Assess Livestock Area and Pre-Processing Considerations

chickens so folks these are our Cornish cross meat birds these are the hybrid Cornish cross meat birds they're going to dress out somewhere in the neighborhood of eight pounds apiece they've been out here on pasture they're a little bit hungry right now and for today what we're going to feed them is just straight cracked corn okay and the reason we're going to be feeding them straight cracked corn is because this is going to be a whole lot easier to handle when we start dressing the chickens out this will be what's in their gizzard versus a bunch of mushy old mess from that high protein feed that we feed them this is the most awesome feeder and water setup will probably do a little something different with water next year these birds know when it's food time they are really really motivated by food I'll see you I think about one's foot they're too lazy at this point to even get up they are huge huge birds and you'll see tomorrow how big they dress out let's go right here buddy they're just so big they're just so fat these guys are absolutely 100% only motivated by food and water and what's so awesome is that every day they get moved out to new paddock of grass now I know what you're thinking man those birds look really crowded Josh well they're not crowded let me tell you they're grown-up they're big it's time it's slaughter time they're not crowded they move around all the time so these birds get more space than any bird you've ever put your mouth on okay unless you're letting them run around out in your yard these birds are getting more space than any bird you've ever had there's a hundred and twenty square feet in there there are 50 birds and they get moved every day to a new 120 square foot area so if you think about it you multiply that times seven and eight and nine weeks these birds are getting a ton of space and a ton of awesome awesome food all right folks this is the pallet