Pasture raised meat birds – Part 1

This is the first in a series of videos of tips & tricks on how to grow & process meat birds – specifically chickens – Cornish Cross, Red Ranger, Freedom Ranger broilers, fryers, roasters (though the same ideas also apply to turkeys) – on your homestead.

Over the past 15 years, my friend Dave has raised thousands of meat birds on his family's homestead in Upper Valley, New Hampshire. The method we cover here will work for most locations that can sustain pasture, with some adjustments based on your local climate.

In this first video, Dave and I discuss buying chicks, brooding chicks, feeding them, watering them, and growing the broilers on pasture in chicken tractors – and moving the birds every day… the chickens scratch and feed on bugs and grass, and are fed a 20% protein broiler feed.

If you have any questions at all, please comment below.

Intro
1:25 – Ordering chicks
2:13 – The three main things in raising meat birds
2:37 – Where to brood?
2:52 – What type of brooder?
3:21 – Heat & light
5:48 – Ohio box brooders
6:56 – Feeders & waterers
8:35 – Bedding
9:06 – Feed
9:46 – Feed prices & storage
11:07 – Sale prices (for processed chickens)
12:52 – Feeding meat birds - free feed vs. schedule
16:07 – Watering chickens
18:21 – Many thanks, and what's in next videos
18:39 – Example feed costs
18:52 – Feed schedule for 25 Red Rangers

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