I just started my first ever batch of broiler chicks yesterday. Starting out small with just 25 chicks. This series of videos gave me the knowledge and confidence to do it. I have been through the entire series several times, and will be watching again week to week as my chicks grow. I really appreciate all of the information that you share. You guys have a great channel!
LOVE your videos!! You make me envious of your life! We own 37 acres 150 miles from where we live and you make me want to homestead there! I live in Mesa, AZ and although I am SICK of city (suburb) living, I don't know if I am capable of living out in the middle of nowhere! Our property is in Heber Overgaard, AZ - I'm sure you know where I am talking about, since you came from Phoenix! Keep up the great work!
I know the area I lived in Maricopa county 32years. After moving to California for seventeen more years finally purchased a small three acre homestead in NM. Believe me your capable of much more then you give yourself credit for. We are over fifty five w disabilities and are living this amazing life on our small farm. We made it handicapped accessible some still in progress. I wish we’d moved farther out w more land but I love it here. Good luck on your property
This is what I have been looking for! We are considering trying some Cornish cross but wanted to see start to finish what we should expect and be prepared for. Your channel is so great! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share them with us!
Thank you Kevin and Sarah! This is by far the most informative and useful channel we've come across so far (and we've seen many!). We plan to be starting our own homestead soon and you are a Godsend.God bless you both!!!
This is exactly what I needed! I’m a newbie homesteader, literally just starting with Cornish cross as my first meat birds. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It makes a newbie like me feel fairly confident! Take care and God Bless
Agreed! This year is my first with chickens and I am using this video as a reference. I brought home 6 day old australorps about 30 minutes ago. These are my practice run before my 15 chanteclers come in the mail in 3 weeks.
Oh boy. There needs to be plucking and killing. I did 10 birds. One had an accident. The rest turned into holy heck big and not even 8 weeks. I hunt ducks and expected cleaning one to be like a duck. It's not. A chicken has tough membranes seperating it's cavity into compartments. Not at all like a wild duck. Plucking is easy. Use them blue work gloves and is fast.
This is really helpful, we had free range chickens when I was small, they ran free & roast in small trees. We found eggs by following hens or listening to the hens cackle when they lay an egg. Every Spring a hen would show up with 12-18 chicks, because we never found her nest & we would lose a few to predators, but we had 25- 50 chickens at all times. So raising chicks is new to me. Rabbit I have raised, no chicks.
Thank you and your wife for all the information you've provided about chickens and baby chicks. Planning to start with some my self for me and my family.
Great video Kevin. I loved it. Loved your thought on using hay instead of straw or wood. The hay is also softer and it will decay quickly in a compost heap. Excellent my friend. Thanks!
I really love the format in which your videos are made. It is helping me to be educated on all details surrounding how to prepare for animals, when to purchase, and finally everything involved in how to harvest. There are so many moving parts to starting, maintaining, and growing your homestead. For a city girl like me, it's a lot! I'm going slowly as I learn, and creating a calendar so I can keep myself organized and I don't feel so overwhelmed. Your videos have been a true blessing. Thank you.
A friend gave me some very old (1920's - 1930's) chicken pamphlets/books on raising chickens. In the one there was an article about coccidiosis. At the time, there was no real treatment for the condition other than keeping the water source clean and even then there was no guarantee of not having a problem with it.
My understanding is that a lot of times they have it before you even get them. That is exactly why we use just the one bag of medicated feed. I figure after the first bag, I can control their environment but I can't control what happened before I received them. BTW...I LOVE reading those old books!
abide by..it makes me proud! No this is not a sales job, just wanted to crow a little about about the finished product. Anyway i know this was long , but thank you for reading. I enjoy watching what you all are doing it brings back many good memories and great times my family enjoyed! I promise i wont post anymore long comments again lol! God bless!
Best homestead ever! When I watch another channel i feel like Im cheating. Im a salesman in manhattan. everyone thinks Im nuts when I watch your show, but they all stop and watch as well, and I caught a cooworker watching too. Thanks for sanity in an insane world!
We two get pasty butt and one died the day after we got them. I put Bragg’s organic vinegar in their water. I was able to clean up their butts though and they’re both still kickin’!
