Build Your Own Chicken

Many of us in the homestead movement have realized that our dependence upon commercial hatcheries for our broiler chicks is a weakness in our sustainable food chain. As our technocrat controlled government continues to wage asymmetric warfare against the citizenry, we will undoubtedly see more poultry facilities burned and more chickens destroyed due the government’s ongoing bioweapons programs. Our best defense against the attacks on our food system is to decentralize it by breeding, raising, and processing our own livestock and to resist any attempts to stop us from doing so. The most popular broiler raised by farmers, small and large, is the Cornish Rock; also known as the Cornish Cross. This hybrid has been refined over the decades to meet the needs of the poultry industry. Given that it is a hybrid, it does not lend itself to breeding a Cornish Rock rooster to a Cornish Rock hen to…

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Hatching Chicken Eggs

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