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Raising Chickens #1: Ordering from Meyer Hatchery...What the heck is chicken chat??

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What happens here

Josh asks Meghan what he should have ready when he receives his birds, specifically inquiring about brooder box setup. Meghan advises having a warm, draft-free, safe brooder area with a heat source, bedding, food, and water. She also provides a link to Meyer Hatchery's brooder setup guide. Josh then asks about the difference between Ranger meat birds and Cornish Cross meat birds, indicating he's considering free-ranging birds and is interested in Ranger meat birds for their robustness. Meghan explains that Cornish Cross are typical grocery store birds growing to 6-9 pounds in 6-9 weeks, while Ranger meat birds have a different heritage, grow slower to 5-6 pounds in 9-11 weeks, and Black Rangers take 11-13 weeks. Josh concludes he'll likely get Ranger meat birds in the fall due to their hardiness for free-ranging.

Goal: Questions regarding necessary preparations for receiving chicks and differences between meat bird breeds are discussed.

Tools and materials

  • Bedding (Conceptual)
  • Brooder Area (Conceptual)
  • Food and Water (Conceptual)
  • Heat Source (Conceptual)
  • Cornish Cross Meat Birds
  • Ranger Meat Birds

What they say

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guarantee which I had no idea so the next question I'm asking is what should I have ready the brooder box and all that stuff and we'll go into detail about that a little bit later on in the next video series or the next part of this video series and in she's saying I should have a warm brooder area where I can keep him warm and then there's a link down there that she provided and that way I couldn't check it out and see what I need to do now when I ordered my meat birds they talked to me about the Ranger meat birds and I wanted to ask a question about that since we'll be free-ranging these birds I think we'll get a set of Ranger meat Birds they're a little bit more robust bird and require a little bit less care when they're out free-ranging so we'll probably get those in the fall and she's telling me that the Rangers grow to 5 to 6 pounds and 9 9 to 11 weeks and about nine weeks is when your Cornish cross birds are ready to be processed cool and I asked her if they have a blog or a website where a guy could go and find out any information and she said yep you can go to the website you can go to email um info at Meyer hatchery com or you can go to their blog so all kinds of stuff and you can call them and ask questions anytime they're really really really nice people and the health of these birds have really really shined as compared to the birds that I've gotten at my local feed store they've just been a better bird cool well I'm gonna give her a column and click this Call Me button and we'll see if we can do a phone call with her should be pretty cool yes hello let me

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