If you have a spare refrigerator, its nice to allow them to set in refrigeration for 3 or 4 days before going to the freezer. Rigor mortise sets in soon after death, this is just the contraction of the muscles. By allowing them to rest in refrigeration for a few days, the muscles relax, making for a more tender bird. By going to the freezer right away, the meat stays in the tense stage and can not relax. There is nothing wrong with going straight to the freezer, its just a nice extra step if you are capable of doing it. Thanks for all the great video's Jason! They are really enjoyable and we appreciate all the work you put into them for us!
We raise & process our chickens for the same quality of products as you do. We know they had good housing care and environment and their purpose is to be our food 🥘.
Canning chicken is so easy and super good. We love to make a quick chicken salad with homemade mayo with canned chicken. It’s great for soup or pretty much any meal.
I finally tried using chicken feet to make broth. You might want to show how to peel the toenails and pull the skin off of the chicken feet. It’s quite easy. Then freeze them. Works great and isn’t gross at all.
your Q&A is so much better than a live show.... I also like your answer regarding killing chickens-that makes perfect sense.... can't wait to see the taste test video!
Another great Sow the Land video. Great job and even better information. I'll repeat this here on your blog for those who ask how you feel about "HARVEsTING" animal you raised. When it comes to our food, from a single blade of grass, to the great bison, something must die for us to sustain life. :)
@@SowtheLand growing and harvesting our food either animal or vegetable, for me I did not feel sadness for very long because I thought I had a great responsibility and privilage to grow and share what food I could produce and for me it felt like joy, not for the killing but for the good relationship of service to my food and to those who ate the food. just a thought! Blessings to your family.
I truly enjoy eating chicken, and i feel to have the ability to raise and prepare your own fresh chicken is so wonderful, so many times I have not purchased chicken from the grocery store because it just did not look fresh or healthy,
You shouldn't be sad bothering your chickens. They are fulfilling their purpose. Like you said you know what they have eaten and how they were treated. They had good lives and are fulfilling their purpose of feeding your family. It would be sad if they died for no reason and were discarded. Great video as usual.
Thank-you Ivan, exactly what I was thinking. I love animals but certain ones are intended for Mankind's consumption. If your killing MORE than you can eat, for me that's a problem. If your JUST KILLING, then something's wrong with you...
Thanks for this Q&A. Have you figured price per pound to raise? Freedom Rangers were larger, but ate feed 4 weeks longer than CC. Great attitude about the food you raise!
Freedom Rangers more like chickens. Cornish to me never act like a normal chicken.they kinda creep me out! For our family big cornish breasts are not a plus as we.prefer dark meat!!
Have you thought about flattening the chickens? You can stack them and get lots more in the freezer. It also saves a wee bit of money because they don't take as long to cook.
Davis is finished with his 6 chickens we bought from you 😊. As we discussed with you guys, he eats a lot of chicken, since it is the only food he can eat now due to his disease. I am happy to report that he says he CAN taste a difference, and that Sow The Land chicken is better than all other chicken he has had! That is pretty high praise, lol! Thanks to the three of you for ethically raising food that he enjoyed very much!
The weights are comparable to my freedom rangers that I’ve always raised. I feed my dogs raw so they love chicken processing day not so much gizzards. I give thanks when I take their life. I feel freedom rangers have a better depth of flavor, they are more active and better foraging birds. I like darker meat and the crosses have been optimized genetically to have such breast that they have a hard time moving around with a lot of leg issues at least for me. Thanks Sow the Land for sharing I appreciate your time and effort.👩🏼🌾👍🐥🐣🐔❤️
What a blessing to be able to know exactly where your food comes from & how it was raised. You are right about it being healthy to feel bad & understand the gift of life they provide.
When would butch, often nearly a hundred at a time. So we kept them in ice water til very cooled down, then wrapped and quickly put into the freezer. We had a very large freezer. Dad sold some and wee always had enough.
i really enjoy your vlog unlike many of the other homesteaders your family seems the most down to earth..it is so refreshing not to watch an opening of "gifts" from supporters ,[sorry it gets old]...it is also a pleasure to watch people work with a purpose and a plan and common sense..all your dual purpose plans and projects are great , but your art work is amazing..this is the first time i have left a comment on anyone's vlog..thank you for sharing your experiences..
