Deciding Which Meat Birds To Raise And Why
Over the winter of 2014-15 I started seeing Joel Salatin videos on YouTube as suggested videos to watch. If you haven't heard of him I would now suggest you do a search on him. He made it seem so easy to raise a batch of broiler chickens and turkeys (meat birds). Really everything I seen that he raises seems so simple at least using his method. The best part is it's all natural. No hormones or antibiotics. Animals living naturally like it used to be. I personally think natural food is what we should all be eating. There is to much crap added to our food today. So this triggered a interest and before I knew it I was knee deep in broiler chicken research. First I wanted to compare them to other meat birds. So I contacted a few people that had experience with different varieties of meat birds to get my answers. The first thing I was told is the Cornish Cross (CC) does NOT forage on the grass/bugs. They are very lazy and pretty much stay at the feeder all day. Then I had other