Anyone around here grow broilers? Thinking of raising my (municipally allotted) 8 next year, and wondering how people acquire them, fertilized eggs, chicks?
8 ?
As in eight ?
Why bother ?
If you are going to raise meat birds, do it is early spring, they cannot 'do' heat, and do a order of 25 or more from a hatchery, like McMurray.
And they eat and eat and eat, 100X more than layers.
We butchered the last of ours 2 weeks ago & decidedly will not do anymore, as feed is so expensive, it is purposeless to do so.
And ducks, on grass, build more meat faster with far far far less feed.
Far less.
Turkeys, grow even faster, with more meat, and will eat more grass as well.
Cornish meat birds will eat little except parking their nasty butts in front of a feeder & waiting for high protein feed, aka: Flockraiser or Turkey/game bird starter...
****** You can aquire a few meat birds at feed stores in the spring.*****
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