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Cornish X are the best meat chickens by far. You get more meat per pound of feed with the Cornish X than with any other chicken. They do have their quirks and if you are not willing to deal with the quirks Cornish X are not the chickens for you. Some people say they prefer to raise chickens that...

Where did you get the information that meat by-products can be made up from pets that have been put down? I am willling to bet that practice would be highly illegal.

If the deer are crashing into the wire around your trees and bushes, it's a pretty good indication they don't see it. Hang some streamers or something on it so they can.

I use a utility or box knife. Since they use razor blades, you just replace the blade as needed. That way you always have a sharp (very sharp) blade.

Congratulations!!! I'm proud of you. We're all proud of you. Think of this as a learning experience. It will get easier with time. For a killing knife I use a utility or box knife. The kind that uses razor blades. That way it is always sharp. Having the water the right temperature is...

My first chicken was in heart failure and I salvaged the whole chicken. All eleven pounds of him. I just followed the instructions I printed out. It is really easier to do than it sounds. By the way, I had never butchered anything in my life before that chicken.

You need to butcher him now. Even after I became the designated chicken processor, I didn't bother to fast the chickens before I killed them. It is better if you do I suppose, but I didn't have any trouble cleaning the unfasted chickens even as a complete novice. I didn't fast the chickens...

Butcher him ASAP. If you look in the archives on BYC you can find step by step instructions on how to butcher a chicken. I found myself in the same situation. My husband and brother were out of town and I had a choice of butchering the chicken or letting him die and putting him in the...

I procrastinated and butchered one Cornish X at about four and a half months. He weighed 16 pounds dressed. However I like the Cornish because they are a short term project. Lots of meat in a short period of time. If I decide to raise Cornish X this year, I will butcher some early for Cornish...

The Cornish X meat birds you buy don't reproduce. Not because they can't but because when they do they do not produce a bird like themselves. They do not breed true. They are the result of a cross of the parent lines.The outstanding performance you get is a result of hybrid vigor. They are an...

Through no fault of my own, I became the designated chicken processor. I had 25 meaties that had to go to freezer camp. I did them two or three per day until they were all done. At three per day, a number I could handle, it only took just over a week to get them all done. Starting small is a...

My advice is very simple. DON'T THINK ABOUT IT. The first chicken I processed was out of necessity. It was a Cornish X that suddenly couldn't walk. I knew he had to be processed ASAP and there was no one home to help, and there wasn't going to be anyone to help for several days. I found the...