We acquired our meat birds today. We decided to get six of them for the first time around and in about five weeks they'll be ready to harvest. At that point I'll take them over to the fellow's house who sold them to me and he'll show me how to butcher them. There's something very satisfying about this whole process. Assuming all goes well I plan to have a constant rotation of meat chickens, so hopefully we'll be harvesting meat every five to six weeks.

Here's a shot of their home, a little chicken tractor that I rescued from a dumpster and promptly refurbished (those birds outside the tractor are some of our curious laying hens):


And here they are. One of them will be fried within six weeks, and the others will be frozen for future consumption: