I just proceesed part of my second batch of cornish rocks yesterday and ran into something odd. I hope someone can help. Everthing was normal (behavoir, size, internal organs looked good, no fluid in belly) until I went to cut off the thighs. There was layer of thick fluid under the skin on both...
This was my first go at any livestock and all in all I am happy with the result. This is mostly due to the information that I found on this site.
I started with 20 Cornish Rocks and ended with 17 (lost 3) birds between 4.5 & 5.5 Lbs at 8 weeks.
One thing I wanted to share is I made a drill...
I had 20 now 19 Cornish Rocks from TSC. They will be 8 weeks this coming weekend which is when I intend to process. They have been eating Dumore Starter/grower from TSC since day 1 but since TSC is not very good about stocking their feed (which is another subject in itself) I had to switch them...
I am looking at processing 20 Cornish X over Memorial Weekend. This will be my first time for chickens. I have read the stickys here and some other resources and was wondering if you need to go from the plucking right to the evisceration or if you can chill the birds in between. I talked to a...