Meat chickens

[Meatstick]

I went the drill plucker route. It wasn’t great. Matter of fact it was bad. Tore the skin, left the feathers. What feathers it did strip made a hell of a mess. In small doses best just to pluck by hand. Now that whizbang plucker is no joke. May look into that build. Cool videos on the YouTube.

Man I just youtubed that whiz bang plucker. I never cared nothin about raising chickens but now I want to just so I have a reason to build and use that plucker. That's the most efficient machine I've ever laid eyes on.
Wonder if I can build a small one for doves??

 

[muddhunter]

Man I just youtubed that whiz bang plucker. I never cared nothin about raising chickens but now I want to just so I have a reason to build and use that plucker. That's the most efficient machine I've ever laid eyes on.
Wonder if I can build a small one for doves??

I don’t see why not?

 

[Mainbeam]

I think we gonna do 25 just so we can get the hang of it. I kind of liked the idea of staggering them so there not all ready at one time

 

[PhilpotHunter]

Remember though, expect ALOT of them to die along the way.

 

[barney]

Back when I raised some meat birds, I raised them on wire floors, and kept them pretty crowded. I only took them to fryers at 3 lbs or a little bigger. It didn't take long to get them to that weight.

 

[Dark Cloud]

I killed four 400 lb hogs and butchered and ground them in one day. It was a wild ass day but we got it done. Maybe a hundred chickens is too much I’m not sure Iv never done this. I think I can ring 50 necks in a day and I got a processor that is awesome for the other ones. And I’ll will add there was ten knives working on hog killing day. Iv still got 200+ rolls of good sausage right now

I’ve seen my mom and dad kill thirty or fourty in a day ,kill,pick, clean and put in the freezer. This was regular fryer size chickens, dad would buy fifty to a hundred every spring .

 

[Munson]

Man I just youtubed that whiz bang plucker. I never cared nothin about raising chickens but now I want to just so I have a reason to build and use that plucker. That's the most efficient machine I've ever laid eyes on.
Wonder if I can build a small one for doves??

I checked it out too. Quite impressive. The video I watched the guy seemed to think you better be pretty advanced in afro engineering to pull it off.

 

[muddhunter]

Remember though, expect ALOT of them to die along the way.

What happened to yours? I’ve never had any meat chickens die. I’ve had a hard time with my layers getting killed by predators but the meat chickens finished so fast that we’ve had 100% survival till butcher day. Actually may have lost one as a chick but nothing stands out beside that

 

[Winchester94]

I have never had any problem raising them either.

 

[PhilpotHunter]

Cornish cross meat chickens would just randomly die at all stages on us. Chicks and adults. Tons of heart problems as adults.

 

[muddhunter]

Cornish cross meat chickens would just randomly die at all stages on us. Chicks and adults. Tons of heart problems as adults.

I guess we didn’t let them get old enough to have heart issues.

 

[KYBOY]

you can buy 25 or so for around the same price at a local feed store.. If you want a 100 Welp or Meyer hatchery have some of the best prices and free shipping..
I take mine to about 7 weeks so I have about a 5 3/4-6 pound processed weight..
Don't bother vacuum sealing(hard to vacuum sealing a odd shaped chciken), buy some shrink bags off amazon.. They come out perfect and are about .50 cents each. Work on rabbits too