I envy your freezers! LOL! One day I will grow up and be just like you; freezers full of home raised beef, chicken and pork! YUMMO! Many blessings from NE Missouri!
I used to grow up in the countryside of the Netherlands & at home we had chickens / turkey / pigs / cows and horses / rabbits and of course a vegetable garden. my father had these animals purely for slaughter and for the own use of our family. I was brought up with it & later I became a professional butcher myself
Loved your excitement in growing your own wonderful meat. It is so much satisfaction looking into that freezer and knowing.. We did this. (In fact I got excited looking in yours LOL) And we know what we are eating. I love that you envolve your daughter as well. My childern are all grown up and are doing this for themselves and their families. I am a cornish cross person.. not cornish rock, but cornish cross. Think how big the cornish cross would have been had you let them go as long as the rangers. I like mine about 7-8 #'s. We know just what lovely chicken dinners you will be having this winter.. Thank you for sharing .
I love watching yalls videos. Plus I just noticed that you all were at 30,000 subscribers around 2 months ago and now you over 53,000. Wow I think that's amazing, I hope that it keeps doubling fast, you all deserve it!! God bless!!
Excellent set of videos over the last 3 years. Processing own chickens for the first time this weekend and have utilized various top notch TH-cam resources to get to this point. We have been gardeners, and now trying to come full circle for the regenerative agriculture concept and also to take control of what we eat. Feel like a lot of issues might be helped by “own”ing the process. Done tons of research to help autoimmune issues so speaking from a position of strength - not panic.
Thank you for q&a. I can not understand why 2k people have seen this, and only 400 thunbs up!! You. Should have all thumbs up on everyone. This is only me saying this its my opinion. Have you ever thought of selling some, if so will you ship?
Great video Sow the Land! Thank you for sharing what is important to you! Have you ever considered just burying or composting the feathers they are a good source of nutrients for the land as well! Also the guts can be buried too! Thank you so much for what you do.
Another wonderful and informative video! Jason we so enjoy your laugh and style of videoing. It is great watching Lorraine and Penelope be an integral part of this all! Great q and a session!
I raised a few Freedom Rangers this year, and absolutely loved them. Super easy care, and the flavor was THE BEST chicken I've ever had! So good. I won't ever be raising any other breed. I'll be very interested in your taste test!
I used to can chicken soup by parboiling the chicken and deboning it. I would place a portion of the chicken in the bottom of the jar and top it with fresh, raw veggies. Pour chicken broth over and process. It was a quick meal for when I was super busy with other farm stuff. Great video, by the way.
I'm going to be honest, I appreciate that your titles for your videos are appropriate because I don't care to watch butchering of animals and that's just me. About 5 years ago after watching a chef take his staff from his restaurant to a place where he was going to butcher a goat and he spent all day going back and forth trying to build the courage. He had such a hard time, and after his very difficult experience he posted in front of his restaurant that no life would be taken and wasted and that if customers were not going to finish their food they had to take it. I started to ask myself if I could kill an animal to eat it and I know I can't, so why should I expect anyone else to have to do it for me. So I started eating differently and supplementing when needed. I respect and appreciate that you can, I also appreciate how difficult it must be for you after caring for them for weeks. Thank you for sharing!
We are raising red rangers. Same as the freedom, just a different hatchery. I agree about their temperment! I have a couple roosters that will peck my feet and the backs of my calves once in a while. Usually when I am later than usual w their food. But overall, we have 8breeds, 65 total chickens, and the rangers are the friendliest. We are actually keeping one of the roos for our egg flock bc he is so calm.
Thank you for the Q & A. I love how others said the chickens fulfilled their purpose of life. And I believe God made everything, and he put some of the animals on this planet for the purpose of feeding us. I love also that the vloggers I watch do the killing in a very humane way, so the animals don’t suffer. The whole process, from raising the chicks to becoming food, can be done in a very “loving” way, like another comment said, they had a wonderful life.
