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Quote: I wouldn't say it's too much info, but in a free-range situation, some of it just isn't going to be possible. I'm afraid my records won't be as detailed or scientific as yours. I free-range all of my birds, and there's no way I can track who eats how much. I can only track how much feed...

Quote: I'm very interested in how this cross turns out. Good luck to you, I wish you great success! Please do post your results. I'm working on a breeding project myself, and will be trying some new crosses in the spring. Right now I have some of the birds I want, and will soon be hatching...

Quote: You might not be able to get them that big, that fast. That would be more like 20 weeks, or longer. But you can probably get them reasonably big, by 16 weeks, if you feed high enough protein to start. I know a lot of folks say the feed conversion ratio is bad with non-broilers, but...

It sounds like you already know that you won't get a bird anything like the Cornish X meat birds, and that you're doing this because you don't want a bird like the Cornish X meat birds, is that correct? A reasonable meat bird, that can handle high temps, and not drop dead on you, right? I'm...