Good morning. When i first started out raising pigs and chickens and such, i purchased totes full of feed to save money. when i got the tote home, i would use some 5 gallon buckets and scoop the feed from the tote into a couple of old large old deep freezers to store the feed into. it would take me about 40 minutes to transfer feed from the tote in the back of the truck into the freezer. Old, broken down freezers usually are fairly easy to find. I hope this suggestion helps you. I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. Thank you
Exactly!, you go down the rabbit hole in videos, but until you are hands , that’s when you get the experience. We raised 10 meat chickens to get some experience but not be overwhelmed. Some channels say “how to dispatch chicken” but don’t go in-depth on the ins to outs. Watching your channel when “the fit farmer” was there helped.
Hey brother, if it makes you feel better. Here in HI it’s $31 for 40lb. I’m raising Cornish cross bird’s for the first time they’re about five weeks old. Some are way bigger than others. But thy sure can eat!
Just found your channel. Just want you and your family too know what a inspiration you guys are. God bless you and your family. Praying for health healing and prosperity for you and your family! God bless
Grain directly from the farmers is so much cheaper in Lithuania. It's around 15 cents per kilo in here. Also free food scraps, compost etc adds to the feed economy. 👍😎
I’m so glad that we grow our own wheat that we can mix with 36% protein to feed our meat hens after the first few weeks on chick starter. It isn’t non-gmo but the birds also have opportunity to eat grass and bugs. We can raise for. $1.30/pound not including labour, heat lamp, water etc. We also have a batch ready to harvest in October which may be pushing it for our area here in Alberta, Canada. ❤️ U guys.
I have been watching other videos and they were doing all kinds of tests. They even done the same thing but the only thing that they changed the chicken feed with pig feed and they found out that the pig feed was cheaper and got the same results and some of the increased in weight and grew much faster.
Meat birds at my local farmers market are selling for $25-$35 each. They weigh about 5 or 6 pounds. If you can raise them for $10@ then it seems like a good price. Especially when you know they are healthy, fed well and humanely raised.
the egg chicken will use ground up egg shells, dried out, this will help have strong egg shell or use oyster shell , this helps like the grit or sand for gizzards.
I love pragmatic videos! Thanks! We've been raising meat chickens for a while, we have 24 to butcher in 3 weeks and 30 more in 6 weeks. We average 6 ounces of grower feed per bird, per day. They eat about 4 ounces a day for the first 3 weeks and about 7 ounces their last few weeks. Not too different than you. Keep up the good work!
We are heading out to North Carolina October 1st, finally sold our house and are going to start a homestead! You guys have been a huge inspiration for us to take the jump. We would love to stop by to check out your Homestead on our search for property. If you could use some help, we would love to volunteer some of our time!
I see leftovers in the trough. I just finished a batch of freedom rangers and they never had any leftovers. I was amazed at how hungry they were. Great videos. Thanks for being so inspiring. ✌🏻❤️
Hey Jason! I have been watching you for about a year and I got to say THANK YOU!!! My husband and I love your content. We were very invested on planing our homestead and finally all has materialized. New property, bigger land and our Cornish crosses are almost 4 weeks, they look very healthy and super big! Our egg layers are still small 😄 I really appreciate you for sharing your experience and knowledge on raising meat birds. I love the fact that you really share detailed information on how to do it so people like me can really learn. Thank you again for helping me raising my birds. Lots of respect and appreciation to you and your family.💖👍
We raised our first meat birds this summer and I think we fed each batch differently. We just have to do the best we can and listen to what they are telling us. Keep up the good work!
Your video is very inspiration! My sister always talk me into put some chickens on our land, but I thought it will cost us to much where we live, your video make me rethink about it now. I grow my own veggies but not meat. From New Zealand
Good morning Jason. I am just wondering do you use Organic feed or Non-organic regular feed from a mill ? Thank you for your time making these videos they really help out. My wife and I are Veteran's and just purchased our house with 20 acres in North Carolina. We have learned so much watching videos form you and Justin Rhodes.
Do you get much wind? We use Salatin style tractors bc they're low to the ground and we have high winds. Wondering how your tractor design does under wind pressure.
