Broiler chicken advice
Dennis wrote to give us a
rundown on his most recent broiler chicken operation. I'm
reproducing his entire email below because I think it's worth reading,
but I've inserted a cut for those with limited patience.
Raising
chickens for meat is emotionally different from raising them for
egg production. The chicks are just as cute when delivered but,
at
least in my case, I don't identify the birds individually or make any
attempt to observe their habits or individual characteristics.
Chicken
TV is great to watch with your layers and breeding stock but the birds
that we raise for meat are kept in a chicken tractor with little
opportunity to get out and perform. It is just as well, though,
because they are short lived with our normal processing day following
about 8 weeks after delivery. Read more....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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