For us we do leave the chicken on ice for three days. Is what we notice is this makes them more tender. We have eaten a chicken the same day it was butchered and have noticed it can be tough. So that is why we do what we do. I’ve enjoyed your meat chicken series. We to raised both freedom rangers and Cornish cross this year. I still like both breeds and will probably raise both next year again if we need the meat. Next year we’ll have two steers ready to put in the freezer so we’ll probably need the freezer space for them. Hopefully we’ll also have some wild game in the freezer as well this fall. Anyhow. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Hello Jason, I really enjoyed this video, and I am looking forward to watching more. I am planning on doing meat birds in the spring so this was very interesting and informative. Thank you so much for sharing. Have a Blessed Week **HUGS & PRAYERS** from Kelly and critters at Piney Haven Homestead.
We bury the feathers in our compost and we butcher around 30 chickens twice a year as well. We have more feathers blowing around from where the plucker was because we're not the best at picking up every last feather, lol.
Was literally just going to write this I've watched someone here on TH-cam burying their kitchen scraps/hair from hair cuts/and feathers in their garden for direct composting.
if i have been your neighbor, i would have taken the gizzards.... you can clean it thoroughly and cook them like beef steaks with plenty of garlic and onions... you can make chicken macaroni salad too
Since we also raised chickens a number of years ago, I'll wager that you'll prefer the Freedom Ranger's taste and texture. Those birds have a more varied diet with plenty of greens. I prefer the dark meat on a bird... the white of the FR's should have a 'firmer/moister' texture, more like the dark meat. Am looking forward to your taste test comparison.
Good job Jason! I'm a bit baffled though. We did a side by side trial of FR and CC. We have the FR 3 extra weeks and they were still 2 pounds less than the CC, at 4-5 pounds each. We have done CC only since then and at 8 weeks they are averaging 6.5 pounds. We tractor and ration food (12on/12off) with them too.
Due to Newcastles in CA we can't get birds shipped in. We ate NOT in quarantine area but birds would be shipped to that majn post office so NO CHICKS.Lucky me.... I hapoened to have a pair of rangers! Yep running incubator constantly. Now to wait for pullets to start laying! Self suffiency - next level!!! Doesn't do much for fast freezee filling but a few at a time works too. Next to learn to can meat!!!
Good Q and A. When you compost feathers, I'm pretty sure that you mix it into the regular compost heap and they break down. I would think you would do it with the hot compost method. Cost per pound, the Cornish cross would probably be the better bird. Is one breed more hardy than the other? I do like seeing the freedom ranger more so than the Cornish cross. They are more appealing overall to me.
I vote for Freedom Rangers and hope you try other breeds in the future. From what I understand (which is not always correct), 95% of chicken from store is Cornish Cross. (98% of corn products we eat are Roundup ready). Diversify. I can say more. I can do more, but with the situation I am back in SoCal OC. Just glad it is cooler than you old stomping grounds. Our coolest summer yet.
Good info, as usual, your recaps of a project are very informative. Must be hard to pick just one meat bird, curiosity would get me. To try some heirloom breed would seem fun, God bless your efforts!
Very informative. Thanks for taking us through a Q&A and sharing your experience. It helps, especially if you are deciding on chickens to raise. You can read and research all day but when it comes down to it, field experience from someone you can trust, well, nothing like it. So, one question. What was the price per pound to raise? Or did you track that? Be safe, be good, God bless
Excellent chicken haul. I'm with you I like the freedom rangers better. The Cornish X are good for fryers, but the freedom rangers I think are better for all-purpose. I've never let Cornish X go 12 weeks how much did they weigh? And wow having too many chickens for my freezer would be a problem I wouldn't mind having. Thanks for sharing your homestead with us, Jimmy
Hi.... Jason, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🐔🐓🐥🌱🎥👍👍👍
If you have a spare refrigerator, its nice to allow them to set in refrigeration for 3 or 4 days before going to the freezer. Rigor mortise sets in soon after death, this is just the contraction of the muscles. By allowing them to rest in refrigeration for a few days, the muscles relax, making for a more tender bird. By going to the freezer right away, the meat stays in the tense stage and can not relax. There is nothing wrong with going straight to the freezer, its just a nice extra step if you are capable of doing it. Thanks for all the great video's Jason! They are really enjoyable and we appreciate all the work you put into them for us!