My hatchery here in Canada day to leave the dirty litter in for the first three weeks and just add fresh bedding because they can get the medication through the feet as well. We had 100% survival this year. Got 50 Cornishcross pullets and slaughter 50. Bergs Hatchery here in Manitoba is awesome. Great video.
It has been awhile since i watched any of your videos and was happy to see that you were doing a series on raising chickens! Years ago i had a few acres and did what you 2 did,the kids grew up with plenty of animals around and we had a great way of life.Learned hard lessons along the way about predditors and chickens..black snakes are great for keeping mice and rats under control but not so much help as you said for chicks and eggs lol! MY worst memory was when i raised 150 chicks to butchering size and came home from work planing to start to harvest our home grown meat only to find on the very day i was going to start ,some roge dogs had come threw and had a great time chasing down and killing all but 15 of the 150. I mean to tell you it looked like a war zone , and i will never forget that site and how mad we were! I now am an OLD FART and work @ Perdue Farms where we make the feed for all the chickens that the farmers raise for Perdue Food,, and you all see in the grocery store. You would not believe all the science and tech that goes into making chicken feed and the high standards that we
We don't mind long comments at all! We are so glad you are following us and that it brings back good memories for you! I bet you have a lot of great stories to tell! My heart sank reading your story of the chickens getting attacked. God Bless! Kevin & Sarah
I'm sure you will cover this in a future video, but I'm about 2 weeks ahead of you with my broiler chicks. What do you feed them after the 1st bag of medicated feed. The organic feed is quite expensive and if there is a better price alternative I am highly interested!
We don't feed organic for exactly that reason. We use a good quality, local feed that is an 18% grower feed. After 3 weeks we switch to 12 hours on 12 hours off. That is extremely important or they will grow to fast. We also raise them in tractors so they get all the fresh grass, bugs, etc. that they can eat. Hope this helps!
I am so glad you are doing this series. We wanted to raise these, but have backed off cause of not having enough information or confidence to step out and do it. This video is full of information and I for one am very grateful and wanting to learn. Fantastic video, excited for the next one. Those chicks are adorable. Thank you for sharing.
Another question I wanted to ask is this. Is there a reason you order all roosters? Is there a weight difference in the birds at the end and processed between rooster or hen? Just curious.
Great question! We used to order straight run but noticed the roosters grow much bigger than the hens in the same amount of time and really don't consume much more feed. Here is a link to the hatchery website that shows the feed conversion for males and females. www.welphatchery.com/cornish-rock-broilers/cornish-rock-broiler-male/
Have 100 ordered in for next week with a planned butchering date of about 10 Oct... will be cutting a couple of mineral tubs to make the pan for the water's. Just need to get some Mom's apple cider and should have everything ready for them. We normally do 100 at a time and enjoy learning also. Thanks for the information Kevin.
Please keep this up of your small series like this they are great info. I would recommend keeping a log of expenses so that when you are ready to process the chickens you can provide a cost analysis down to the cost to raise per chicken and $ per LBs of meat.
+TZ Homestead what we plan on doing is letting everyone know exactly how many bags of feed, any chicks we lost, etc at the end so you can figure the cost. Feed prices vary so much from place to place so I think this will be the best way so you can figure out what it would cost in your area.
Welps Hatchery has many selections at a good price but last couple orders I received lots of dead on arrival and some which eventually die within 24 hrs had trouble getting a refund luckily PayPal was able to help me out for me ordering from any hatchery is a gamble
Oh so amazing! I will use the breeder you have...we plan to incubate and also use broody hens to hatch some of our australorp eggs...and also want to order and raise some cornish cross chicks! Thanks for all the information always!
I would love to do this! But physically I'm not able to do it myself and no one wants to do it. So I will be watching you all and looking forward to seeing the video every week. Great video!
I should try grass hay because pine shavings it is a little bit pricey I pay nearly $7 I buy at least 4 bundles every week pine shavings is not that bad it does smell good observes any wetness and poo etc etc but if theirs a plan B where I can save Grass hay it is
good day Keven !! awesome series of video, i think i'm going to really like this as i am wanting to rase my own chicken soon so this will really help me alot !! thanks for sharing and take care and god bless
If you put grit or sand down for the birds they won't get pasty butt. I always put sand with my feet in a separate bowl for my chicks and none of them get pasty butt for capping over
Thank you so much! I have only watched two and haven't been able to find the others, but I was wondering if you can tell us what you feed them after the chick starter and how much of it they get please. thanks!
