broiler chickens

Good day I have broiler chicks and would like to know what is the best way to ensure that the temperature stays right for them without spending too much money?

So ... I am wanting to switch to meat birds. I would like to be able to kill one per week or so. I have heard great things about Ideal in Cameron, Texas, and that's the vendor I am leaning towards, with either their black or red broilers. I am avoiding the Cornish varieties because they are not...

Hi, I'm wanting to get into breeding chickens, but I've never tried anything outside of casually letting by broodies hatch whatever eggs they found. I can order some American white Bresse chicks, but kind of want to try crossing them with something that grows bigger. I'm looking to keep the...

I know that this will be a lot, but I really need help with this. I have a pet broiler chicken (1 year and 10 months old) experiencing severe respiratory problems, likely due to a fungal infection, possibly candidiasis. This infection has affected multiple areas, including his comb (his comb...

Hi Guys - I live in the Midwest. My Cornish cross broilers are now 2 weeks old. They are quickly outgrowing the brooders that I have them in my basement and I gotta get them outside. Temps are 70's this week with a low of mid 60's at night. They have a Salatin style coop with plastic on 3 sides...

Ahhh!! This is mostly just a complaint but we are new to chickens and to Alaska so I couldn’t tell you if this is an Alaskan thing or a chicken thing (so maybe someone else can tell me) but within the last two weeks, all the chicken feed has been disappearing from stores and I didn’t think...

I'm planning on getting 8-10 Red Rangers next year and I'd like to hear other people's experiences with them. I've been reading a lot online about them but to me it feels better hearing other people's experiences on here. My plan is to keep 2 for my family and sell the rest after butcher as this...

Hello everyone. I usually raise a few broilers every couple months for meat and have been experiencing roughly 5% losses as chicks which is normal from what I've read. Recently the losses have been getting greater and greater, sometimes as much as 40% and it happens when the chicks are 3+ weeks...

Good greetings to you all. I want to stir up a contradictory topic.To get started ,broiler chickens are fleshier than backyard chickens although they on average take a mere 6 weeks to mature.In contrast to backyard chickens can take more than 12 weeks to mature and still may not be as fleshy as...

Hi! Long story short, I've got a couple of cornish broiler chicks that need some TLC. Right now they are about a week old. I work for a place that sells chicks and these 2 haven't been doing well when mixed with the main population, so they've been hanging out with me in the back of the...

hi there!! I have had chickens as egg producers for many, many years. My husband and I just purchased our first dozen of Cornish cross broilers eggs that are currently hatching as we speak! I’m very interested in attempting to breed my own. Many people in my town butcher regular egg layers and...

I have 12 broiler chicks I desperately need to get rid of. They were supposed to be a replacement batch for my last order in which all of the birds were DOA except for 3 chicks, but I thought I had cancelled it. Take them for 1$ each! (Sent from Hoover hatchery)

We're butchering our 2 'Slow white broiler' hens tomorrow and I'm very excited about the meat they will provide. First time raising this type of chicken as we've raised the terrible CornishX ones before. These slow white broilers were bought as chicks in early summer so they've had a wonderful...

I bought broilers along with my egg chickens just to see if the amount of time and feed was worth growing my own food. Well it's been about 4 months now and they look no bigger than a 4 week old broiler. I'm not sure what happened along the way that caused this but at this point I'm not sure...

Please read this completely I'm currently raising 5 Broilers and I've been giving them all that they're supposed to eat but one of them constantly needs it's bum wiped clean as it gets poopy butt. None of the others have this problem. Is there anything wrong with it? What should I do? They...

I took our five 1wk old broilers outside as it was nice out. I had to put them in the older hens' coop yard as we're currently trying to fix up the smaller coop. Luckily the older hens are out free ranging like always and have already laid all their eggs for today. I was wondering what else I...

I have two broiler hens only a couple of months old, just past point of lay. One of them has suddenly got paralysed legs, she can move everything else. She just can’t move her legs at all including supporting her own weight when held. As a result she has become very docile and where she used to...

Can I feed my broilers the same start/grower I use to feed my layers? It's blue seal multi-flock and has a protein content of 22%. I know I should feed my layers broiler food, but this seems like it would work... thoughts and insights needed. Thank you.

I'm new to chickens and my cornish roasters are very ready to get outside. I've already got the coop built, but i'm not sure what to fill it with (aside from the dirt it's setting on). There seems to be quite the division between straw vs pine shavings/chips vs hay..and since they're only going...

Hello! I just wanted to bounce some ideas off of you all. I know chickens LOVE cattle and pig poop, and though it seems disgusting, it's actually pretty good for them, and creates less feed waste, and helps break up the actual livestock waste as they're scratching it around. Seems like a win...