Friday's Chicken Question

in homesteading •  7 years ago 

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Do you raise your chickens for meat, eggs, or both?

Last week's question was, "How often do you clean your coop?" The comments were inconclusive, but it appeared that cleaning chicken coops is done sporadically. Thanks for commenting.

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For eggs...I would love to do meat, but my farmer has issues with birds or a phobia you could say...😁

We keep chickens for the eggs and apparently to feed the fox.

Both. We raise 90 broilers and keep 18 hens. All go to Freezer Camp within 20 months.

Both, but eggs get priority.

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We raise for both. It started out equally here, about half and half meat and eggs. Lately the emphasis has been on eggs, with only some meat as a bonus. We are cutting back on the amount of chickens we have to let the land they range in recover somewhat. Therefore we have hens for eggs, and when they choose to hatch a batch, we eat the roosters and maybe an old hen or two. Trying to keep it down to about 20 hens, but I recently had a neighbor give me a half dozen, and a hen hatch a few, so I need to have a butchering day again. :)

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