I Should’ve Started This Last Week // Raising Meat Chickens {Week 1}

Our meat chickens are a week old and they have already grown quite a bit. This week we’ll put them on the scale so we can start tracking their growth over the remaining seven weeks.
We’re raising Cornish cross meat birds for the first time and want to share the whole experience with you. We’ll be releasing a new video each week all the way through butcher day detailing things that surprised us and what we’re looking forward the next week.

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Our first ever meat chickens came in the mail last week. We purchased 30 Cornish cross females from Meyer Hatchery. Cornish cross are incredibly fast growers – from hatch to butcher in only 8 weeks. We’ve done quite a bit of research on this and feel very well prepared but everyone knows there’s no replacement for experience. If you’ve thought about raising meat chickens but just haven’t made that commitment yet I hope you can look to our experiences as something you can learn from. If we can do it, so can you!

For the first week we kept our meat birds separate from our layer chicks using these reusable brooder panels. Now that some time has passed we’re taking down the panels and allowing our meat and layer chickens to run together. When they get older we wouldn’t want to do this but since both sets of chicks are on the same feed right now it is fine. We’re still running two heat lamps as well; in case a bulb in one lamp goes out the birds will be able to gather around the other lamp giving us just a little extra safety.

We’ll have a video on this new chick brooder coming as soon as I can put the video together. This is my happy place – I could sit in here and watch these baby birds for hours. We hope this series interests, inspires, and entertains you. Thanks for watching – see y’all soon!
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