Thank you for that info.
We raise & process our chickens for the same quality of products as you do. We know they had good housing care and environment and their purpose is to be our food 🥘.
Canning chicken is so easy and super good. We love to make a quick chicken salad with homemade mayo with canned chicken. It’s great for soup or pretty much any meal.
...and also thankful and grateful for the chickens' sacrifice.
I finally tried using chicken feet to make broth. You might want to show how to peel the toenails and pull the skin off of the chicken feet. It’s quite easy. Then freeze them. Works great and isn’t gross at all.
your Q&A is so much better than a live show.... I also like your answer regarding killing chickens-that makes perfect sense.... can't wait to see the taste test video!
Beautiful family, beautiful life....
Try dehydrating the blood to make blood meal for your garden also dry the feathers then grind them up to make a feather meal for the garden.
Another great Sow the Land video. Great job and even better information. I'll repeat this here on your blog for those who ask how you feel about "HARVEsTING" animal you raised.
When it comes to our food, from a single blade of grass, to the great bison, something must die for us to sustain life. :)
thanks Thomas!
@@SowtheLand growing and harvesting our food either animal or vegetable, for me I did not feel sadness for very long because I thought I had a great responsibility and privilage to grow and share what food I could produce and for me it felt like joy, not for the killing but for the good relationship of service to my food and to those who ate the food. just a thought! Blessings to your family.
I truly enjoy eating chicken, and i feel to have the ability to raise and prepare your own fresh chicken is so wonderful, so many times I have not purchased chicken from the grocery store because it just did not look fresh or healthy,
Gizzards are delish!
I LOVE gizzards too, dredged in flour and lightly fried. YUMMY!! We grew up eating all the parts but the gizzards were my favorite second to livers.
Pressure canning chicken is so easy and great for quick meals. Another super video💥
You shouldn't be sad bothering your chickens. They are fulfilling their purpose. Like you said you know what they have eaten and how they were treated. They had good lives and are fulfilling their purpose of feeding your family. It would be sad if they died for no reason and were discarded. Great video as usual.
Thank-you Ivan, exactly what I was thinking. I love animals but certain ones are intended for Mankind's consumption. If your killing MORE than you can eat, for me that's a problem. If your JUST KILLING, then something's wrong with you...
Enjoyed the video Jason. Y'all take care and God bless.
Thanks for this Q&A. Have you figured price per pound to raise? Freedom Rangers were larger, but ate feed 4 weeks longer than CC. Great attitude about the food you raise!
Freedom Rangers more like chickens. Cornish to me never act like a normal chicken.they kinda creep me out! For our family big cornish breasts are not a plus as we.prefer dark meat!!
Cornish X gets to butcher weight faster so less expensive on feed. Great videos
Have you thought about flattening the chickens? You can stack them and get lots more in the freezer. It also saves a wee bit of money because they don't take as long to cook.
Davis is finished with his 6 chickens we bought from you 😊. As we discussed with you guys, he eats a lot of chicken, since it is the only food he can eat now due to his disease. I am happy to report that he says he CAN taste a difference, and that Sow The Land chicken is better than all other chicken he has had! That is pretty high praise, lol! Thanks to the three of you for ethically raising food that he enjoyed very much!
It's an awesome day to be able to reap the rewards for good hard work thank you
The weights are comparable to my freedom rangers that I’ve always raised. I feed my dogs raw so they love chicken processing day not so much gizzards. I give thanks when I take their life. I feel freedom rangers have a better depth of flavor, they are more active and better foraging birds. I like darker meat and the crosses have been optimized genetically to have such breast that they have a hard time moving around with a lot of leg issues at least for me. Thanks Sow the Land for sharing I appreciate your time and effort.👩🏼🌾👍🐥🐣🐔❤️
wow u can really see a difference in the sizes of the ones today compared to last month
Great video like always. You guys are great. Thank you for taking your time to answer questions.