Hi Jason. I am becoming a huge fan especially after you shared your health issues and showed what real men do. They work through problems and take care of their families regardless of any cost to them selves. For that, you get the Homestead Purple Heart. I have a sincere question and a problem. My wife and I are not new to country life but are new to raising chickens. Pigs and cows we got that. But we are at our wits end here. We bought about 30 chickens. Some layers and most meat chickens. Our meat chickens are Freedom Rangers, Cornish Cross, and Jersey Giants. We have a cannibalism problem. In fact they are a Freedom Ranger last night, and then almost ate a CC. I will have to put it down. What is causing this? They are in a 100 sqft coop. All are exactly the same age, 4 weeks. But he cannibals are running wild here. The hatchery said mixing all these birds was okay but it appears either they are full of crap or I am doing something wrong. Any advice or assistance is appreciated in advance. Thanks for all the good content.
I have 46 cornish they'll be 2 days shy of 9 weeks the 19th. I built Gutter troughs. A 5ft and a 4ft. I feed them in the morning. 12 hours later just about gone. 2 days left to feed. 19th is the day. 17 bags 850lbs didn't buy bulk 17 bucks a bag. $289 inside no room for tractor yet but if I do this again in the spring. I'm building 1 for sure.
Adult chickens and layers eat about 1/4 to 1/3 of a pound of feed a day. This is, however, dependent on breed, life stage, and how much other stuff they eat, such as greens and bugs. Broilers eat more. They will eat pounds of food a day unless you limit it. However, I ferment the commercial feed, so that it gets more palatable, the birds eat less but quickly get full and there is less waste when they eat fermented feed. I also prefer buying pellets and crumbled feed as compared to chicken mash because when fermented, pellets and crumbs multiply more than mash which is not machine compressed.
Love your videos . . . man oh man I think you're going through enough feed to raise beef cattle lol. . . all the chickens we raised on the farm, had to make do with kitchen scraps. Cheers.
This has nothing to do with chickens but have you guys gone to get roasted chili yet? We just did this past weekend and used some tonight, it's amazing ! You guys are awesome as usual!
Thank you for the breakdown on this. I've been mulling it over and over trying to figure out if it would be worth it for us to do this. We are in Michigan. I've been been buying my meat local and that seems like it would still be the best, most affordable option for us.
Running my first batch of cornish cross. 30 birds ate 5lbs week 0, about 12lbs week 1, and about 45lbs week 2. I did dry feed only for week 0 and week 1, then introduced fermented feed to them halfway through week 2, along with their first food scraps. Slowed down consumption rate while proving more nutrients then the base feed so not "thinning" out the values. Trying to fully document the amounts of feed, in which form, etc. so I can put together a weekly by the numbers chart in the end. Hoping to raise my meat chickens for around $1-$1.50/lbs. Hoping fermented feed and food scraps help acheive this, but do not see it fed by anyone for meat birds despite it being commong for egg layers. I feed both my flocks some dry and some fermented feed. Better nutrional value for them, less cost for me.
Remember if time gets tuff and you can't afford feed butcher They could be spring chickens,cornish game hens, fryers ,broilers or what ever their size. No need to feedless butcher a few or many.Chickens will cook at all sizes.
Hi there! We are very new to this and have raised a little under 300 Cornish-Cross birds. I have recently taken on the role of feeding them and this was my exact question. I wasn’t sure if I was under/ over feeding. We are currently processing with the goal of an average of 5lbs and we had 45 birds this round, we ended up processing at 9 weeks. I was doing similar feeding as you were in this video. I looked through your videos/playlists to see if you had any more videos on the feeding of Cornish-Cross as an update but didn’t see anything. Can you point me in the direction if you do? Just feels like we went through quite a bit of feed this round but we did extend an extra week to assure we hit our average. Thank you!
I feel like I am over feeding my first batch of cornish x. They seem to be doing great but man they can put away some food. So I am just gonna keep feeding the little guys and see how it goes.
About the type of feed im using starter crumbles since i cant find any other feed. What type of feed should I ask for??Local supply only has grower crumbles.
