Reviews by Lacy Duckwing

I dont show my bantams but thanks for the info! I dont know that silkies are only one size because my silkies are bigger than my silkie bantams even though the "Largefowl" silkies still arent that big

Thanks, Lacy! I appreciate your response!

Hey Lacy, since writing that article I have raised 5 more flocks of meat birds. One flock were the Big Red Roasters (which we did not like) and the rest were Jumbo Cornish X.
Let me just add by saying, it really matters where you buy your birds. Absolutely important. Our first flock of Cornish X were from Meyer Hatchery. They were straight run and it was winter here. I’m sure the mortality rate was a lack of knowledge. We live and we learn. Hopefully we do. After that, we have ordered from Murray McMurray since we’ve had better luck with them. However, my oldest bird and favorite chicken, Penny, came from Meyer. So it’s just a matter of preference where you get your birds from.
Our last 2 flocks (30 Jumbo Cornish X) were raised for Cornish Game Hens. We fed them 12 on 12 off with no loss of birds; we cull them at 3.5 to 4 lbs (4-5 weeks) and have beautiful Cornish Game Hens dressing out at 2.5 to 3 lbs. which is perfect for us. For full size 5-7 lb broilers we raise them another 3 weeks or so. The taste is divine not to mention they are the sweetest birds on the planet. Just a pleasure to spend time with, which makes it super hard to cull them.

Took the bird to the vet. Perfect health. X-rays, stool & blood workup. No underlying diseases or health conditions. Middle-aged.

Temperatures vary from mid to high heat. The out gassing is usually detectable by odor it gives off. None w/stainless steel.

We noticed every time we cooked w/new non-stick cookware our bird would go down.

Looked it up and there is a plethora of articles on this issue. Cookware companies are not going to tell you this of course. Reason I did not name the manufacturer because we didn't want to get sued.

Strange that most companies have renamed their coatings but when you investigate you find out it's Teflon. They claim to have removed the offending substance but I suspect there is something else in the coating that's deadly.

When bird had a seizure and almost died we woke up.

Usually Teflon is deadly and birds do not survive.

I can't tell you what to do but we have sided with caution and removed all non-stick and went back to stainless.

The bird got better immediately and returned to his behaviors in December prior to using the non-stick cookware.

I believe we should be cautious of new products as history has taught us again and again they usually have side effects. Some deadly.