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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    Sorry for the slow update guys, we actually did the butcher about a month ago when the chickens were 14 weeks and they all were on average the same weight. Our largest example was from the meyer hatchery on meat bird feed with a bled weight of 5.12 lbs. All the roosters averaged between 4 to 5...
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    Standard White Cornish chicks and eggs

    I am also interested in hatching eggs or chicks and I also live in Western Washington. Sending a PM for more details!
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    Alright I did a weigh in but first let me fix an error, I said earlier that the 10 cockerels were from McMurray but they are not. There were ordered from Meyers, I got my hatcheries confused. Now onto the numbers, all of the chicks are doing great! Deer Run chicks are a bit more feathered and...
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    Yikes @Molpet those hens were not doing good, glad you shared your experience. We were thinking about trying some of those next year but maybe we should pass on that.
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    All very good points! We have been considering switching to more of an all flock feed and then offering a calcium supplement for the layers in the future but maybe we will just make that transition early as I have found a reasonable all flock 20% protein feed which should provide a good middle...
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    The order of cockerels from is just hatchery stock so I'm not interested in keeping them as breeders. Additionally I couldn't find much information about raising dual purpose birds on meat bird feed and if it benefited time to butcher. In contrast I'm raising the deer run chicks on regular...
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    I hadn't thought about it, but since they are on different feed than our laying flock I can keep track of that pretty easily! It likely won't be a daily rate but how long a standard 40 lb bag lasts.
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    That is one of the things I have also considered! My other chicken crazy friend has some beautiful NH reds that I have thought about crossing or maybe introducing Dark Cornish for a more meat centric sex link.
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    Delaware Meat Bird Attempt

    Alrighty folks making an attempt at doing Delawares as a meat bird! I sourced a couple dozen hatching eggs from Deer Run Farm and they hatched 1.5 weeks ago, within a day I also received 10 day old cockerels from Murray Hatchery. My intent is to raise the day old hatchery chicks on meat bird...
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