Understand Chicken Growth and Breeds

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The presenter highlights Cornish Cross chickens as the breed of choice for meat production due to their exceptionally fast growth rate. These birds typically reach market weight in about 8 to 9 weeks, making them a very efficient option for homesteaders or small-scale farmers focused on meat. The discussion emphasizes the importance of selecting breeds tailored for meat production to achieve desired results within a short timeframe. Knowing the growth stages helps in planning the feeding program and processing schedule.

Goal: This step provides insight into selecting appropriate meat chicken breeds, such as Cornish Cross, and understanding their rapid growth cycle for efficient production.

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Cornish Cross Chickens

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so before you get distracted it's hot out here and I'm going to be sweating money into the video that's just it that's just a reality of living out in the country living on the farm and working on a farm so I'm going to be wet by the end of this video this is our mobile PVC chicken tractor and at the end of the video there'll be a link on how we built this and how we use this this is good enough to house 50 chickens for probably the first five or six weeks of their lives and then it starts getting too crowded for 50 chickens so what we did this year because it got so crowded was we picked up this shock or not fence from premiere one fencing the Shocker not fence will shock your birds if they're trying to get out or predators if they're trying to get in but it has a tight mesh at the bottom so when they're baby chicks they won't get into that mesh and they won't get shot we don't want to shock our birds and if you know how an electric fence system works there's a solar charger down here

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