Introduction to Mobile Coop & Bird Types

Hey folks, this is Josh, Stoney Rich Farmer. Welcome to the Farm Blog today. This is a rainbow ranger broiler from Meyer Hatchery. Today we're going to give you a bit of an update on the mobile chicken coop and our second batch of meat birds that we have here on the farm for this year's food consumption. So come along today on the vlog. We're going to talk to you a little bit about the different types of birds that we have in here. We've got some laying hens. We've got some guineas. We also have these big old fat rainbow ranger broilers and we'll compare the rainbow ranger broiler. This is basically the biggest one in the coop. We'll compare them with the Cornish cross broiler, which is bigger than this guy. So we're at week number five. Come along today. We'll have some fun on the farm. All right. What are you doing, little bird? Guys, so down here in this mobile coop right here are our meat birds for the fall season. In here, we have several different types of birds. Some of these birds, like the guineas, we're going to be releasing out here to kind of free range. And some of these birds, we are moving around on pasture, we've got one right here. They are little escape artists. So these birds are a lot more fun, a lot more, I guess, spunky than the Cornish cross birds. You'd never see a Cornish cross bird at five weeks jump up on the edge of this thing. So they're interesting to raise just a little bit different kind of meat bird. They don't grow quite as fast, but they're still pretty in their interesting, so there's another one out. I had three escapees. That was a Cornish cross trying to get up here, come on, little buddy. So this is the Cornish cross bird, it's a white bird, it's still a heavy tight bird, probably ready to slaughter in about seven to eight weeks versus these rainbow ranger boilers, which I've got one right here, and they're probably ready to slaughter probably about ten or twelve weeks. The food consumption with these birds is pretty similar. I'm going to say that this is much more a robust bird, a bird that can handle being outside, a bird that can handle running and jumping and scratching, where the Cornish cross bird is much more lethargic than these type birds.