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I've always assumed that those cornish "game" hens, were just CX that you were expected to butcher early. Kind of a gimmick, IMO. But I never have bought and am only speculating. I totally get this. I used to raise two batches of 20 to 25 CX every year. They had a large yard and limited...

I've done so on a very small scale, with no problems. But I don't know if the dynamics would change with larger numbers. One year, I put a couple of CX chicks that were on sale in with a brooder of 6 heritage chicks. They all got along fine and it actually worked out quite well. As they...

Most people on the forum, myself included, raise chickens for meat for reasons other than cost savings. As others have pointed out, you just don't have access to the cheap stock and feed to compete against standard supermarket chicken. The only possible exception would be if you 1) bought...