Are there any good places in Missouri to get chicks where they don't have to be mailed? Is it a bad idea to get chicks from farm and home shops in the Spring?
I don't. I make sure it is up high enough that it's not an issue. If it's low enough to start a fire it would also be low enough to injure the chicks. I always turn it on several hours before the chicks arrive and then put my hand down on the hay to make sure it's not too hot. You could use a thermometer (we did at first) but after you've done it enough times you realize that you don't have to be that accurate! God Bless! - Kevin & Sarah
Excellent video Kevin & Sarah! QUESTION: Did y’all get the chicks the Marek Disease vaccination? We’re just learning about chicks as we want to get some in the spring and we’re also in The Ozarks! Thanks for publishing this video series! On to the next video! - Brian + Erin
Thanks for your response. This week by week update series is just what I was looking for. It was also good info you gave on the ball park figure of the amount of feed it takes to get this breed of birds up to butchering weight. I know I will be referring back to these videos in the future. So much great information here. I am subscribing.
I am wondering the same. Kevin says he feeds 50 chicks medicated feed for 1 bag. He says it lasts around 10 days. My feed stores sell medicated in 50lb bags and smaller bags. I don't see how 50 baby chicks could go through a 50lb bag of feed in 10 days.
Just ordered my catalog from Welp. I put y'all down as where I heard about them from. When you order your chicks do you get the immunization and spray?
I watched all six episodes and am eagerly awaiting week 7. I also watched your video on how to build the tractors. I have to thank you for your unpretentious and yet very informative videos. I have a couple of questions, and I didn't know which video to post them to, so I hope you see this comment. First, what is the minimum amount of land you think is necessary to move the tractors on? I see that you move them to a new spot every day, and I'm wondering if you can put them back on the same patch of land you used on day one on day eight (so basically 7 spots) or if you need to have enough room to have them on a new patch every day for all 8 weeks (56 spots). I live on a quarter acre of land in Hawaii, and wanted to utilize the chickens to lay the foundation for a future garden site if possible. Second, I looked at the Welp site, and I want to know if you recommend the Marek's immunization or not. I don't know a lot about chicken diseases, so I'm not sure if Marek's is deadly. I probably won't attempt a run at Cornish X Rocks until I have a small flock of egg-layers (probably Orpingtons) established, but I definitely want to give it a try.
We do not recommend putting the chickens on an already used spot for the health of the chickens and the health of your soil. We don't put another tractor on the same spot for a year. The chickens are moved into tractors at 3 weeks, so you would need 35 spots per tractor. The nitrogen output of these chickens will require a good several months (I would say 6) to be at a level that will be helpful rather than damaging to a new garden. Regarding Marek's vaccination, it really depends on the incidence in your area. We don't vaccinate and haven't had a problem. But, we know a homestead in Alabama that lost an entire flock due to Marek's.
I purchased 2 Freedom Rangers bc they looked cute 😞 the lady reaching in the chicken pen didnt know what their purpose was, anyway my birds are beyond 5-6 weeks old more like 3.5 months old now, is their a danger or any particular concern to processing and consuming their meat being this old?
I got 25 cornish cross May 26th. I lost 6 baby chicks in the first week leaving me with 19. After the 2nd week I lost 2 more. Im 6 weeks in and all was fine. The last two days Ive lost 3 chickens every morning I go out. Im completely baffled at what is going on. I changed their feed to a grower from a crumble but nothing else has changed. Someone olease help with any info.
I just started my first ever batch of broiler chicks yesterday. Starting out small with just 25 chicks. This series of videos gave me the knowledge and confidence to do it. I have been through the entire series several times, and will be watching again week to week as my chicks grow. I really appreciate all of the information that you share. You guys have a great channel!
LOVE your videos!! You make me envious of your life! We own 37 acres 150 miles from where we live and you make me want to homestead there! I live in Mesa, AZ and although I am SICK of city (suburb) living, I don't know if I am capable of living out in the middle of nowhere! Our property is in Heber Overgaard, AZ - I'm sure you know where I am talking about, since you came from Phoenix! Keep up the great work!
