Very nice! My MM Delaware Enhanced Broilers are 12 weeks old tomorrow so I weighed them today, as I am going to be butchering them along with my Cornish Cross tomorrow.
The weights are very impressive!.
Biggest: 6 lbs 10 oz
Smallest 4 lbs 1 oz
Below are the weights of all #10
1: 6 lbs 10 oz...
My New Hampshires turned 12 weeks old and I have some impressive weights.
I have 4 roosters & 7 hens.
I will list the roosters from biggest to smallest, & same with the hens.
Roosters:
#1: 9 lbs 0 oz
#2: 8 lbs 14 oz
#3: 8 lbs 19 oz
#4: 7 lbs 9 oz
Hens:
#1: 6 lbs 13 oz
#2: 6 lbs 8 oz
#3: 6...
I will be free ranging the NHs once they are 12 weeks old & I remove them from the chicken tractor. I hope this helps keep their weight down some. I have a good friend with a Cornish Cross Rooster that is a year or two old and is a MONSTER in size but is free ranged and runs/breeds ok. I...
Very nice! Anxious to see the 12 week weights. How are you weighing them? I thought about trying to put them in a kill cone and using a fish scale as a way to be more accurate.
It is really hard to get good photos and they don’t really show the difference in body mass very well, but here are mine: Delaware’s 8 weeks and NHs 9 weeks old.
It looks like the sexlink roosters are a significant amount smaller than the NHs. I am also very curious how the sexlink roosters growth compares to the pure Delaware growth rate. Being 1/2 NH, it has to be faster, but how much faster. If you could get sex link roosters to grow as fast as the...
Right now my NHs are 8 weeks old and Delawares are 7 weeks old, the NHs growth is seriously impressive and I am guessing is equivalent to red broilers like Red Rangers, Freedom Rangers, etc.
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You are doing the exact same thing that I am currently doing, except my Delawares are the enhanced broiler Delawares from MM hatchery & my NHs are from freedom ranger hatchery. I am excited to see how these are working out for you! It would also be interesting to grow side-by-side the...