I enjoy your channel. Your small scale compared to some others and I enjoy your family.
What a blessing to be able to know exactly where your food comes from & how it was raised. You are right about it being healthy to feel bad & understand the gift of life they provide.
When would butch, often nearly a hundred at a time. So we kept them in ice water til very cooled down, then wrapped and quickly put into the freezer. We had a very large freezer. Dad sold some and wee always had enough.
i really enjoy your vlog unlike many of the other homesteaders your family seems the most down to earth..it is so refreshing not to watch an opening of "gifts" from supporters ,[sorry it gets old]...it is also a pleasure to watch people work with a purpose and a plan and common sense..all your dual purpose plans and projects are great , but your art work is amazing..this is the first time i have left a comment on anyone's vlog..thank you for sharing your experiences..
I envy your freezers! LOL! One day I will grow up and be just like you; freezers full of home raised beef, chicken and pork! YUMMO! Many blessings from NE Missouri!
I used to grow up in the countryside of the Netherlands & at home we had chickens / turkey / pigs / cows and horses / rabbits and of course a vegetable garden. my father had these animals purely for slaughter and for the own use of our family.
I was brought up with it & later I became a professional butcher myself
Jason, Love the Pole Shed that you where in at end of Video.... Thank You Sir.
See that there are No Hats 4 Sale
Loved your excitement in growing your own wonderful meat. It is so much satisfaction looking into that freezer and knowing.. We did this. (In fact I got excited looking in yours LOL) And we know what we are eating. I love that you envolve your daughter as well. My childern are all grown up and are doing this for themselves and their families.
I am a cornish cross person.. not cornish rock, but cornish cross. Think how big the cornish cross would have been had you let them go as long as the rangers. I like mine about 7-8 #'s.
We know just what lovely chicken dinners you will be having this winter.. Thank you for sharing .
I love watching yalls videos. Plus I just noticed that you all were at 30,000 subscribers around 2 months ago and now you over 53,000. Wow I think that's amazing, I hope that it keeps doubling fast, you all deserve it!! God bless!!
Excellent set of videos over the last 3 years. Processing own chickens for the first time this weekend and have utilized various top notch TH-cam resources to get to this point. We have been gardeners, and now trying to come full circle for the regenerative agriculture concept and also to take control of what we eat. Feel like a lot of issues might be helped by “own”ing the process. Done tons of research to help autoimmune issues so speaking from a position of strength - not panic.
Great q & a. Thank you. So much information.
Gee thanks for all that information. You answered all my questions. 💕Love you guys channel. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you for q&a. I can not understand why 2k people have seen this, and only 400 thunbs up!! You. Should have all thumbs up on everyone. This is only me saying this its my opinion. Have you ever thought of selling some, if so will you ship?
Great video Sow the Land! Thank you for sharing what is important to you! Have you ever considered just burying or composting the feathers they are a good source of nutrients for the land as well! Also the guts can be buried too! Thank you so much for what you do.
Another wonderful and informative video! Jason we so enjoy your laugh and style of videoing. It is great watching Lorraine and Penelope be an integral part of this all! Great q and a session!
Great videos! Thanks for the information and your honesty.
You all are so inspiring. Your attitude gives me hope for the future! Thank you for sharing.
I raised a few Freedom Rangers this year, and absolutely loved them. Super easy care, and the flavor was THE BEST chicken I've ever had! So good. I won't ever be raising any other breed. I'll be very interested in your taste test!
I used to can chicken soup by parboiling the chicken and deboning it. I would place a portion of the chicken in the bottom of the jar and top it with fresh, raw veggies. Pour chicken broth over and process. It was a quick meal for when I was super busy with other farm stuff. Great video, by the way.
What a sweet family
Thank you for sharing this. I had those same question and you answered them for me
Nice Haul! Good Eats for sure.