1st time growing meat birds - cornish cross. Our 1st group avg 5.3 lbs, 2nd batch was 7.0 lbs. Biggest one was 8.5! I created spreadsheet for cost, but Mr Chicken Tender didn't use it.
You need better feed conversion. My last 25 we did with under 5 bags of feed from start to finish. Your food is costing you a fortune. Check your feed, I'd love to see the feed bag tag. Organic is fine but you gotta have conversion in what you're feeding or it quits being economical.
Where do u buy ur 50 lbs bag of feed from?. I trued the Amazon link in your description but couldn't find it. Plz provide link to buy this feed. Thank you
I recently bought some rhode island reds from a tractor supply store but they have blonde colored feathers in the back. Do you know what kind of chickens they might be?
sounds like what they call a red star, its a cross bred chicken, RIR crossed with a RIW or white plymouth rock, when hatched the pullets will be orange and the roosters will be white, thats called a sex link, great layers
I’m raising 150 CC now and I have never raised any chicken and I’ve raised 1000s but these birds r not growing there feathers like that should there a month old yesterday I feed the 22% Boiler feed twice three times a day the birds are going away but I just ain’t right on the feathers can you explain that one
Hey man I love your videos. I was wondering if you still do the school bus conversions I'm interested to have mine converted Let me know if you do or have someone else to help out with it Thanks a lot
Hey Jason, So i'm in a different country and was wondering what kind of feed you use for your Broiler chickens. is it Combi feed (small pellets) or do you buy something that's very loose and thin ? Thanks
We just bought our first set of meat birds and I’m curious about using fermented feed for them, if it would be cost affective. When the weather gets cooler I feed my laying chickens fermented feed and they love it but it is a bit more work.
You don't think your neighbor with the tractor would come over on tote delivery day, in exchange for a chicken or two?? He seemed like a pretty nice dude...
I ordered a large one in April. They kept changing my delivery dates. My next delivery was end of September. The cost of the freezer showed up as a credit in my checking account last week. No email, no call. Something tells me they are NOT giving me one for free. Glad I was desperate enough in late July to pick up a small one when I found it. Otherwise all I would have is the freezers in my 2 fridges.
I don't like feeding the recommended 8hr on 8hr off.... I like the way your doing it but we only feed ours a healthy helping once a day 😉 we do let them grow out longer but it's so worth it
I wonder if there is a difference in taste and tenderness with increasing feed? Interested to know. Thanks for sharing. I’d love to raise some meat birds but don’t have anyone to help with processing....with or without the ‘heart’ to do it. I have a super small circle lol But maybe next year, I can dream 😊
I'm looking forward to moving down to NC in a year or two and starting my own little homestead. For just starting out and moving to a new area, how does one find these great co-ops to buy feed from?
Why did you stop soaking the feed when it was reported to decrease food consumption and increase bioavailability? Not judging, just curious! StL is my favorite channel... 😁
Back when my dad still had dairy cows, he would get burlap bags of feed which could be refilled at the mill. But then he bought a feed mill for the farm...shoveled corn into it. Pricey up front but his neighbors used it too. They would either bring a load of grain in their truck bed to grind. Or if they were close, dad drove to their farms.
Our cornish cross are getting almost what u give them in a day, I give them twice that amount. And they still act like ravaged starving animals lol. It's ridiculous how much feed cost. There has got to be a better/cheaper way....what about fermenting feed for them?
I grew up with all kinds of chickens and the broilers were the ones that consumed and needed the highest amount of food. I think they're the equivalent of human sumo wrestlers.😂 Loved them all nontheless.
I don't understand how nay sayers think your under feeding if you raise a 4-5lb bird most whole caged bird chickens in my shops in UK are only 3~1/2 lbs average ..at least you're are free range😊
Good morning. When i first started out raising pigs and chickens and such, i purchased totes full of feed to save money.
when i got the tote home, i would use some 5 gallon buckets and scoop the feed from the tote into a couple of old large old deep freezers to store the feed into. it would take me about 40 minutes to transfer feed from the tote in the back of the truck into the freezer.
