To see a cost breakdown check out this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJp5lMOdc9ynj9I.html and this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYx_1rJqfqevgbQ.html. (CHICKEN MATH!!)

The big advantage of the slow growing breeds is that they actually taste of chicken.

Last year we raised 3 turkeys as our first time raising meat, and loved it. This year, we're doing 6 turkeys and 25 chickens! I went with heritage dual purpose (Delawares, Orpingtons, and a few Brahma) in the hopes of a self-sustaining flock.

Thanks for all the free advice, you were a large inspiration for my family. our processed our first set of 20 birds and froze them as whole chickens. The next set of 20 my wife cut and packaged by parts- wings, breast, thigh, tenders, etc. We liked this method because it saved lots of freezer space and then we could have wing night, breast, etc. We also saved all the carcasses and made some amazing broth.

Jason has the best simplest way to be self sufficient. Cheers Buddy

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Love ya'll

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

It’s my first time with meat chickens… I’ve had my freedom rangers 6 days now and they stole my heart!!! They are soooo sweet💚💚💚 I adore them and they will be heartbreakers!!

I did this for some home school neighbors kids start to finish. We loved it!!

Thank you both for all you do. My wife and I have been following you guys for a few months now and you have been a HUGE inspiration to us to get moving on our own homestead. I'm a California native who now resides in an Upstate NY farm area and we are looking for land now. Just wanted to give you a quick note of gratitude for all you guys are doing and inspiring us as well as so many others here!! Much love! Your "California" friends in NY!

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

This is perfect timing for us; our first batch of 25 meat chickens arrive in two weeks. Thank you for the informative episode.

I appreciate you doing the planning math, offering solutions for anyone's situation. -Very encouraging.

Jason! Thanks for making this video. We have layers we are raising right now, but hope to raise freedom rangers next year here in AZ! 🌵 😃👍

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

I only want to raise 5 chickens, I am Brazilian and I married an American and I miss raising chickens, so I come to watch videos about planning to make a house for them and what food you give them, because in Brazil it is very different, I loved your videos

Got my first meat birds last week got 6 Cornish and 6 rangers. Can wait

Wish i could like this video 10 times over. Great info. Thank you!

Wow, this is a great fact filled, no fluff video on exactly what I needed to know. I had only ever thought about laying hens...and didn't get any as I travel a lot, but this is an amazing small window of time to end up with so much chicken in the freezer! I have been becoming more concerned every day, at what ends up in the pan after and during cooking bought meat, here in the EU. So, it's get info Mary... and start. My friends also accidentally mentioned they tried raising geese and chickens the past 2 years, and are very happy with the results. They keep adding chickens every few weeks from March thru April and slaughter in July to end August. She is a school teacher so gets the heavy work taken care of in school holidays...a little at a time...and they live on a house block in the city.

Cornish cross will be here next week! I am so excited, gonna be like Christmas morning. Thanks for making this video Jason!

Succinct. Covers all they key points. Highly encourage anyone who is raising meat chickens to watch this as a great and accurate overview/summary video in addition to watching the longer classic videos. Nice job!

Thank you for this video. We are building our chicken and goat pen this week. Something you said was so crucial and something I’ve not heard before ......you’ll be eating the birds before they lay eggs!!!! I didn’t even realize that. We made plans to include nesting boxes for our meat birds. We can scrap that idea. They won’t need them. It’s those simple things that you think people already know that really help us out.

What a wholesome video. Really made it feel like this is possible and doesn’t need to be super intimidating! Just got my first laying hens and looking forward to getting some meat birds this year as well!

Good editing, showing the highlights of chicken raising for a first timer. A lot of people are thinking about getting egg layers for the first time this year.

Good vid, we have egglayers but will be moving to an acre soon so we'll be adding more eggers and will start broilers after I get grass to grow on the plot

This was a very encouraging video. Thank you for making it so simple to understand.

@SowtheLand

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Im going to embark on meat birds... thanks for the great info! You have a new subscriber

Great Vid. We are just about to jump in to raising chickens

Thanks for a nice, simple, straightforward explanation. We're restricted to 11 birds in our town but I guess our freezer is barely that large anyway.

How nice. I like my birds too be 3-4 pounds.

This is exactly what I needed to watch. Newbie to country living and planning on raising chickens. I have no sweet clue what I am doing. Thank you for being so honest about butchering not being easy. I can't imagine that it will be fun but it will help myself and hopefully my kids really appreciate where our food comes from. ✌❤

Thanks! I should be getting my first flock of Rangers next week. I only ever raised layers before, you helped inspire me to try meat birds this year.