I know the area I lived in Maricopa county 32years. After moving to California for seventeen more years finally purchased a small three acre homestead in NM. Believe me your capable of much more then you give yourself credit for. We are over fifty five w disabilities and are living this amazing life on our small farm. We made it handicapped accessible some still in progress. I wish we’d moved farther out w more land but I love it here. Good luck on your property
I do the same thing with the first bag of feed being medicated , made a huge difference
This is what I have been looking for! We are considering trying some Cornish cross but wanted to see start to finish what we should expect and be prepared for. Your channel is so great! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share them with us!
2022 :)
Austin is so loving and the sheep need her caresses.
So glad I found your channel, then stumbled across this old series!
Thank you Kevin and Sarah! This is by far the most informative and useful channel we've come across so far (and we've seen many!). We plan to be starting our own homestead soon and you are a Godsend.God bless you both!!!
Wow! Thank you so, so much!
This is exactly what I needed! I’m a newbie homesteader, literally just starting with Cornish cross as my first meat birds. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It makes a newbie like me feel fairly confident! Take care and God Bless
Agreed! This year is my first with chickens and I am using this video as a reference. I brought home 6 day old australorps about 30 minutes ago. These are my practice run before my 15 chanteclers come in the mail in 3 weeks.
Oh boy. There needs to be plucking and killing. I did 10 birds. One had an accident. The rest turned into holy heck big and not even 8 weeks.
I hunt ducks and expected cleaning one to be like a duck. It's not. A chicken has tough membranes seperating it's cavity into compartments. Not at all like a wild duck. Plucking is easy. Use them blue work gloves and is fast.
This is really helpful, we had free range chickens when I was small, they ran free & roast in small trees. We found eggs by following hens or listening to the hens cackle when they lay an egg. Every Spring a hen would show up with 12-18 chicks, because we never found her nest & we would lose a few to predators, but we had 25- 50 chickens at all times. So raising chicks is new to me. Rabbit I have raised, no chicks.
Always appreciate your content, thanks!
Thanks guys
The water heater pans are a great tip! Thanks for the info and all your good videos...you guys are the BEST! Seriously the best!
Thank you and your wife for all the information you've provided about chickens and baby chicks.
Planning to start with some my self for me and my family.
Just received this years chicks and all are doing good. Welp Hatchery is stepping up to the line again. I want to thank them and you for the help.
Great video Kevin. I loved it. Loved your thought on using hay instead of straw or wood. The hay is also softer and it will decay quickly in a compost heap. Excellent my friend. Thanks!
Using hay has worked well for us...and ALOT cheaper than wood chips.
I really love the format in which your videos are made.
It is helping me to be educated on all details surrounding how to prepare for animals, when to purchase, and finally everything involved in how to harvest.
There are so many moving parts to starting, maintaining, and growing your homestead. For a city girl like me, it's a lot! I'm going slowly as I learn, and creating a calendar so I can keep myself organized and I don't feel so overwhelmed. Your videos have been a true blessing.
Thank you.
Thank you for all the info. Love your channel. God bless
A friend gave me some very old (1920's - 1930's) chicken pamphlets/books on raising chickens. In the one there was an article about coccidiosis. At the time, there was no real treatment for the condition other than keeping the water source clean and even then there was no guarantee of not having a problem with it.
My understanding is that a lot of times they have it before you even get them. That is exactly why we use just the one bag of medicated feed. I figure after the first bag, I can control their environment but I can't control what happened before I received them. BTW...I LOVE reading those old books!
Vitamin C, Colloidal Silver, and Vitamin D. (it's impossible to overdose on either those vitamins).
🙏🏻🙏🏻Blessings and thank you so much for great information ❣️❣️❣️
abide by..it makes me proud! No this is not a sales job, just wanted to crow a little about about the finished product. Anyway i know this was long , but thank you for reading. I enjoy watching what you all are doing it brings back many good memories and great times my family enjoyed! I promise i wont post anymore long comments again lol! God bless!
Best homestead ever! When I watch another channel i feel like Im cheating. Im a salesman in manhattan. everyone thinks Im nuts when I watch your show, but they all stop and watch as well, and I caught a cooworker watching too. Thanks for sanity in an insane world!
Thanks for this series I accidentally ordered 25 meat chickens last night so I'll be watching the whole thing today
Excellent Presentation accurate and really good advise, Thanks for this. Very informative.
