Awesome work there friend! I love what you are doing! Are they cornish cross? When do you process them? We are thinking of getting some, or freedom rangers?
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Awesome work there friend! I love what you are doing! Are they cornish cross? When do you process them? We are thinking of getting some, or freedom rangers?
They are broilers. We will process them in about 6 weeks time. They live in the house for 2 weeks just because they can't handle the cold yet, and then they move out to a pretty large coop/run. They usually like to peck and play around for the first while outside but by the last 2 weeks they are really lethargic and I have to get them out of the coop a couple times a day by shooing them, just so that they keep getting a bit of exercise and fresh air otherwise they'd just lay by the food all day long. They are also really prone to heat exhaustion, which I didn't know before we got them the first time. The dead of summer was a bad time to get them that's for sure! I had to be misting them with water many many times a day just to keep them cool and we had a big fan going, but really what they would have needed was some A/C.
Best luck with getting some birds, your family will thank you that's for sure!