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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 10: processing day (12/24). Could not be happier with the results. Will definitely be using Hoover Hatchery (via TSC) in the future. Week 10 Total Live Weight: 117.8 lbs (largest = 13.6 lbs. Smallest = 9.0 lbs) Week 10 Total Cleaned Weight: 88.2 lbs (largest = 10.3 lbs. Smallest = 6.9...
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 7 (from this Saturday): Birds are doing great. Seem to be growing faster than anticipated [see below note]. We gave them access to food 24/7 for first two weeks and have been 12 hours on/off since. We ended up with seven cockerel (males) and 3 pullets (females). Week 7: Total weight = 84.2...
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 4: Started winging them to go outside (little later than we wanted). Still very active and are fully feathered. Our Easter egg "Blonde" is determine to peck her way into the chicken tractor and let em know who's boss (we think she is getting ready to lay and has been a bit onry). All is...
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    Hoovers Hatchery Experience

    We are happy with them thus far and will likely order from them again. I understand your thoughts on being cooler. We were thinking similarly during the heat wave this year and being to hot.
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    Hoovers Hatchery Experience

    Hi B_Chickle01, sorry to hear about your experience. We purchase 10 Cornish Cross from Hoover (via tractor supply) 3 weeks ago and have been documenting/posting as we go. Below is a link to our thread on BYC if you are curious. So far, we have been very pleased (note that we are green when it...
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 3: They are getting hug. All in good health as far as we can see. Planning on building a chicken tractor today to start moving towards getting them out of the kitchen and on grass/dirt 😃. We have been keeping track of their feed. I plan to share that info too. First guess, we have 4...
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 2: All are doing great. They are getting big fast. Week 2 weigh in: 18.6 oz average weight. Weights between 14 oz and 20 oz Total weight of 10 birds = 11.6 lbs
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Week 1: all 10 chicks are still doing great. They are getting big fast 😃 Week 1 weigh in (total weight, 10 birds) = 72.6 oz
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    Jack & Sara

    Thanks everyone!
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Day 2: everything seem good. Very active when not sleeping. They love soaked feed. Day 2 Weigh In (total weight. 10 birds) = 22 oz
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Just got my crash course on methionine 😄 Thread 'Methionine, cat food and chickens - a scientific look' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/methionine-cat-food-and-chickens-a-scientific-look.939481/
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Thank you for the info. I will definitely look into methionine. Not sure if I'm using the correct terminology with "organic" but my intent is just to try to be more natural and healthy from our diet to our chicks diet. I have looked into "organic" labeled feeds and they are pricy, also have a...
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    Jack & Sara

    Hi everyone. Glad to be here. Here are some picks of our new and "old" (5 months) chickies.
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    10 Count Cornish Cross from Hoover Hatchery (via Tractor Supply)

    Awesome. I'm glad we are on the right path. (The person at TSC ended up saying that is the feed they are told to suggest for chicks and no one could answer why based on ingredient comparison... guess that's the engineer in me) Eventually we would like to get more "organic" but for now, we are...
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    Jack & Sara

    Hi. We are Jack & Sara from the Sacramento Valley (CA). We are new to chickens and BYC. We got our first set of chicks in May of 2021; 4 cornish cross and 4 egg layers [silver leghorn, Easter egger, speckled sussex and a molted java]. My wife and I are high school sweethearts and decided to...
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