We have raised 15 to 25 meat birds at a time as a 4-H project.
The cost is about $2 a pound on the carcass weight at butcher
time. We bought our feed in 50 lb bags from the feed store.
Of course that does not include any money for our time.
My daughter's 4-H meat birds have grossly green breast meat next to the breast bone. The problem is only in the
muscle that is next the breast bone, the outer breast muscle looks healthy. We have slaughtered 23 and 5 have
had this problem. The birds are Cornish crosses. The meat is soft and...