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I have read some of your reply’s on other posts and you seem to know your stuff when it comes to nutrition for the chickens at an affordable cost. What brand are you currently using? I’m having a hard time finding something good but also affordable. I don’t want to spend more then I would if I...

What brand of feed do you buy?

Hi! Have you ever dark cornish before? Any advice if so? I read butcher at 12 weeks.

Curious to know what you decided to breed. We are trying to figure out the same thing. We had the Cornish cross before but would rather not do that again. We now have dark Cornish cross (or at least we hope. We bought from TSC and they have a tendency to mark their chick incorrectly). I know the...

Thank you I’ll look those up. I’m still going to hold hope that the ones we have are dark Cornish cross 🤞🏻🤞🏻🫣

Oh I hope so!!!!!! 🤞🏻

@ the chick addict have you ever raised dark Cornish before?

Do you have a hatchery you would recommend to purchase meat birds?

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I thought they looked like Easter eggers when my husband first brought them home. (We have some some and they looked almost the same as chicks) but they seem to look different now they are a little older then what the eE looked liked. We thought we were buying meat chickens. We have plenty of...

Yes, we were planning on them being meat chickens. We have had the white Cornish rock which grew a lot faster then what these are. These are almost 4 weeks old. But from what I read the dark does grow at a slower rate. I’m hoping they are meat birds because we have plenty of laying hens!!!

Hi. Can anyone tell me what type of chickens these are? We bought them from TSC and the card said Cornish Cross. Are these considered dark Cornish?

I have also wondered too when to put the mama hen and her chicks back with the flock. The last time I had a Brody I let her out with the flock right away. She did a great job looking after her chick but I think a bird may have gotten hold of the chick since we let them free range during the day...