Only 4 weeks old and eating a half a pound of food a day each!! :D
I decided to weigh my feed this morning and mine are 5 weeks and only consuming about .35 pounds per day. Mine are also in in an enclosed pen with lots of room to run and eat grass and bugs (which they do very well) so if...
There's a chart from Welp Hatchery that is a good guide to follow. Meaties will literally eat themselves to death!!
http://www.welphatchery.com/cornish_rock.asp
I'm feeding mine Purina Flock Raiser with an equal amount of grain mix (corn, barley, oats, wheat) but I am also fermenting. Last...
Have you cut one open to see what the insides look like. Look for yellow fluid in the body cavity (suggestive of congestive heart failure or ascites). Do your birds that get lethargic have purple combs, feel the chest cavity, does it feel squishy like water (not the crop)? Also, that seems...