>>2259054They eat a fellow chicken if that chicken has an open wound. The peck at the color red. The injured hen will get pecked, and pecked. Then itll die of truama or infection and theyll eat the corpse.
Grow most of you meat birds in the summer end butcher and preserve them.
The standard industrial bird the cornish cross is ready in 7 weeks. A bird that can handle the woods lifestyle would probably take a few more months. For eggs it takes them a yearish to start laying. So youll want to keep them alive over the winter. Theyll not lay many eggs in the winter unless you add lighting to the coop to trick them into thinking its the summer. Replacing them every 3ish years. As theyll slow down egg production.
