Broilers

Breed

We currently raise the "Cornish Rock" broiler. The advantages of these birds are that they grow very quickly and their feed to meat conversion is very high. We process our birds around 8 weeks of age. That's a fast-growing chicken!

Shelters

The birds will be housed in two different shelters during their lives. The first two to three weeks, the birds need a warm, dry and secure place to grow out their feathers. We keep them inside the brooder to keep them dry and use a heat lamp to keep them warm. Once they have grown out their feathers, they are moved outside into one of the pasture shelters. These shelters are moved daily to fresh pasture. We keep about 75 birds in each shelter. Letting the birds live outside allows them to express themselves as chickens would in nature, scratching in the ground looking for bugs and eating forage.