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The first time I got chickens
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:24 pm
by FarmerJones
Moved out of the city and decided to start a homestead and figured I’d get some chickens for a food source.....ordered 100 broilers since you got a discount on that many and the chicken adventure began. I have since then changed my whole outlook and now raise OEGB and seremas and only have full sized buff Orpington and barred rock for meat and eggs. I don’t think I’ll ever order broilers (white rock) again I love my chickens behaving like chickens and they have been essential in my farming model.
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:00 pm
by ross
Nice pics
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:42 pm
by FarmerJones
Thanks 3 years later and I still have about 100 chickens
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:38 pm
by kenya
They are so cute at that age though.
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:12 pm
by FarmerJones
Baby chicks no matter the breed are always cute!
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:18 am
by Pollo Caballo
100 broilers....Wow you sure jumped into the chicken farming with both feet!! Good for you that you found your chicken niche and are still in it!
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:21 am
by baronrenfrew
well good day eh!
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:08 pm
by TomK
A hundred right off the bat....WOW!!!!...i have been "in" chickens for 6 years now and just this past summer ventured into white rock broilers and even then only 35.…will do 50 in spring but never more..i built a tractor to house them in the night or when I am away all day but otherwise fed them morning and late afternoon and let them free range..they acted like chickens...and were clean and no more smelly than my other birds...and they dressed iut beautifully...if i didn't have the ability or space to free range them i would not do it. Indoor cooped broilers are hard to keep clean and I think its inhumane IMHO...chickens need something to do.
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:26 pm
by KimChick
We've done 40 meat chickens and that was too many for us. Now we'll do 20 at most. However, we don't let them mingle with our laying hens. The meat chickens stay in the barn and all the other birds are outside. We get them in May.
And when I hatch eggs in the incubator, the cockerels end up in the freezer, too.
Those and about 8 turkeys are quite enough poultry for the two of us.
Re: The first time I got chickens
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:27 pm
by WLLady
Lol i did 24 meat chickens once and it was too many!!! But they were not the new slower growing breed. They were nasty messy half naked and ate and
and drank and ate and if the water and food was not close they would rather starve than walk 3 steps. Never again. Lol they were the most adorable lemon yellow chicks tho
We now just process left over cockerels from our layers and like that meat just fine. Since we hatch our own it all works out