You gotta get in touch with BlueGabe down in florida and go out fishing with him. Y'all are almost twins

Anyone else have city codes against poultry in town? : ( Reminds me of Joe Salatin's t-shirt everything I want to do is illegal, lol.

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

if I would have known this info 10 years ago. Yes, I would be doing this in my city backyard. :)

@xl_psylocke_lx

4 жыл бұрын

I'm only allowed a max of 10 chickens in my area. Which is dumb because I have 2 acres.

Mentioned how you invited your community to be part is what I liked the most. Have you done a butcher video yet?

@SowtheLand

2 жыл бұрын

yes, we have a detailed online course on the subject. thanks. sowtheland.com/member-area

A plucker machine is a must have. ❤️🌱🐓. Thanks. Great video.

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

It really is!

Thank you Jason, on an informative video. We are not zoned for livestock. I'm on the HOA board and have to abide by the CC&R. What I DO have are two gardens that are the size of twin beds. They are the wood frames from them. With the Covid virus we are social distancing and are using our alone time, planting and cleaning up our winter garden. Our desert California weather has been odd this spring. We've had rain and cool temps. So, today I planted from transplants, black beauty zucchini, a yellow bell pepper and lunch box peppers. From them I'll make hot pepper jam. Jalapinos cost next to nothing here so I decided to not plant them. Instead I have 6 Chicago Pickling cucumbers I started from seed. They will be PICKLES! Yum! Going to check out your show note video on canning. 🌵🌵Coming atcha from Palm Springs CA🌵🌵

This was a great video. Well explained. I raised the Cornish meat birds. I would get 50 every year. I learn that if you give them the grower some of them will have leg problems and some of them will explode... their hearts. It happens. So the next year I learned to cut the grower food with some other grains and that seemed to help to reduce the intensity of their growth. My chickens were really big. Now, for the first time, twenty-plus years later, I have for the first time hatched my own eggs. These Rhode Island Reds will be for meat birds. I only have eight that hatched. This will be an interesting experience to see how they do as a meat birds. I'm expecting to butcher at 12 weeks.

I rescued a Rudd Ranger chick from Royal King along with buying 3 Blue Andalusian's and 2 Sapphire Gems. I have a SERIOUS question!!! What kind of feed to I give my Rudd Ranger once she's of age, FYI I have NO intentions on slaughtering her and don't want her becoming "slaughter weight".... I have no clue what to buy her but I know I want her food to be organic though. So hopefully you or someone can please tell me what to buy! Thank you!

Great video! Thanks for the clear cut info!

Great information. I'm really interested in doing this. The part that concerns me I'd butchering. I don't know if I am confident enough to do it. I'm working alone. Do you think it'd reasonable to do 10 birds myself in one day? Thanks for sharing

Omg like always so informative 💪👍

Jason, Lorraine & Penelope- really enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. It’s really a joy watching you all work together and the fun you have doing it.

Thanks Jason. This was helpful. We are getting meat birds (Red Rangers) for the first time this weekend.

wish to have this lifestyle

This was so helpful!! Thank you so much

No backyard :/ So many homesteaders seem to be a bit jaded and don't realize not everyone has farmland.. Thanks for pumpin out videos, though!

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

Not jaded. I do realize that. Coming from the city If I new what I know now about raising meat chickens. I would be raising them in my city backyard.

@Bunjamin27

4 жыл бұрын

@@SowtheLand - "I would be raising them in my city backyard." Yeah. Many (most?) homes in the CITY don't have a backyard (and many that do legally prohibit you from raising chickens). And, as you just demonstrated, many homesteaders seem to forget that not everyone lives on a farm/has access to farmland.. which was kinda my point..

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

I know these videos are not for everybody. if anything it's some good healthy entertainment 😃

@Bunjamin27

4 жыл бұрын

@@SowtheLand - I didn't say the videos weren't for everyone? Just seems like many homesteaders quickly seem to completely forget not everyone lives on a farm/has access to farmland. It's kind of intriguing..

@dugnantz6140

4 жыл бұрын

ThrobbinHood I raised 10 pet chickens on 1/4 acre in the middle of charlotte nc. Just so happened that something killed all of them on the same Saturday 😉. You may have to work around the rules but it can be done ✌🏻

Awesome video, Jason! Concise and very thorough!

This was the best walk through video on meat chickens I’ve seen!

Hi...... Jason, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🌱🎥👍👍👍

Recommended video by youtube to me knowing that I’m planning to make this happen this coming mid spring here in Ontario. Cheers Jason!