Old, broken down freezers usually are fairly easy to find. I hope this suggestion helps you.
I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. Thank you
Thanks for the info Jason.
We’re about to pick up our first batch of meat birds.
Enjoy your practical homesteading solutions a great benefit. 🍻
Get a small trailer with sides and buy totes of feed and just leave the tote on trailer and park it where you can get it in and out with your truck
Great idea
Exactly!, you go down the rabbit hole in videos, but until you are hands , that’s when you get the experience. We raised 10 meat chickens to get some experience but not be overwhelmed. Some channels say “how to dispatch chicken” but don’t go in-depth on the ins to outs. Watching your channel when “the fit farmer” was there helped.
I'm getting chickens yayyy so excited, I'm definitely naming one Bernice 👍
Love that!
You’ll have at least 1 named Karen too lol, we have several🙂👍
Hey brother, if it makes you feel better. Here in HI it’s $31 for 40lb. I’m raising Cornish cross bird’s for the first time they’re about five weeks old. Some are way bigger than others. But thy sure can eat!
I’m 13 and I did 24 meat chickens I fed them 4 cups of feed once a day I kept them for around 12 weeks and used 6 100 pound bags of feed
awesome!
nice presentation, Jason..whatever works for you..that way a new chicken farmer has the option to learn what he can afford.
Beep boop beep boop! Awesome video, so happy to see you thriving with your homestead!
I really appreciate your blog, what a wonderful family,
Just found your channel. Just want you and your family too know what a inspiration you guys are. God bless you and your family. Praying for health healing and prosperity for you and your family! God bless
Grain directly from the farmers is so much cheaper in Lithuania. It's around 15 cents per kilo in here. Also free food scraps, compost etc adds to the feed economy. 👍😎
Gal jūs auginate broilerius Lietuvoje? Noriu sužinoti, kurį pašarą naudoti būtū geriausias, ar tik grūdus? Aciu
Ant kombikormo auga geriau, sveikesni ir putlesni, grudai yra pasenus technologija...
I’m so glad that we grow our own wheat that we can mix with 36% protein to feed our meat hens after the first few weeks on chick starter. It isn’t non-gmo but the birds also have opportunity to eat grass and bugs. We can raise for. $1.30/pound not including labour, heat lamp, water etc. We also have a batch ready to harvest in October which may be pushing it for our area here in Alberta, Canada. ❤️ U guys.
I have been watching other videos and they were doing all kinds of tests. They even done the same thing but the only thing that they changed the chicken feed with pig feed and they found out that the pig feed was cheaper and got the same results and some of the increased in weight and grew much faster.
Those Cornish Cross chickens grow so fast. 8 weeks is fast. They are some hungry birds too, all the time they eat. Nice video.
The best thing about raising the birds yourself is that you know exactly what they eat 🐥🐔🐥.
Feeding them broiler feed is exact same as buying chicken from shop for 4 dollar's...
I love these types of videos, they are so helpful. Thanks!
Are you using the mavic mini? (Tell Bernice I said hello plz)
They look good...
Have a good evening 🌻🌻🌻
Meat birds at my local farmers market are selling for $25-$35 each. They weigh about 5 or 6 pounds. If you can raise them for $10@ then it seems like a good price. Especially when you know they are healthy, fed well and humanely raised.
the egg chicken will use ground up egg shells, dried out, this will help have strong egg shell or use oyster shell , this helps like the grit or sand for gizzards.
I harvest some of our meat birds last year at 12 pounds after cleaned. Big boys.
I love pragmatic videos! Thanks! We've been raising meat chickens for a while, we have 24 to butcher in 3 weeks and 30 more in 6 weeks. We average 6 ounces of grower feed per bird, per day. They eat about 4 ounces a day for the first 3 weeks and about 7 ounces their last few weeks. Not too different than you. Keep up the good work!
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We are heading out to North Carolina October 1st, finally sold our house and are going to start a homestead! You guys have been a huge inspiration for us to take the jump. We would love to stop by to check out your Homestead on our search for property. If you could use some help, we would love to volunteer some of our time!
