Free Ranging Meat Bird Broiler Chickens Reduced Feed Cost & Improved Health

We raise our own broiler meat chickens and they are so much healthier than commercially raised chickens. We are talking about the Cornish Cross broiler chickens bred for meat.

The broiler chickens generally sit around all day and night eating. They do nothing but eat from egg to table. The commercial birds are butchered around 6 to 8 weeks of age.

By this time commercial broilers have broken legs and all kinds of health problems.

We semi free range our meat chickens and they are so much healthier. In the chicken coop they were eating about 6 quarts of food for 6 to 10 birds.

Out free ranging they only eat 1 to 2 quarts of food per day. They are scratching, foraging and playing out in the yard every day.

They say you should butcher the Cornish Cross meat birds when their legs break. This is because the birds eat so much and do not get any exercise that their legs cannot keep up and break under the weight and the stress.

Our birds on the other hand were fully healthy and strong when we processed them. But we also waited to 12 weeks which gave us larger birds.

Our chickens were still in perfect health with no broken bones at processing.

This is a perfect example of why semi free ranging your meat chickens is healthier for them and for you.

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I also wrote an article for those who are interested. There is a lot more information in the article.

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http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11463

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