04/21/11, 02:40 PM
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Too Complicated For Cable
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Washington
Posts: 10,120
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Originally Posted by Cyngbaeld
Your home grown meat is about twice as dense as store bought. So take that into consideration. You need less of it to be more satisfied than with store bought! (Not so much water in it and more nutrients.)
I've still got some that need processing. Just starting to crow. I fed them for the first 3-4 weeks and not much since. They get an occasional handful of corn or oats. Amazing how well they do free range.
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I'm with you on free range. A farmer friend of mine in VA has some 'wild' chickens around his house. He's never fed them feed, they all have to fend for themselves. Besides some scraps from the table they eat nothing but bugs and grass and whatever else. All very healthy.
I don't really feed mine in warmer months either. Left overs from meals, maybe some scratch or left over seed... They get big and fat, and taste perfect to me.
Come winter months I've already butchered my meat birds ( I don't raise any special breed of birds, just let the rooster do what he does and hatch what may) so I will feed my layers through winter. They don't need much though, it doesn't get that cold here so they are able to free range year round.
I suppose it wouldn't work for a commercial operation, but I get nearly free meat and cheap eggs this way.
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