It is always interesting and thought provoking when you produce these vlogs. Always a conversation and research starter re local situation. Thank you
I see leftovers in the trough. I just finished a batch of freedom rangers and they never had any leftovers. I was amazed at how hungry they were. Great videos. Thanks for being so inspiring. ✌🏻❤️
Loving your chicken content! Excited to be able to raise my own meat birds one of these days.
Hey Jason! I have been watching you for about a year and I got to say THANK YOU!!! My husband and I love your content. We were very invested on planing our homestead and finally all has materialized. New property, bigger land and our Cornish crosses are almost 4 weeks, they look very healthy and super big! Our egg layers are still small 😄 I really appreciate you for sharing your experience and knowledge on raising meat birds. I love the fact that you really share detailed information on how to do it so people like me can really learn. Thank you again for helping me raising my birds. Lots of respect and appreciation to you and your family.💖👍
We raised our first meat birds this summer and I think we fed each batch differently. We just have to do the best we can and listen to what they are telling us. Keep up the good work!
Your video is very inspiration! My sister always talk me into put some chickens on our land, but I thought it will cost us to much where we live, your video make me rethink about it now. I grow my own veggies but not meat. From New Zealand
Good morning Jason. I am just wondering do you use Organic feed or Non-organic regular feed from a mill ? Thank you for your time making these videos they really help out. My wife and I are Veteran's and just purchased our house with 20 acres in North Carolina. We have learned so much watching videos form you and Justin Rhodes.
Do you get much wind? We use Salatin style tractors bc they're low to the ground and we have high winds. Wondering how your tractor design does under wind pressure.
Good looking birds!
Hi Jason. I am becoming a huge fan especially after you shared your health issues and showed what real men do. They work through problems and take care of their families regardless of any cost to them selves. For that, you get the Homestead Purple Heart.
I have a sincere question and a problem. My wife and I are not new to country life but are new to raising chickens. Pigs and cows we got that. But we are at our wits end here.
We bought about 30 chickens. Some layers and most meat chickens. Our meat chickens are Freedom Rangers, Cornish Cross, and Jersey Giants. We have a cannibalism problem. In fact they are a Freedom Ranger last night, and then almost ate a CC. I will have to put it down.
What is causing this? They are in a 100 sqft coop. All are exactly the same age, 4 weeks. But he cannibals are running wild here.
The hatchery said mixing all these birds was okay but it appears either they are full of crap or I am doing something wrong.
Any advice or assistance is appreciated in advance.
Thanks for all the good content.
I have 46 cornish they'll be 2 days shy of 9 weeks the 19th. I built Gutter troughs. A 5ft and a 4ft. I feed them in the morning. 12 hours later just about gone. 2 days left to feed. 19th is the day. 17 bags 850lbs didn't buy bulk 17 bucks a bag. $289 inside no room for tractor yet but if I do this again in the spring. I'm building 1 for sure.
Adult chickens and layers eat about 1/4 to 1/3 of a pound of feed a day. This is, however, dependent on breed, life stage, and how much other stuff they eat, such as greens and bugs. Broilers eat more. They will eat pounds of food a day unless you limit it. However, I ferment the commercial feed, so that it gets more palatable, the birds eat less but quickly get full and there is less waste when they eat fermented feed. I also prefer buying pellets and crumbled feed as compared to chicken mash because when fermented, pellets and crumbs multiply more than mash which is not machine compressed.
The important thing is what your feed to meat conversion is.
Watching my email for your next hands on class! About 2.5 hours east of you and need some encouragement and experience to give me confidence.
Drats, was too late. All sold out. 😣
I just subscribed to your channel in part due to your competance but also your ability to make beeping noises
Jason I kept mine for 13 weeks I had alot of 6.5 lb birds Cornish cross
Love your videos . . . man oh man I think you're going through enough feed to raise beef cattle lol. . . all the chickens we raised on the farm, had to make do with kitchen scraps. Cheers.
*THANK YOU VÍDEO FRIEND AND FAMILY CALIFÓRNIA*
This has nothing to do with chickens but have you guys gone to get roasted chili yet? We just did this past weekend and used some tonight, it's amazing !
