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The one of them warming their butts

Thank you! Do you have any exterior photos? And also, that picture is so awesome 🤣

I can look into the other types of breeds though.

We will not be free ranging them. We have way too many hawks and we live in the woods. The enclosure was more for their comfort.

Birdinhand, thanks for this. I’ll check that resource out. Having a safe coop is really important, I totally agree. I would love to have one at waist level so as not to have to bend down. Not sure how to go about making one though. The enclosure for “free ranging” (I don’t know what else to call...

One more question for now. I’m on the fence about him processing them and would rather pay a farm. He wants to do them for cost saving but I’m worried he won’t know a diseased bird. Is there a resource for assessing the meat for things that would make it not fit to eat? A local farm is having a...

Also, I had no idea they needed so much looking after, I’m glad to know these things ahead of time to see if we’re really prepared for this. Our hens are very low maintenance (partly bc we have a small flock and I have an auto coop door/heated waterer). We both work full time so I’ll really need...

Thanks for this reply! Yes, I would like to somehow store their feed nearby as it’s a little distance from the house over a small stream and up a hill. Our hens are closer to the house and in their run I have a large food storage bin. I wouldn’t intend to keep the feeders full just hoped to...

Ok, thanks for this information. We have a massive chipmunk population (oddly not many squirrels) and as a result our hens’ run is fully enclosed in hardware cloth (with sand in the run, the coop is also inside the run). Do you think we should put hardware cloth on the floor of the meat birds’...

Hello all! This is my first post. We are in the beginning stages of researching raising meat birds. We have had layers for a couple years. Due to our property we really are unable to have them in a tractor (wooded and lots of hills). I saw another post that indicated having the coop/run raised...