We two get pasty butt and one died the day after we got them. I put Bragg’s organic vinegar in their water. I was able to clean up their butts though and they’re both still kickin’!
Thanks
Great tip on the water pans!!
Thanks! They work especially well for ducklings and goslings...they're so messy.
I love these videos. I refer to them again and again. My first batch of CC are arriving this week. Pretty excited.
Where did you order them from?
@@marysmith2481 Welp. Received them today. Every one looks good so far.
This is absolutely amazing - so informative, and the chicks are darling. Thanks for your expertise!
Some really good new ideas about raising chicks. Glad I watched this.
My hatchery here in Canada day to leave the dirty litter in for the first three weeks and just add fresh bedding because they can get the medication through the feet as well. We had 100% survival this year. Got 50 Cornishcross pullets and slaughter 50. Bergs Hatchery here in Manitoba is awesome. Great video.
Wow! Great tip. Will have to try it next year.
Thank you for the information, I'm waiting for my chicks to come.
We got our and we had 50 also and we haven't done any recently because my Husband had a Heart attack so it's been on hold for a bit
It has been awhile since i watched any of your videos and was happy to see that you were doing a series on raising chickens! Years ago i had a few acres and did what you 2 did,the kids grew up with plenty of animals around and we had a great way of life.Learned hard lessons along the way about predditors and chickens..black snakes are great for keeping mice and rats under control but not so much help as you said for chicks and eggs lol! MY worst memory was when i raised 150 chicks to butchering size and came home from work planing to start to harvest our home grown meat only to find on the very day i was going to start ,some roge dogs had come threw and had a great time chasing down and killing all but 15 of the 150. I mean to tell you it looked like a war zone , and i will never forget that site and how mad we were! I now am an OLD FART and work @ Perdue Farms where we make the feed for all the chickens that the farmers raise for Perdue Food,, and you all see in the grocery store. You would not believe all the science and tech that goes into making chicken feed and the high standards that we
We don't mind long comments at all! We are so glad you are following us and that it brings back good memories for you! I bet you have a lot of great stories to tell! My heart sank reading your story of the chickens getting attacked. God Bless! Kevin & Sarah
Thanks for the informative videos...we are just starting to raise hens, along with chickens and turkeys. Starting a full blown poultry farm in 2022
I'm a city girl, so everything you do is exciting so interesting
Excellent information! I'm currently doing my 1st batch of broiler chickens (25 Cornish Cross). Just learning as I go!
I'm sure you will cover this in a future video, but I'm about 2 weeks ahead of you with my broiler chicks. What do you feed them after the 1st bag of medicated feed. The organic feed is quite expensive and if there is a better price alternative I am highly interested!
We don't feed organic for exactly that reason. We use a good quality, local feed that is an 18% grower feed. After 3 weeks we switch to 12 hours on 12 hours off. That is extremely important or they will grow to fast. We also raise them in tractors so they get all the fresh grass, bugs, etc. that they can eat. Hope this helps!
Thanks for sharing this great info on raising chickens, will be watching the rest of the chicken videos. Thanks and have a great day.
Great info, on my first batch 🐥🐥🐤🐣🐣
I am so glad you are doing this series. We wanted to raise these, but have backed off cause of not having enough information or confidence to step out and do it. This video is full of information and I for one am very grateful and wanting to learn.
Fantastic video, excited for the next one. Those chicks are adorable. Thank you for sharing.
Another question I wanted to ask is this. Is there a reason you order all roosters? Is there a weight difference in the birds at the end and processed between rooster or hen? Just curious.
Great question! We used to order straight run but noticed the roosters grow much bigger than the hens in the same amount of time and really don't consume much more feed. Here is a link to the hatchery website that shows the feed conversion for males and females. www.welphatchery.com/cornish-rock-broilers/cornish-rock-broiler-male/
awesome, thank you.
Have 100 ordered in for next week with a planned butchering date of about 10 Oct... will be cutting a couple of mineral tubs to make the pan for the water's. Just need to get some Mom's apple cider and should have everything ready for them. We normally do 100 at a time and enjoy learning also. Thanks for the information Kevin.
Please keep this up of your small series like this they are great info. I would recommend keeping a log of expenses so that when you are ready to process the chickens you can provide a cost analysis down to the cost to raise per chicken and $ per LBs of meat.
