Here's a pic I took this morning of the meat birds....they are almost 3 weeks old.
They are actually kinda ugly at this point...but you can see how many feathers are coming in!
In a couple of days, they will be feathered out enough that I will bring them down to the meat bird room at the barn. They'll stay there for the rest of their time here.....
In the next 5 weeks, they will grow and grow and grow and grow.....the average weight when finished should be about 7 pounds, dressed!
Hard to believe now by looking at them isn't it?
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Annie, do you keep adding wood chips after moving your birds to the shed, or do you muck out and replace wood chip bedding?
We're doing another batch of birds--inside with a run as opposed to pastured chicken tractors.
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