{"id":3340,"date":"2017-08-05T21:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:35:57","slug":"meat-birds-fall-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Meat Birds Fall 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3340 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?attachment_id=3342'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_1-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cornish Rock Aug 2017\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3342'>\n\t\t\t\tCornish Rock Aug 2017\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?attachment_id=3343'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_2-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_2-150x113.jpg 150w, 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class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?attachment_id=3346'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_5-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_5-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_5-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?attachment_id=3347'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_6-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_6-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_6-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?attachment_id=3348'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_7-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_7-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_7-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MeatBirds_7-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We bought our Fall &#8217;17 meat birds from Tractor Supply this year. Twenty-five Cornish Rock chicks, about 5 days old. \u00a0Paid $1.75 with local pick-up, so no shipping. \u00a0 \u00a0In 8 weeks they&#8217;ll be about 5 lbs each and ready for the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks are upset by the fact that the majority of our animals are not pets. \u00a0 \u00a0They don&#8217;t realize that the fat and juicy birds in the bright red and white wrappers that you buy in the meat department at the food store are the same breed of birds that we raise.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson hatches thousands of these same birds, Cornish Rock, and &#8220;rents&#8221; them out to be raised on factory farms all over the mid West. \u00a0Tyson birds are housed 6,000 &#8211; 10,000 birds in a metal building with no windows, and huge fans to evacuate the horrendous ammonia smell from their waste. \u00a0 They have only a few square inches to move in, \u00a0and on a good day the farmer will lose only 150 to 200 chicks per building, from overcrowding. \u00a0 \u00a0This breed does not do well in crowded conditions. \u00a0 The birds never see the light of day. \u00a0They are pumped up with hormones \u00a0and salt water to make them &#8220;juicy&#8221;. \u00a0 Their miserable existence ends after 6-8 weeks, and only a minority of the farms are paid enough to cover the costs of raising the chicks and the costs of the losses from sickness.<\/p>\n<p>Our chicks on the other hand are a healthy, happy flock. \u00a0They only have one bad day, and they don&#8217;t remember that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpwddzWt9eI?list=PLIJigD8Y8Jwa3UW18ETEXiKteslx-Sg-g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Homesteading,<\/p>\n<p>T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought our Fall &#8217;17 meat birds from Tractor Supply this year. Twenty-five Cornish Rock chicks, about 5 days old. \u00a0Paid $1.75 with local pick-up, so no shipping. \u00a0 \u00a0In 8 weeks they&#8217;ll be about 5 lbs each and ready for the freezer. Some folks are upset by the fact that the majority of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meat Birds Fall 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Meat Birds Fall 2017","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,51],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barnyard","category-livestock","tag-chickens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-RS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}