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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Paul and Caroline on March 09, 2020, 03:48:30 pm

Title: Sourcing meat chickens - where do you guys get them?
Post by: Paul and Caroline on March 09, 2020, 03:48:30 pm

Hi

We are looking to raise our own chickens for the table and we are having serious difficulty sourcing them. It doesn't help that we are tucked away in deepest SW Scotland with no known local suppliers/breeders.

One option for us would be to go down the hatching eggs route, although we have never hatched eggs in the past.

where do those of you that raise table birds get your stock?

Do we go for the chicken..... or the egg??!?!?

Title: Re: Sourcing meat chickens - where do you guys get them?
Post by: Rosemary on March 09, 2020, 05:28:37 pm

Craigievern Poultry

Title: Re: Sourcing meat chickens - where do you guys get them?
Post by: Paul and Caroline on March 10, 2020, 09:05:51 am

Quote from: Rosemary on March 09, 2020, 05:28:37 pm

Craigievern Poultry

Thanks Rosemary but that is one of the issues for me in that their nearest delivery point to me gives me a 200+ mile round trip so was hoping someone might know of somewhere closer......

Title: Re: Sourcing meat chickens - where do you guys get them?
Post by: Polyanya on March 10, 2020, 08:17:41 pm

I'm in a similar situation to you as I live on an island and delivery of day olds is around 50 chicks, which is just too many I wouldn't have enough room for them.
Hatching isn't too difficult and can be really addictive - Craigievern have some nice smallholder type table bird hatching eggs which mature longer and are far healthier than the ross/cobb types - hope to be getting some of them this year. You just need a decent incubator, we started off with the Brinsea octagon automatic which is a good beginners inci, oh and somewhere to put them when they hatch  :)