Move Chicks from Brooder to Pasture

go into the pasture alright the answer to the inevitable question Josh how do I know when to take my birds out of the brooder when they're getting crowded when they're getting big enough to jump out of the brooder or when they start getting feathers ok or in a situation like this it's 80 degrees outside the low temps are going to be around 65 so over the past 4 days I've taken the heat lamp off of these birds I've let them start getting that sleep and wake cycle so nighttime it's dark daytime it's light I'm feeding them 12 hours on and 12 hours off now that's how you know so once your birds are feathered out they are ready to come out of the brooder now you won't get as many feathers on the Cornish cross birds as you're going to get on the Ranger broilers the Ranger broilers are a little bit smaller they consume the same amount of food they have to live a little bit longer before you process so in my humble opinion the Cornish cross is the best bird for your meat you can get a rainbow Ranger but the rainbow Ranger is going to forge a little bit better it's a little tougher a little more robust bird it's better on pasture however it's also better free-range however the Cornish cross meat bird grows so fast and you can't just let these birds live on grass they won't just live on grass they have to have a high-protein food in order to grow to get big enough to process the Cornish cross bird will be somewhere around six to eight weeks in the rainbow Ranger or Ranger broiler bird will be somewhere between six and ten weeks something like that so they eat more rangers eat more grow slower better for foraging better for free ranging a little bit tougher bird however I'm a huge fan of the Cornish cross birds everybody makes fun of them they say our feeding up steroid you're doing that it's just a breed of bird that's bred to grow fast grow big robust breast and have tender juicy meat that's what I like about the Cornish cross now we're gonna load these guys up in buckets basically and just take them down there and let them loose for their first time in the grass can't wait to let our chickens be chickens probably about one pound and you can see he's totally feathered out and he's ready to go first it's pretty normal go figure it all out