You can bury those innards and it will fertilize the soil, or take them to the woods somewhere for wildlife
I liked the Q&A!
Golly, I hope you have a backup generator!
I'm waiting on that taste test..😆
Have a wonderful tomorrow night 🌻🌻
No need to worry about the feathers the sparrows and finches as well as other birds will snatched them up to build their nests!
Cornish cross wins the taste test ,,,,,every time!!!
Chicken foot soup, curried chicken feet, brown stew chicken feet! Yummy 🇯🇲🇯🇲
love chicken foot soup with some yam dasheen cyote all kind of Jamaican veggies
I'm going to be honest, I appreciate that your titles for your videos are appropriate because I don't care to watch butchering of animals and that's just me. About 5 years ago after watching a chef take his staff from his restaurant to a place where he was going to butcher a goat and he spent all day going back and forth trying to build the courage. He had such a hard time, and after his very difficult experience he posted in front of his restaurant that no life would be taken and wasted and that if customers were not going to finish their food they had to take it. I started to ask myself if I could kill an animal to eat it and I know I can't, so why should I expect anyone else to have to do it for me. So I started eating differently and supplementing when needed. I respect and appreciate that you can, I also appreciate how difficult it must be for you after caring for them for weeks. Thank you for sharing!
Love your Tshirt! Thanks for answering those questions, it helped me a lot!
lolol that was the longest 2 Minute Tuesday Tip ever!!
I am enjoying your videos very much. Thanks for the info on the chickens.
We are raising red rangers. Same as the freedom, just a different hatchery. I agree about their temperment! I have a couple roosters that will peck my feet and the backs of my calves once in a while. Usually when I am later than usual w their food. But overall, we have 8breeds, 65 total chickens, and the rangers are the friendliest. We are actually keeping one of the roos for our egg flock bc he is so calm.
I agree with you, the freedom rangers seem to be heavier birds
Check out that 1870s homestead, they did unlimited feed on Their Cornish cross, they were averaging 7 to 8 pounds at 8weeks butcher date.
Thank you for the Q & A. I love how others said the chickens fulfilled their purpose of life. And I believe God made everything, and he put some of the animals on this planet for the purpose of feeding us. I love also that the vloggers I watch do the killing in a very humane way, so the animals don’t suffer. The whole process, from raising the chicks to becoming food, can be done in a very “loving” way, like another comment said, they had a wonderful life.
Beautiful birds.....Great job.
That's a lot of delicious chicken. What I want to know is -- How many different recipes do you have for chicken? 😉
You can send me all the gizzards and chicken liver. I love fried gizzards in gravy over dirty rice.
For us we do leave the chicken on ice for three days. Is what we notice is this makes them more tender. We have eaten a chicken the same day it was butchered and have noticed it can be tough. So that is why we do what we do.
I’ve enjoyed your meat chicken series. We to raised both freedom rangers and Cornish cross this year. I still like both breeds and will probably raise both next year again if we need the meat. Next year we’ll have two steers ready to put in the freezer so we’ll probably need the freezer space for them. Hopefully we’ll also have some wild game in the freezer as well this fall. Anyhow. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Hello Jason, I really enjoyed this video, and I am looking forward to watching more. I am planning on doing meat birds in the spring so this was very interesting and informative. Thank you so much for sharing. Have a Blessed Week **HUGS & PRAYERS** from Kelly and critters at Piney Haven Homestead.
My first ever meat chicks arrive mid may. I'm excited to try this.
I may need butcher help the first time but I'm hopeful
Love this. Great video!!
Really like your answer to number 8. Hard to explain this to people who buy everything from the grocery store.
Feather meal. You have to grind them up!
I would think feathers would make great compost enriched soil!
Maybe bury the feathers in the compost? - so there won't be blowing all over ;o)
This is what we do! They dont get anywhere except the compost.
We bury the feathers in our compost and we butcher around 30 chickens twice a year as well. We have more feathers blowing around from where the plucker was because we're not the best at picking up every last feather, lol.
Was literally just going to write this I've watched someone here on TH-cam burying their kitchen scraps/hair from hair cuts/and feathers in their garden for direct composting.
