Meat birds

If you have found yourself thinking about bringing meat birds onto your homestead, consider choosing one of the heritage meat chicken breeds.

Want to raise your own meat? Here's an overview of how to raise your own meat chickens! Read about the good, the bad, and the ugly.

So, you want to put meat on the table yourself, but what are the best meat chickens to raise? I'll help you break them down!

Raising chickens for meat is a great way to increase your food independence. These meat chicken breeds are great for the small backyard homestead.

Step-by-step instructions for building a DIY chicken tractor for meat birds! This design is 10'x5'x2' which works for up to 25 birds.

When you're raising meat birds for profit it's important to make sure that you're actually making a profit and taking the necessary steps to make it worthwhile. Read on for my tips on raising meat birds for profit.

We just butchered our first ever group of meat chickens, the process overall went pretty good, but there are definitely things that we will change next time. Here are some common mistakes with meat chickens. This year we had 37 cornish crosses that we raised in a chicken tractor for 10 weeks. We ended up...Read More

Here's how we butcher & process meat birds on our homestead! There is nothing better than preparing a meal for your family table with homegrown meat that you've raised & processed right! These are birds raised with TLC! Happy, healthy birds! Come hang out with us today while we process our 30 meat birds & check out this awesome new feather plucker! #butcheringmeatbirds #howtobutchermeatchickens #chickenplucker

Follow along on meat chicken processing day. Raising and butchering our own chickens isn't the easiest way to get good meat, but it is healthy and safe.

So, who won the mighty battle between Cornish Cross vs. Red Rangers at our farm? Results are in and we're letting you know our thoughts on these meat birds.