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    Need help with selecting a meat bird

    if your growing for price/quantity, I guess cornish X's is your best bet. I personally prefer naked neck/turken for superior flavor, thin skin, better dark meat.
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    he fastest growing Cornish X

    hey, which hatchery do ya'll think has the fastest growing best feed conversion Cornish X? Anyone with any preferences? clyde
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    Breeding your own meat birds

    I just finished with my first batch of cornish cross. at eight weeks they finished at an average of 3 1/2 pounds. i suppose i am happy with that...i'm not really sure what they were supposed to weigh after 8 weeks. I;m not sure i'll do this again. i just bought some buckeye stock from a...
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    What is your favorite NON-Cornish X meat bird package?

    hi, i am going to try a commercial breed that isn't a cornish cross from s and g poultry in alabama. the grow out is 10 to 12 weeks but the birds are better foragers and have thinner skin than a cornish, which i think i will like.
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    Processing costs in your area?

    In Central Illinois I pay $2.15 per bird, bagged, weighed and labeled. but I have to drive 1.5 hours to get there.
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    2wk Cornish Xs...feeding schedule opinions, please :)

    hi, i have 20. I put them on the 12/12 schedule on the 7th day, per hatchery instructions. They are will be 3 weeks old on wednesday april 28...the seem very strong and active, not the lazy cream puffs i initially thought they would be. my birds are kept in a 12x12 indoor pen with deep...
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    Icelandic Chickens

    Quote: Maybe your Sigrid rooster was crossed up with a brown egg layer by mistake. he looks like something totally different than an icelandic and as far as i know, pure icelandics don't lay brown eggs.
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    Electric Fence Reality

    I am now six months into my first flock and thought i would report that I am using a 3 strand 10,000 volt electric fence at 5 inches, ten inches and 18 inches. I haven't had any problems with coyotes or coons and the chickens stay within the boundary. I open the coop at 7 am and shut them in...
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    People ever give you a hard time about...

    If a famine comes, you will be happily eating your chickens while your high brow neighbor is starving, or killing the family cat in hopes of a meal.
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    Raising Winter Birds

    Is it reasonable to brood some cornish cross or dark cornish and grow them out in december-january in central illinois? Have a heated garage and brooder, and an unheated barn for their coop.
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    Electric Fence Reality

    Thanks all. Just what I suspected. I am going to use a 3 wire electric to deter coyote and coon predation because it is cheap but my main barrier will have to be a mesh fence of some sort. Thanks for the replies.
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    Broiler Or Cornish Rock????

    I've never raised them, but my chicken friends don't like them. They suggested to me a dual purpose breed that is a little slower growing but more hardy. I chose barred rock for my first effort. we're at five weeks and haven't lost a single bird out of the 28 i bought.
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    What predator did this?

    Weasel. They enjoy cutting the throat of chickens ducks swans etc. Anyone know anything about weasel control?
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    Electric Fence Reality

    I have read that a single electric wire 5 inches of the ground is enough to the chickens in and the predators out (plamondon). I knew a farmer when i was a kid that used this method for his chickens ducks and pigs, all in the same yard. I have also been told that it is better to have three...
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