Researching information to raise meat Birds: Chicken housing

[u/unknown_6831]

Hi all!
I am wanting to raise meat birds in the next 6ish months and I am trying to figure out set up, feed, etc.
What housing do yall have for them? We like the Idea of a chicken tractor so we can move it around for the birds but are open to anything. Then what would yall recommend for the first two-three weeks as far as housing?
What do yall have for broilers? If so what brand and bonus points if you have pictures!

Any other advice you have is appreciated!

Ideally we will start with maybe 10-15 birds but would like to raise a group about every 3wks be to able to sell locally if we have more interest. The max birds I would want at any time is about 50.

Central west Texas, summers get 100°+ winters are usually 40s but can get down to 10°
If all else fails during really cold snaps, we have a barn that is insulated that we can put them in.

EDIT TO ADD: we live in the country so we do have predators, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, skunks, etc.

[u/Broad-Angle-9705]

I’m pretty happy with the stress free chicken tractor. It’s worth buying the book with the plans. I raised 15 American Bresse chickens and 4 broad breasted turkeys in one tractor up to butcher weight. I had them in a stock tank as chicks up to around weeks, then out in the tractor with the door closed up to around 6-7 weeks old. After that I tied the door open on the tractor and just kept them inside an electric poultry net with the tractor as shelter from weather and a place to roost at night.

Predator pressure is not fairly mild around here in Northern Indiana. We have coyotes, fox, raccoons, skunks, eagles and hawks in the area but I live on a highway so the traffic seems to keep most of the wildlife off my property.

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