Pastured Poultry: There are several ways to grow pastured poultry. We buy
the day old hybrid varieties, brood them for 3 weeks on grain with kelp,
probiotic, and OG minerals, then they go on pasture for 5 weeks. We dress
them at 8 weeks with dressed weights running about 5.5 pounds. They are big
healthy birds with clean livers. At 9-10 weeks, they dress out to about 8
pounds. Our turkeys dressed out (this weekend) to 12-18 pounds at 14 weeks
age, same management as the chickens. In our experience, the population
density in the pens has the biggest impact on growth rate (within a specific
poultry strain).
Fat in Meat: Rabbit is supposed to be the lowest fat meat available from a
land animal. Rabbits are also highly productive on low inputs. Rabbit
fryers butcher at 8 weeks of age, too. But if you agree with Sally Fallon,
the total fat is unimportant. Or I should say, it isn't the nemesis it is
made out to be, and is actually vital to human health. Against my 17 years
as a vegetarian, I tend to agree.
Grace to you.
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