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STOP BUYING CHICKEN

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YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY CHICKEN ANYMORE. I think 90ish Percent of you reading this could ABSOLUTELY raise your own meat chickens, and many of you could raise enough to stop buying chicken form the grocery store. For the last decade my family has not needed to purchase meat from the supermarket. Between hunting, fishing, […]

Best Meat Chickens for Making Money

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If your goal is to make money raising meat chickens, then you will need to buy the right breed of chickens for what your customers want. So what are customers looking for when purchasing pastured poultry?   Meat chickens come in different shapes and sizes. Cornish Cross (cornish x) chickens are generally the meat breed […]

Raising Meat Chickens: The Gateway Animal to Raising Your Own Meat

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Meat Chickens are a great gateway animal into raising your own meat and becoming, overall, more sustainable. On this episode of Homesteady, we revisit chicken ownership. As we examine homestead chickens closer, we have to wonder: are chickens a “gateway animal?” Does buying chickens lead to more chickens, then to pigs, goats, sheep, and even […]