+TZ Homestead what we plan on doing is letting everyone know exactly how many bags of feed, any chicks we lost, etc at the end so you can figure the cost. Feed prices vary so much from place to place so I think this will be the best way so you can figure out what it would cost in your area.
Very informational video for beginners! Can't wait for future videos. Thanks
Thanks! We will be doing these weekly until they are ready to process. Glad you enjoyed it! God Bless! - Kevin & Sarah
Welps Hatchery has many selections at a good price but last couple orders I received lots of dead on arrival and some which eventually die within 24 hrs had trouble getting a refund luckily PayPal was able to help me out for me ordering from any hatchery is a gamble
The chickens were my responsibility growing up on my grandparents farm. I sure miss that life.
Want to come over and do some chores! haha. It's a great life for sure. God Bless. Kevin
3608 views come on people this guy is giving you gold!!!! GREAT advice brother, nice tips!!!
Excellent baby chick video. Thanks. :)
I just LOVE this series!!!
As always, I enjoyed your video and sharing your experience. Keep 'em coming!
Saving to my playlist. Thanks so much😀😀
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. We will be doing one each week until they are ready to process!
Dear Kevin and Sarah. Thank you for the very informative series. Do you ferment the medicated chick starter feed?
So cute
Oh so amazing! I will use the breeder you have...we plan to incubate and also use broody hens to hatch some of our australorp eggs...and also want to order and raise some cornish cross chicks! Thanks for all the information always!
You never know, I would love to come visit!
I would love to do this! But physically I'm not able to do it myself and no one wants to do it. So I will be watching you all and looking forward to seeing the video every week.
Great video!
Glad you will be tuning in for the series!
Great video!
Great Video. Thank you
Enjoyed the video!
Seen alot of videos and this is thw most informative one. Great job. I will subscribe
How much apple cider vinegar do you put in the water
I should try grass hay because pine shavings it is a little bit pricey I pay nearly $7 I buy at least 4 bundles every week pine shavings is not that bad it does smell good observes any wetness and poo etc etc but if theirs a plan B where I can save Grass hay it is
Very helpful! Thank you!
Hey Kevin is the Cornish Cross the same thing as Cornish Rock from Welp Hatchery? Love y'all's channel!! Hope to meet y'all one day?
Yes is the same...
Super informative, thanks!
acv and honey,,,,,,,,works awesome,
Is the Apple cider vinegar added to the water up until butchering, or just for the first 3 weeks?
I usually only do it for the first few weeks
great video thank you
good day Keven !! awesome series of video, i think i'm going to really like this as i am wanting to rase my own chicken soon so this will really help me alot !! thanks for sharing and take care and god bless
If you put grit or sand down for the birds they won't get pasty butt. I always put sand with my feet in a separate bowl for my chicks and none of them get pasty butt for capping over
Thank you so much! I have only watched two and haven't been able to find the others, but I was wondering if you can tell us what you feed them after the chick starter and how much of it they get please. thanks!
Welp Hatchery must have raised their prices, after all the shipping, they were almost twice what I got my chicks from another hatchery (Myers Poultry)
Great Info!!!
How much medicated chick starter do the fifty birds use during their time in the brooding pen until they move to the tractor?
Are there any good places in Missouri to get chicks where they don't have to be mailed? Is it a bad idea to get chicks from farm and home shops in the Spring?
What kind of feed do you feed them up to harvest?
Do you worry about the heat lamp causing the hay to catch fire?
I don't. I make sure it is up high enough that it's not an issue. If it's low enough to start a fire it would also be low enough to injure the chicks. I always turn it on several hours before the chicks arrive and then put my hand down on the hay to make sure it's not too hot. You could use a thermometer (we did at first) but after you've done it enough times you realize that you don't have to be that accurate! God Bless! - Kevin & Sarah
okay i went back and you said how much thanks
more good info
How large is the 1 bag if medicated feed?
How come you can't raise them over the winter months if you keep them warm until they are feathered ,is it a personal preference?
Excellent video Kevin & Sarah! QUESTION: Did y’all get the chicks the Marek Disease vaccination?
We’re just learning about chicks as we want to get some in the spring and we’re also in The Ozarks!
Thanks for publishing this video series! On to the next video!