You guys are awesome as usual!
This is awesome. So helpful for a baseline estimate!
Another reason to buy a tractor Jason. I say end of next year you’ll have one, any takers?
Thank you for the breakdown on this. I've been mulling it over and over trying to figure out if it would be worth it for us to do this. We are in Michigan. I've been been buying my meat local and that seems like it would still be the best, most affordable option for us.
Running my first batch of cornish cross. 30 birds ate 5lbs week 0, about 12lbs week 1, and about 45lbs week 2. I did dry feed only for week 0 and week 1, then introduced fermented feed to them halfway through week 2, along with their first food scraps. Slowed down consumption rate while proving more nutrients then the base feed so not "thinning" out the values. Trying to fully document the amounts of feed, in which form, etc. so I can put together a weekly by the numbers chart in the end. Hoping to raise my meat chickens for around $1-$1.50/lbs. Hoping fermented feed and food scraps help acheive this, but do not see it fed by anyone for meat birds despite it being commong for egg layers. I feed both my flocks some dry and some fermented feed. Better nutrional value for them, less cost for me.
Remember if time gets tuff and you can't afford feed butcher They could be spring chickens,cornish game hens, fryers ,broilers or what ever their size. No need to feedless butcher a few or many.Chickens will cook at all sizes.
Did I heard it right that we can feed the chickens with sands snd stone pellets sometimes ?
Hi there! We are very new to this and have raised a little under 300 Cornish-Cross birds. I have recently taken on the role of feeding them and this was my exact question. I wasn’t sure if I was under/ over feeding. We are currently processing with the goal of an average of 5lbs and we had 45 birds this round, we ended up processing at 9 weeks. I was doing similar feeding as you were in this video. I looked through your videos/playlists to see if you had any more videos on the feeding of Cornish-Cross as an update but didn’t see anything. Can you point me in the direction if you do? Just feels like we went through quite a bit of feed this round but we did extend an extra week to assure we hit our average. Thank you!
I feel like I am over feeding my first batch of cornish x. They seem to be doing great but man they can put away some food. So I am just gonna keep feeding the little guys and see how it goes.
About the type of feed im using starter crumbles since i cant find any other feed. What type of feed should I ask for??Local supply only has grower crumbles.
1st time growing meat birds - cornish cross. Our 1st group avg 5.3 lbs, 2nd batch was 7.0 lbs. Biggest one was 8.5! I created spreadsheet for cost, but Mr Chicken Tender didn't use it.
We used to have 7-9 lbs birds regularly. How did they change??
You need better feed conversion. My last 25 we did with under 5 bags of feed from start to finish. Your food is costing you a fortune. Check your feed, I'd love to see the feed bag tag. Organic is fine but you gotta have conversion in what you're feeding or it quits being economical.
Where do u buy ur 50 lbs bag of feed from?. I trued the Amazon link in your description but couldn't find it. Plz provide link to buy this feed.
Thank you
What about weting the feed day befor will that make it last little longer
I recently bought some rhode island reds from a tractor supply store but they have blonde colored feathers in the back. Do you know what kind of chickens they might be?
sounds like what they call a red star, its a cross bred chicken, RIR crossed with a RIW or white plymouth rock, when hatched the pullets will be orange and the roosters will be white, thats called a sex link, great layers
@@snakeriverfisher Thanks for the info.
Do you ever feed these meat chickens any kitchen scraps to offset the feed cost? Or is the diet strictly broiler feed?
Hi friend can you hatch boiler eggs in your incubator please tell me
I’m raising 150 CC now and I have never raised any chicken and I’ve raised 1000s but these birds r not growing there feathers like that should there a month old yesterday I feed the 22% Boiler feed twice three times a day the birds are going away but I just ain’t right on the feathers can you explain that one
My wife keeps 50 birds that she free ranges, and we also use 200lbs of grain per month
What type of feed do you feed your Cornish cross?
Hey man
I love your videos. I was wondering if you still do the school bus conversions
I'm interested to have mine converted
Let me know if you do or have someone else to help out with it
Thanks a lot
How much do you feed your layers? I have six, very soon to be layers, and worry that I'm not feeding enough.
