Chickens are able to find food by themselves from a very early age, however, unless their feathers are fully grown, they are not really ready to be outside all day, unless there is a heated lamp they can sit by.
If the chickens are Broilers (bred for the table) they will be fast growing and ready to kill atabout six to eight weeks. You will find that cockrells grow faster than poulets. Regards Chook Butcher.
in your toilet, in your backyard, and in your bedroom ready to kill you.
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if their full grown they are ready.
Cattle that are ready for slaughter. They are also called finisher cattle or fats.
Stockers are beef calves that are weaned and ready for the feedlot, where they will be fed a high protein energy diet until they are ready for slaughter.
Not in North America. Chickens used for serving are delivered by food service companies ready to cook. In other parts of the world some chickens are butchered as needed.
They don't, steroids are banned from chickens and all other animals in North America and Europe. Random testing is done regularly and if an animal tests positive for growth hormone or steroids the farm is shut down, fined and the owners can go to jail.
One can find instruction on how to build a chicken house from the following sources: Backyard Chickens, Tractor Supply Company, Country Living, Wikihow, Instructables, Brlaub, The Ready Store, Barn Geek, Houzz, Mother Earth News.
Finisher cattle are range-raised, i.e. - grass fed, yearling or older beef cattle that are ready to be "finished" on grain to increase marbling prior to slaughter.
You can put them together right when the chicks are old enough to go in the coop. They will meet the other chickens when they are ready.