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I would check around the area or with extension service to see if there are any cases of blackhead in the area.

If you raise turkeys and chickens together you must be aware of blackhead and if you have it in your area. Are you on heavy soil or sand? Do you have earthworms on your property? The more worms the more the chances of blackhead.

The turkeys and chickens get along well together. Even the guineas are not overly mean. I occasional have to throw things at them though.

They are one bog flock. kind of. The turkeys hang out together during the day. Some hens go into the chicken coop at night. The roosters and Tom are in the same pecking order. The hens are not really

If you want to try a crossbreed that is more meaty than the Cornish, try to get ahold of some white Chanticlers and breed them to the rangers or rainbows. I am going to try that in the next couple years. I only own Partridge Chanticler now, but they are a huge fast growing bird. Mine are...

You will get something at least for f1, it will be a start. I doubt you would find anything that crossed by itself to a regular LF Cornish will give you something like I have. I started with the commercial Cornish cross and changed the bird. I made it less of a eating machine, then added in...

You might want to try your own crossbreed, say a Cornish with a rainbow or Jersey Giant to giant and still have several years worth of breeding stock. Some of us have done some (if I say so myself) near amazing things using CX as a base and crossing from there. There is no reason a good...

But they are also a sweet bird that likes to follow you around...well me, I doubt anything other than the FBI likes to follow you... The bird in the picture is not a LF Cornish. the build is wrong. The distance between the legs and leading edge of the breast is too great, the breast is...

Yep, the forces of evil are constantly trying to force too much protein and too much feed on these poor little guys.

There is no reason it should not work, I have done both with mine, lower protein and restrict feed at the same time. That's how Bert Jr was raised.

Carrie restrict the feed, lower the protein and let the chick run free when you can and that chick will become your favorite bird! I promise you!

This is true, after they mature their metabolism slows and the urge to eat subsides. They need to have a distraction to keep them busy. They are like me if bored they eat. When I fed mine like the "feed experts" instruct I had heart attacks, legs problems, birds that just laid in their own...

Four years of raising them like that, with no leg problems and them living up to two years reaching over 25 pounds kind of proves me right,,,go to that thread and see the amazing things we are doing to these birds I raise Mine on around 15 % and they do wonders,,, they will never live 4 or 5...

It is a Cornish cross, that is where are agreement ends. Do not let him eat more than 20 minutes 2x a day. Lower the protein, and get him outside as soon as you can. He will get bigger and live longer. Here is an award winning article on raising them...