Fried blood with garlic or tomato and onions is outstanding
Looking forward to the taste test!
if i have been your neighbor, i would have taken the gizzards.... you can clean it thoroughly and cook them like beef steaks with plenty of garlic and onions... you can make chicken macaroni salad too
Nice video👏👏
I'm learning from you guys
Yes chicken feathers do great in compost if you can keep the dogs out of it.
Great video! So much information! Have a great day!😎🐓💕
Since we also raised chickens a number of years ago, I'll wager that you'll prefer the Freedom Ranger's taste and texture. Those birds have a more varied diet with plenty of greens. I prefer the dark meat on a bird... the white of the FR's should have a 'firmer/moister' texture, more like the dark meat. Am looking forward to your taste test comparison.
Awesome video, I just butchered chickens over the weekend and documented how I use everything. I really enjoy your channel, keep up the good work!
awesome!
I saw, great job on them!
Good job Jason! I'm a bit baffled though. We did a side by side trial of FR and CC. We have the FR 3 extra weeks and they were still 2 pounds less than the CC, at 4-5 pounds each. We have done CC only since then and at 8 weeks they are averaging 6.5 pounds. We tractor and ration food (12on/12off) with them too.
Due to Newcastles in CA we can't get birds shipped in. We ate NOT in quarantine area but birds would be shipped to that majn post office so NO CHICKS.Lucky me.... I hapoened to have a pair of rangers! Yep running incubator constantly. Now to wait for pullets to start laying! Self suffiency - next level!!! Doesn't do much for fast freezee filling but a few at a time works too. Next to learn to can meat!!!
Good Q and A. When you compost feathers, I'm pretty sure that you mix it into the regular compost heap and they break down. I would think you would do it with the hot compost method.
Cost per pound, the Cornish cross would probably be the better bird. Is one breed more hardy than the other? I do like seeing the freedom ranger more so than the Cornish cross. They are more appealing overall to me.
Great information! Thanks for sharing!
I thought I saw Justin Rhodes feed the guts to his other chickens. They will eat it. Also, I composted the feathers once, and it worked very well.
Good little q&a video!
Thank u for sharing, love ur family
We did 25 Cornish crosses and largest was 7.5 lbs and lowest was 5.5 arvarage was 6.5
awesome!
No question...😁😁😁😁👍👍
great job guys.
GOOD SHOW THANK YOU !!!
Great video as always 🌞🌞
Great video .. I would like to know how much it cost to raise them ? Maybe in another video ;)
I vote for Freedom Rangers and hope you try other breeds in the future. From what I understand (which is not always correct), 95% of chicken from store is Cornish Cross. (98% of corn products we eat are Roundup ready). Diversify. I can say more. I can do more, but with the situation I am back in SoCal OC. Just glad it is cooler than you old stomping grounds. Our coolest summer yet.
Great video. Blessings
Good info, as usual, your recaps of a project are very informative. Must be hard to pick just one meat bird, curiosity would get me. To try some heirloom breed would seem fun, God bless your efforts!
Very informative. Thanks for taking us through a Q&A and sharing your experience. It helps, especially if you are deciding on chickens to raise. You can read and research all day but when it comes down to it, field experience from someone you can trust, well, nothing like it. So, one question. What was the price per pound to raise? Or did you track that?
Be safe, be good, God bless
Mister Jason loves video as always but one more question where's the golf course
😁😁🤗🤗⛳ take care of Jason say hello Lorraine for me.
Great video. How long will this latest number of butchered chickens last for your family? Do you have a set amount of chicken you eat per week?
I was not saying that they wern't big enough they are . I was just telling you what the Rhodes found out. I am with you on the freedom rangers..
Excellent chicken haul. I'm with you I like the freedom rangers better. The Cornish X are good for fryers, but the freedom rangers I think are better for all-purpose. I've never let Cornish X go 12 weeks how much did they weigh? And wow having too many chickens for my freezer would be a problem I wouldn't mind having.
Thanks for sharing your homestead with us,
Jimmy