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    Bantam rooster with full sized hens

    We rescued a little Mille Fleur bantam rooster. We have a young flock of BO and BA that are now starting to lay. I see him mount them often, but I'm pretty sure absolutely no contact whatsoever of their vents has happened since he is so much smaller than the girls. Has ANYONE had a bantam...
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    How many of you FULLY Free Range your Cornish X Meaties? Tractors do not count.

    We NOW fully free ranger our cornishx. We too believed 100% from others that you could never free range CX. So we raised 3 batches of 50 in tractors. never really liked that either since they didn't move around much. Our change occured when we processed a friends 12 CX that she had in a net...
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    Letting Meat Rest

    We process 50 birds at a time and cannot rest them in the fridge for 3 days. We are 100% solar so putting another fridge on the sytem isn't an option. We cool them completey after process in an ice bath. We then bag them and they go immediately into the chest freezer. We've seen no problems...
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    Discovered an easy way to keep meat birds cool!

    We've put multiple blocks of ice in the tractor with them and the cuddle up to them.
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    Cornish Rock X differences

    Has anyone ordered multple batches from the same hatchery to have the chicks be different from each other? Our first batch of CRx were lazy, high mortality rate early on ( lost a total of 9 out of 50), had no interest in foraging in the tractor and noticed that some had other feather colors...
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    Broiler Chick Mortality Rate

    I think you might want to give the hatchery a call. Perhaps they will compensate for your immediate losses??????? It's worth a try.
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    Feed requirements for CX and other questions

    Last year's batch of 50 went through 1000lbs of feed in 8.5 weeks. The older chicks go out into the tractor at 3-4 weeks of age and get fed in troughs 2x per day. Once the feed is gone it's not replenished until the next feeding. The young chicks are in the brooder in the shed with smaller...
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    Feed requirements for CX and other questions

    We use Blue Seal Feeds and their poultry finisher for meat birds is actually a pellet and I was surprised by that. Currently, we have a set of CX that are nearing the end and another "coming" up and we were trying to streamline the feed and try to only have 1 feed by feeding them ALL the...
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    Feed requirements for CX and other questions

    I have a couple of CX questions. What are the feed requirement ranges for the protein, fat and fiber through the weeks? I was seeing them all over the place. We were hoping to switch to the 18% protein sooner than the "recommended" 6 weeks; more like 3 or 4 weeks. Also, how soon can CX...
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    Poultry processing in Southern Maine

    Here's the Maine gov link listing all the processing plants. You'll need to look under CEP "Custom Exempt Poultry" column. Hope that helps. We've brought ours to West Gardiner Beef. http://www.maine.gov/agriculture/qar/meatplants.html
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    Cornish X suddenly dying at 3 weeks old - HELP!!!

    Update? have you found a cause yet?
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    Processing in NH

    West Gardiner Beef in Gardiner ME
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    Help with Broiler chicks

    This is only the second year raising broilers. This year we are having a high number of deaths and a few look like they aren't growing like the others. We received 51 chicks from Welp, all alive. We lost a few over the next few days, we suspected that we didn't have the temp quite right...
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    can you brood CornishX with turkeys?

    We have raised cornishx meaties before, but never any turkeys. This year we want to add a few turkeys to the cornishx order and brood them together. Is this even possible? Do the turkeys have different temperature needs than the chickens? We are trying to simply the process and try to not have...
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