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This reminds me of the old days when we would feed a cigarette to a horse or donkey to worm them. I don't know if it actually worked, but do remember one donkey that actually liked them and developed a biting problem trying to get to the pack he knew was in most everyone's pocket.

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How many eggs can they handle? Are they under lights to trick them into thinking it's time to sit? [Please forgive if you've already given the answers.]

Perhaps a little off subject, but a I live on a very limited budget and just purchasing some decent quality Cornish was a strain.on it................................ feeding an ever growing flock even more so. The thread in Meat Birds about fermented feed reminded me that I have raised 'scrub'...

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Wanting to wish everyone on this thread a..................................... [They're White Cornish; the ultimate heritage meat bird in my opinion, and my personal choice as a utility, self-sustaining meat breed.]

No stone throwing from me. IMO those commercial strains came from truly great breeders, and the old names like Cobb and Vantress bred heritage breeds at one time also. I hope that I'm done with commercial meat birds though. I get the same shaped body of a commercial bird with my Cornish, just...

Bob, your whites are too small, this is what a good white cockerel should look like at just under 6 months. as compared to a 7 month old Speckled Sussex. [You sure can't use a 5 gal bucket to weigh one in.] I'm joking. I have raised commercial white broilers [like that cockerel] to eat...

I use a Berkly digital fish scale and a big tote bag like you can find in the grocery store check out lane. The scale seems quite accurate and was not expensive at all.

Compared to what we buy now from a hatchery, the heritage breeds were much larger. I remember a time when hatcheries sold chicks that were more true to type; you could easily separate the chickens if you had ordered RIRs, NHs, and mixed in some of the 'new' production reds to boot. Leghorn...

Arielle, I weighed a couple of the White Cornish chicks today, one at just over 3 lbs and the other just over 4 lbs. I have not banded chicks as to hatch date, but lost the entire pen of chicks that were all over three weeks old and up on May 20, so these are my oldest I now have and hatched in...

I'll see if I can weigh a few juveniles tomorrow. I will not know their ages in weeks, just that they were hatched in April. If you look at the white pullet facing forward in that picture of the pen full, you can see she has plenty of breast meat to make an attractive table bird if I needed to...

I've yet to dress a pure bred out, I'm really just getting started, having purchased my first in 2010, and suffered some heavy losses due to inadequate fencing from predators, and what few extra I've produced were sold. The breeder of my DCs told me she had previously sold all those that she did...

I'm old but pretty new to breeding pure bred, heritage poultry. I have chosen to breed large fowl Cornish after first buying them to try as cross in my blue/green egg laying, dual purpose bird project. I followed the advice of an old timer and keep them on grass so as to keep live breeding...