farm and Home Supply). I spoke with the person in charge of ordering chicks and she said that normally chicks don't sell as fast ad they have this year. I guess it has been more traditional farmers that have been buying them in the past, and not so many sudo farmers.

While saving money was iniailly my driving force. . . Now that I have had my own laying chickens, and had the best eggs since I was a kid (my family had farm chickens growing up) I think quality is more important than just saving money.

I'd prefer to save a few bucks but, so what if it costs me a bit more to raise my own meat birds. . . The peace of mind knowing the meat is safe to eat and the better tasting meat is well worth it.

In my efforts to safe a few bucks and stick to the man a few of my friends have also started keeping laying hens and are looking at keeping meat birds as well. They aren't looking back either.

So goes the revolution.

Sean

 

[paduanchook]

talking about waiting, i ordered fm ideal today and its gonna be may 6 b4 they are shipped, and i cud only get 12 cubalayas. i guess i shud be grateful that i can get any. i ordered cornish early in year(feb). they put in some white chicks as extras, and they are nearlhy 3x the size of my cornish so i know now they are coirnish x. it just doesnt seem natural to me anything cud grow that fast, i hope they are gonna taste good cause i know they cant live long so i might as well butrher em up for a good bbq, huh?