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Crossing the Road
Have you read the slow food site? Good things there for heritage bird raisers. You want health-conscious, aware customers. Even your Cornish-X birds are raised healthier than the store birds. Do you use antibiotics? Industrial chickens can not survive with out them. Your girl in the photo has already lived twice as long as a store bird, eaten grass & bugs & scratched in the dirt. Seen the sun. Just that photo is all you need to sell your Cornish-X at a farmer's market. For feed conversion to meat, nothing can beat those Cornish-X. Read some of Joel Salatin's books, if you have not. For a toe in the water, the birds you have are a good place to start. Making money with them is more about selling them, than raising them, as others here have mentioned. Word of mouth is the best way to sell them, in my opinion. I had neighbors for years asking me when I was getting more geese!I am wondering. There are different kinds of chicken that you could raise for meat (ex. red ranger/ red broilers, forgot what they’re called). But CX are very easy to get, as lots of TS and farm stores just openly sell them. Hoping they may have some. But we’d need a place for meat birds nonetheless. My CX: (10 weeks old) She’s almost as big of my biggest hen.
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But for turkeys, I’d want a heritage breed like Bourbon Reds or Blue Slate. I’d probably get one of those 2 if I could. Sell some babies, and raise some for meat, eat some, and sell some. It may not be profit, but hopefully we could get some for free. Then work our ways up. But we are in a ‘farm area’ sorta. NW Florida (South Alabama) has an area with lots of land. But 20 mins away, a road with all the stores, restaurants, and everything in that city, is all on that road. Head in a different direction, another ‘city’ city. I think we could do good finding at least a few people who’d want chicken and maybe, in the future, turkeys.