Just received our first meat birds Tuesday 3/24, really happy with McMurray hatchery really nice people and good healthy birds. Did almost have a heart attack when I called the main post office and they said the carrier had picked them up to deliver to our residence and we were working so wouldn'tbe home when they arrived, it was 38f with feel of 31f so I had to ask them to call the carrier and have her leave them at the local office.

Thanks for the info on meat raised chickens! Much❤Love & 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻God Bless😘

Good job, you are taking a journey and teaching us as you go. Thank you.

Thank you. We didn't realize there was a big difference between the Freedom Rangers and the Cornish Crosses. This year we were not going to give it a try but now thinking with these tips it is possible again.

I just wanted to say thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with me. I found it very helpful. I’m looking forward to raising my first 25 chickens. I’m also looking forward to your future videos on how I should build a chicken coop for egg laying chickens. Believe it or not I’m thinking about getting two beef cows. I don’t know if you have any experience with . I look forward to your next video.

👍👍 love these collabs... Have a good night..

Great video Jason, and thank's for the links. You and your family stay safe. Enjoy The Day 🤗🤗

I like your chicken coop with the wheels I've never seen one before. I'd want one like that My friend has chickens band thinking about keeping them. Awesome Video thanks for the information very helpful.

Great video. Just need to set up a wheel system on the tractor we built yesterday. Chicks will be here in a couple of days. Do you have problems with weasels getting into the tractors?

Raised several flocks of layers or dual purpose breeds over the last 10 years, but never any meat birds. This year we are trying both Cornish cross and red rangers. We bought 25 each. Along with our dual purpose breeds we’ll have around 100 or so. Thanks for the info.

Sorry to be late to seeing this but have a Question in regards to the butchering. After all is done, before you put them into bags, Do you put them in a cooler for a few days? So many confusing things out there. I just want to make sure to do it right the first time. Thanks if you answer my question. God bless! Thanks for sharing. :)

This is great info! If anyone is wondering, it takes just a couple of days and the grass is greener and fuller than it was before.

Thank you for all of this things 🙏🏼😊 we wait alot of videos 🙏🏼

Great step by step video on the meat birds. 💖

Well done and hurrah. Two questions: do you give free access to grit and oyster shell? Joe Salatan spoke about a feed supplement (60lb per ton) have you ever used that? Again, many thanks!

You guys are awesome (living the dream) thanks for sharing in the collaboration

Great video and info!!

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I wanna get freedom rangers :) this year we are raising buff brahma and jersey giants for meat .

Just saying if we raise the birds what would it take to have Jason and Fam load up the truck and come over to help with the processing on kill day??? Asking for a friend 😉😉😉

Nice informative video 😊😊😊

Thanks Jason! What’s fun and informative video!

Very good vid, Jason! Straight to the point with perfect info!!

Great video & explained so well- just wish I had the space to grow or keep chickens but only have a backyard. Cheers Denise

Thanks so much for this awesome video that answered a lot of my questions about raising meat chickens!!

Great vedio! Enjoy your chanel so much. Thanks for sharing.

This was a great video packed full of awesome information! Thank you and God bless

Good one Jason 👍

very informative..good eating...stay healthy

I'm building the pen from Chicken Run

Awesome, something for us to think about! Very helpful information!

Can the buff chicken hatch turkey eggs

Thanks.

@SowtheLand

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

This is the best video! We have a very small yard and wonder if we can at least do 5-10 chickens to start.

@swvafarmer

3 жыл бұрын

Go for it! The key is keeping them moved onto fresh grass daily

Thanks a lot

How do you keep, your chicken from getting freezer burnt?

Now is the 8weeks from day one or 8 weeks after the initial 3 weeks in doors

Great video you are so encouraging

This is an awesome video! If you were to sell meat birds, what price do you think they could sell for?

Great video keep up the great content I can't wait until I get my meat chickens👍👍❤❤😁😁

This was a really great breakdown! And video!

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You are a wonderful family and I appreciate you all. God Bless You.

What kind of feed you made? I'M from the Philippines I am always watching your blog

were you buy the little chicken

Give Amy Fewell a plug, her book on chickens is awesome, she remove a lot of mystery

Great video! Love your feeder :-)

Thank you so much your videos are really good I would like a drawing of your chicken house I want to build one in malawi

WOW 👍❣️ Great video. Love it👌

Great video! Concise but exactly the information I’m looking for :)

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

So glad!

Great video !! Thanks for sharing

I am confused. When you say fast growing do you mean that they both get to be the same size but FR takes longer than the CC or is one actually bigger than the other when fully (not butchered size) grown.

great info as usual..thanks for sharing

@SowtheLand

4 жыл бұрын

thanks Sharon for all the great comments you give us. Hope you are well.

Great job!