- Brian + Erin
I am watching my 2nd time. Going for chicks soon. I am getting a few ducks. Would i be able to keep them together.?
What size pound bag of medicated do you give them? (50 bird ratio)
What is the water to vinegar ratio you use?
Great series! Is the Cornish Rock Broiler the same as a Cornish Cross Broiler. I don't see the Cornish Cross on the Welp website.
+Almost Homestead Yes. Each hatchery has its own name for their version of Cornish Cross.
Thank you for this series.
Do you have the chicks immunized for Mareks disease?
+Georgia Boy We do not have them vaccinated and have never had a problem.
Thanks for your response.
This week by week update series is just what I was looking for.
It was also good info you gave on the ball park figure of the amount of feed it takes to get this breed of birds up to butchering weight. I know I will be referring back to these videos in the future. So much great information here. I am subscribing.
Thanks so much! Glad you are finding them useful. If there's anything I haven't covered, feel free to ask. - Kevin
Where do you get the feed pan? What dimensions is it?
My cornish cross acts sick can I still process it?
What pound bag of feed do you buy
I am wondering the same. Kevin says he feeds 50 chicks medicated feed for 1 bag. He says it lasts around 10 days. My feed stores sell medicated in 50lb bags and smaller bags. I don't see how 50 baby chicks could go through a 50lb bag of feed in 10 days.
Just ordered my catalog from Welp. I put y'all down as where I heard about them from. When you order your chicks do you get the immunization and spray?
Where do you get the watering tray? Or is it all together when you get it?
I'm getting my first chicks.
Hey boss what would your best guess be at how much feed a guy would need to buy to raise 25 cornish cross meat chickens from start to finish ??
Would heat lamps with aluminum shade work,,
I have not seen any glass ones. How much food per day cup wise for grown chicken..
Fot chick..
I watched all six episodes and am eagerly awaiting week 7. I also watched your video on how to build the tractors. I have to thank you for your unpretentious and yet very informative videos. I have a couple of questions, and I didn't know which video to post them to, so I hope you see this comment. First, what is the minimum amount of land you think is necessary to move the tractors on? I see that you move them to a new spot every day, and I'm wondering if you can put them back on the same patch of land you used on day one on day eight (so basically 7 spots) or if you need to have enough room to have them on a new patch every day for all 8 weeks (56 spots). I live on a quarter acre of land in Hawaii, and wanted to utilize the chickens to lay the foundation for a future garden site if possible. Second, I looked at the Welp site, and I want to know if you recommend the Marek's immunization or not. I don't know a lot about chicken diseases, so I'm not sure if Marek's is deadly. I probably won't attempt a run at Cornish X Rocks until I have a small flock of egg-layers (probably Orpingtons) established, but I definitely want to give it a try.
We do not recommend putting the chickens on an already used spot for the health of the chickens and the health of your soil. We don't put another tractor on the same spot for a year. The chickens are moved into tractors at 3 weeks, so you would need 35 spots per tractor. The nitrogen output of these chickens will require a good several months (I would say 6) to be at a level that will be helpful rather than damaging to a new garden. Regarding Marek's vaccination, it really depends on the incidence in your area. We don't vaccinate and haven't had a problem. But, we know a homestead in Alabama that lost an entire flock due to Marek's.
Thank you so much! Very helpful information. I'm going to go out and measure my available space to ensure I have enough room for the meat birds!
How many chicks are in the box?
I purchased 2 Freedom Rangers bc they looked cute 😞 the lady reaching in the chicken pen didnt know what their purpose was, anyway my birds are beyond 5-6 weeks old more like 3.5 months old now, is their a danger or any particular concern to processing and consuming their meat being this old?
how many chickens do y'all raise in a year? do you sell a lot of them at the farmers market, or are they mainly for your own food?
I got 25 cornish cross May 26th. I lost 6 baby chicks in the first week leaving me with 19. After the 2nd week I lost 2 more. Im 6 weeks in and all was fine. The last two days Ive lost 3 chickens every morning I go out. Im completely baffled at what is going on. I changed their feed to a grower from a crumble but nothing else has changed. Someone olease help with any info.
What is the protein content of the feed?
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Those snakes are tricky!!
How old do they have to be when you can feed them fodder. Thank you for your time and God bless.
After 3 weeks, we put them in tractors on grass and chick feed and move the tractors daily