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Flockincrazy
Crowing
Thanks so much I plan to start in May probably memorial weekendI don't raise broilers ether. Here are some tips to consider.
Broilers are usually raised separate from egg producing chickens in tractors. Reason for that is,, the heavy duty soiling broilers (aka eating machines) produce. Backyard raised, you can stretch the time somewhat beyond the 8 weeks. The meat producers feed their stock non-stop, to get shortest time results.
Many backyard peeps also choose Red Ranger breed as their broilers. I don't know very much about them, but know they develop somewhat slower, so longer keeping. One option would be to keep a quantity of each. Harvest the CX first, and then the Red rangers.
Many of those that raise broilers, choose to harvest their whole flock in same day. then pack, and freeze. It does get work intensive, but with help, and all supplies going, does go efficiently.
Keeping in mind the tractor method of raising these broilers, you do want appropriate weather temps to do this. You are in similar weather zone as I am. Too cold to start just yet.
These are the Silkies that I had, they were 3 or 4 months old, I don't know for sure, because they were given to me from a friend. The two on the right are roos. You can clearly see their comb at this age and the little girl on the left doesn't show much of a comb!
