Dark Cornish X WPR and Madison Project

These type of record keeping threads tend to peter out as it's a lot of work. There are ways to make the task easy. For example, weight out 10 lbs of feed at a time and keep a tally for weekly total. Same as you did, add up the 10's and weight last one for what was used. Weekly total is enough info. It's constantly changing on a daily basis as they grow until age 10 weeks or so where it will even out. Daily total may be nice at pre slaughter age around 14 weeks old. Also weights of birds is a lot of work if done often. As long as you know the feed intake the bird weight means little until 6 or 8 weeks. The largest birds at that age will be your fastest maturing and good selection base for future breeding. Tag those birds. Weekly or biweekly weight there after is good but enough would be weights week or two prior to intended slaughter and day of slaughter. Then butchered weight. Your graph will be an exponential curve, these are very predictable and easily and accurately interpolated with less data.
 
Feed consumption on day 3 was only 55 grams. Thats way low compared to day 1 and 2. I was told that the hotter the days the less feed they consume but still I think is kind of low. Ill see how it shows tomorrow.
 
These type of record keeping threads tend to peter out as it's a lot of work. There are ways to make the task easy. For example, weight out 10 lbs of feed at a time and keep a tally for weekly total. Same as you did, add up the 10's and weight last one for what was used. Weekly total is enough info. It's constantly changing on a daily basis as they grow until age 10 weeks or so where it will even out.  Daily total may be nice at pre slaughter age around 14 weeks old. Also weights of birds is a lot of work if done often. As long as you know the feed intake the bird weight means little until 6 or 8 weeks. The largest birds at that age will be your fastest maturing and good selection base for future breeding. Tag those birds. Weekly or biweekly weight there after is good but enough would be weights week or two prior to intended slaughter and day of slaughter. Then butchered weight. Your graph will be an exponential curve, these are very predictable and easily and accurately interpolated with less data.


Like always, thanks for your great info. I got thinking and yes ill probably do the tally of feed input on a weekly basis and same as the birds. I've been reading a thread you started on 2016 Sustainable Meat / Standard Bred Dual Purpose Bird Thread, a lot of great info plus great spreadsheet a member provided for us to use, I already have it on my mobile and checking it out on how to use it, it show weigh of birds as a group instead of individual weights and gives you an average weigh per bird, way much better than doing each one especially when they're older. Thanks again.
 
Week 4

Just weighed in my 9 F-1 DCx's of my White Plymouth Rock and Madisons. This are the results, and not what I expected on the Madisons. WPR cross is leaving the Madisons behind on both Males and Females. My spreadsheet says data as a group and not individual weight which tell a way different story and not an average weight per bird as the spreadsheet. Another thing is that the feed to meat conversion, this ain't working cuz I got them free ranging also.

Dark Cornish X White Plymouth Rock
(grams)
New Born. 2 wks. 4 wks
52. 165. 427 Male
51. 155. 400 Male
48. 153. 386 Male
48. 149. 372 Female
47. 147. 368 Female
46. 147. 356 Female

Dark Cornish X Madisons

42. 121. 341 Male
40. 119. 333 Male
35. 108. 291 Female

400
 
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Not yet, I've been looking around to see if there's one around. Found one of a member but its locked can't edit on it.

give me a few minutes to find one...a mother member sent me one a while back that can be edited.
 

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