Hunter's Choice Bowstrings

MEAT CHICKENS

This all began when a friend of mine started raising meat birds a few years back and when I asked him how much they were he said he sells them right at $5/pound for his birds. If you’re life me, you think that’s a pretty high price to pay for chicken. That puts each chicken costing $20-25. I wanted to experiment for myself.

Our meat chickens are officially 2 months old.. these have been the most challenging and costly animal I’ve raised yet.. I have spent more on these birds in 2 months than I did on feeding the hogs for 10 months… it is recommended to feed these chickens 1/4-1/2 pound per day, per chicken. That’s right at 12 pounds of food a day for the 25 we have. They are equally as nasty as the pigs were.. lol.

If my math is correct, with these 8 week old chickens I have right at $15 per bird in them and have a week left to feed them. I’m renting a chicken plucker to process them all next weekend and estimate my total cost will be around $17.50 per bird. That is with me processing them.

It has been work. Every morning and evening for the last 8 weeks we’ve fed and watered them. They drink almost 5 gallons of water a day and they’ll eat as much food as you put in there. I have been moving their chicken tractor every 2/3 days to keep the ground clean.

My conclusion, if you want quality poultry, but it. Haha. Don’t waste your time “saving money” haha. I didn’t save a dime although I have enjoyed the journey. It is nice knowing where your food comes from.

Just this year we managed to put up 4 deer, over 500 pounds of pork and, Lord willing, next weekend we will put up 25 meat chickens.

It is beautiful to labor for your food. The Lord has taught me a lot through all the work.

“Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬, ‭12‬-‭14‬ ‭ESV‬

Hebrews 3:10-14 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” Take care, broth | English Standard Versi Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’” Take care, broth

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