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This is our second batch of meat birds this summer, and will be the last until the spring. A couple months ago we had 50, but we were splitting it with another family in our community, we raised them, they paid for the chicks and half the food, and of course we split the meat.
It's already a tonne less work having 25 instead of 50. I don't have to fill the water and food so often, and they take up less room in our living room which they will be living in for 2 weeks as I explained in the above video. Food security and shutting down factory farms are the main reasons we choose to grow and process our own meat. We also grow egg laying chickens, and the ones that turn out to be roosters, we eat as well. We have 36 egg chicks outside right now, and half of those will feed our family through the winter.