Question: Please give full details to age a broiler for tenderness. Purina feeding strategies recommend finish feeding starting 33 days old. I feed unlimited amounts of Honor Show Chow 24/7. These are table meat birds and not for show. Please give me a complete feeding guide and finish feeding for broiler chickens.
Answer: Ron,
If you are raising broiler for meat consumption only, you will be fine with feeding the Honor Show Chow Broiler Complete from start to finish. If you wanted to reduce feed cost some, you may consider Purinas Sun Fresh Recipe Flock Rasier Product. This product is a broiler type feed without the elevated level of nutrients that are demanded by the Show Broiler.
When processing your birds, I recommend that once you have a wog (whole bird that has been dressed and is in a whole bird carcass), ice pack those birds in a cooler of ice bath for approximately an hour before you begin to cut/debone/fillet the carcass into parts and pieces. This will insure the tenderness remains in the parts because the muscle will have had time to relax and stop contracting from the events of killing and processing.
Hopefully this provides you what you need. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact me.
Take care!
Keith Staggs
Honor Show Chow - Ambassador
Market Poultry
Land O’Lakes Purina Feed