I haven't figured that out myself. I feed them a bunch. :)
Hey Jason,
So i'm in a different country and was wondering what kind of feed you use for your Broiler chickens. is it Combi feed (small pellets) or do you buy something that's very loose and thin ?
Thanks
Boiler chicken soup EXCELLENT for throat coughing chest cough, fly cold.
We just bought our first set of meat birds and I’m curious about using fermented feed for them, if it would be cost affective. When the weather gets cooler I feed my laying chickens fermented feed and they love it but it is a bit more work.
You don't think your neighbor with the tractor would come over on tote delivery day, in exchange for a chicken or two?? He seemed like a pretty nice dude...
How many deep freezers are you up to now? I regret not getting the bigger model.
I ordered a large one in April. They kept changing my delivery dates. My next delivery was end of September. The cost of the freezer showed up as a credit in my checking account last week. No email, no call. Something tells me they are NOT giving me one for free. Glad I was desperate enough in late July to pick up a small one when I found it. Otherwise all I would have is the freezers in my 2 fridges.
I don't like feeding the recommended 8hr on 8hr off.... I like the way your doing it but we only feed ours a healthy helping once a day 😉 we do let them grow out longer but it's so worth it
I wonder if there is a difference in taste and tenderness with increasing feed? Interested to know. Thanks for sharing. I’d love to raise some meat birds but don’t have anyone to help with processing....with or without the ‘heart’ to do it. I have a super small circle lol But maybe next year, I can dream 😊
What was the feed In the bag
I so wish I could have grown chickens when all three of my large sons were home!
What is the protein percentage you use since its the same all the way through start to finish ?
Where do you buy your broiler feed for broilers? I'm wanting to buy organic
I'm looking forward to moving down to NC in a year or two and starting my own little homestead. For just starting out and moving to a new area, how does one find these great co-ops to buy feed from?
all word of mouth. Talking to neighbors. or start your own.
Really good video 👍👍
Awesome video and God bless
Why did you stop soaking the feed when it was reported to decrease food consumption and increase bioavailability? Not judging, just curious! StL is my favorite channel... 😁
it was a mess and an extra step I didn't feel like doing. I tried.
No link to red broiler video in description as advertized ?
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Could you get scraps from caffe or food outlets to lower your cost?
In a normal year, maybe.
I could but I don't think it is very practical for us.
Is there a reason for giving sand to the stream?
I agree
Do they get scraps too?
With all the feed you give. Will you still have a profit ?
Why did you decide to double their feed this year?
ask the feed place if you save the feed bags would get a discount for reusing them.
if it was a tote then yes. but not for the bags.
Back when my dad still had dairy cows, he would get burlap bags of feed which could be refilled at the mill. But then he bought a feed mill for the farm...shoveled corn into it. Pricey up front but his neighbors used it too. They would either bring a load of grain in their truck bed to grind. Or if they were close, dad drove to their farms.
How much does a bag of feed cost?
Our cornish cross are getting almost what u give them in a day, I give them twice that amount. And they still act like ravaged starving animals lol. It's ridiculous how much feed cost.
There has got to be a better/cheaper way....what about fermenting feed for them?
Expensive? Not really, they're worth it. You know they're treated right.
Where and what brand of feed?
Ty sir
Hi what kind of feed do you use?
Good morning beast sow the land jason RUclips video mississauga Ontario 🇨🇦🇨🇦
I grew up with all kinds of chickens and the broilers were the ones that consumed and needed the highest amount of food. I think they're the equivalent of human sumo wrestlers.😂 Loved them all nontheless.
We butchered half of ours and then i had foot surgery the other half is about 14 weeks and look like Turkeys
When are you going to be doing more pigs
You said $17 a bag for feed, is that organic feed?
no. it is no gmo.
and that is a rediculas price
That's what we pay as well from the feed stores in my area..
I want to buy one to raise
I don't understand how nay sayers think your under feeding if you raise a 4-5lb bird most whole caged bird chickens in my shops in UK are only 3~1/2 lbs average ..at least you're are free range😊