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Looks like a healthy batch of baby dinos.

I feel for you and I've made plenty of my own embarrassing mistakes.

You did awesome! You should feel great! I have hopes of doing something similar myself. Be sure to let us know how the flavor is.

Looks like they're turning into couch potatoes. :) Still they look clean and comfortable, totally better than the ones huge poultry barns on commercial farms. I'm curious now how the flavor will be.

I could watch them run forever.

That is so funny! Look at those chooks run!

OMG please do! I'd love to see them. And thanks as always for the reporting!

Those legs and feet... how could we have ever missed that they are little dinosaurs? They seem healthy and happy. Do the cockerels act like cockerels yet? Aggression or crowing?

Very interesting reading. I'm not likely to be able to run such a tightly managed brooder but knowing the effects of the possible variables is good to know. Given how finely tuned the cornish x are, I wonder if that makes the variables have a bigger effect on them than heritage meat birds...

ScarletinaVixen is raising Ideal Black Broilers and it sounds like her Broilers are doing well too. Ideal hatchery is a good distance away so I wonder if I'd have trouble shipping. Might be worth the risk.

That made me laugh out loud! Waddling lightning bolts. :wee As far as feed conversion goes, I understand the importance but that won't matter when I try my cornish crosses. I'll just be raising them for our own use and to know our food had as good a life as I could manage. That's why your...

Looks like they're scratching and exploring like regular chicks. Do you have any trouble gathering them up to get them back to the brooder?

I love the big open play area! Your babies look so happy!

Looking good to me. In fact they are cute as heck!

Once I get closer to starting a broiler coop I'll follow every thread. At my age if I try to stuff too much into my head there won't be much left by the time I need to use it. :old

Thank you so much for this thread! I plan to give the Cornish X a try once the new place is up and running so I'm very interested in your reports. Those are terrible but while I still get them from time to time, (I swear by drinking a lot of water) they are pretty mild compared with the first...