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    How much feed for Cornish X

    Mine just turned 3 weeks of age & have unlimited feed for 12 hours a day (8-8:30 am to 8-8:30pm). It's recommended to feed only 12 hrs a day after reaching about 3 weeks old to prevent problems.
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    You should do another batch! I'm on my second batch this year, and am thinking of doing a third when these are gone (like you, mid-August). We buy 1/4 of a cow every year & with all this chicken we are looking into getting another chest freezer for all this meat! Plan is to never buy...
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    Cornish cross,broiler thread!!!

    ....more than one way to eat I guess!
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Trust me....after you get that 1 bite in with some mashed potatoes, you'll forget feeling bad! :D
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    Difference male/female

    I'm no expert (and I'm sure someone else will chime in)...... But mine are 3 weeks old & you can start to notice the comb on the rooster's head larger than the females.
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    Cornish weights...

    Yes. Let us know. I just went on a poultry processing web site & it said that a dressed bird is usually 75% of the live weight (so a 6lb would come out at around 4.5lbs).
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    Cornish weights...

    You know, I really wish I had done a weight before processing. So I don't know what they weighed alive. I've already started my 2nd batch this year so if I remember to do weights the night before process I will! Friends of ours averaged their CX's at 5 lbs with a few above 7 dressed.
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    Question for all who have processed lots of birds

    Having the birds off feed for 12 hrs before processing helps.
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    Cornish weights...

    Lol, no don't want turkey sized birds! Was wondering what ranges people usually get & if I was sort of in the range, or if I was below it.
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Maybe...and this is total speculation.... Maybe it's too cool for them yet to spend too much time outside? Some time outside could be ok (I haven't let mine out yet), but maybe the one that died got too cool? Tomorrow ours should be of age to have the brooder at 85 degrees. I'm having a bit...
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    Cornish weights...

    8 weeks old.
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    Cornish weights...

    So my first batch of Cornish Crosses are in the fridge "resting". I'd like to know what you guys who have raised CC's weights were after culling. Out of 19, I had 2 over 6lbs. Few in the 4 lb range, but most in the 5lb range. Thanks!
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    Raising our 1st set of CX meaties

    What we (small chicken raisers) have over big chicken companies and especially ANYTHING from China...is that we can say its completely natural meat without any chemicals(if we do it that way, which i am). Yes, a lot of companies advertise hormone-free, free range chicken, but they can still...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    What's the outside temp where you are? When it gets pretty hot here....like over 80 degrees (past few days its been mild though), I put powerade in their water regardless for the electrolytes. Sorry to hear about the chick :(
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Haha..if you think they run to you now when they're hungry, wait till they're 6,7,8 weeks old & it's time for breakfast! :P
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