For Everything, A Season
I haven't posted much of an update on our meat chickens because, quite frankly, things were so boring and routine and uneventful raising them, I wasn't sure what exactly I could fill you in on. Until now. To recap, we bought our Cornish cross chicks eight or nine weeks ago and raised them with the sole purpose of butchering them for food. When they were around four weeks old and temps were hovering around 60 degrees each night, Rob built a mobile chicken tractor and we put them out on pasture for the remainder of their little chicken lives. If you recall, Cornish cross is a breed developed exclusively as a meat bird. They typically don't live long enough to lay eggs and grow so quickly that if they aren't processed between 8-10 weeks of age, they'll often just keel over from a heart attack because they can't keep up with the demands of rapid growth this breed requires. When we brought the chicks home and looked at the calendar, we knew the 3rd weekend i...