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  1. CrazyTalk

    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Just bury them in and they'll be fine. Compost piles are good like that. While I was burying some in the other day I hit an unhatched goose egg from this spring's hatching season - still solid (until the shovel hit it) - now that's a smell.
  2. CrazyTalk

    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Mine go in the compost pile. There's no sense in throwing out all that protien.
  3. CrazyTalk

    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Jessica, one of the important things when you're sharing and learning is that you do your best to prevent the spread of misinformation. This argument wasn't in this thread until DuluthRalphie dragged it in here from the other thread. If you have a problem with it being here, take it up with...
  4. CrazyTalk

    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    The people who actually produce these birds have strain names - like Ross 708. Ross Poultry (which I believe is a subsidiary of Aviagen) produces those. They sell them to places like Meyer and Cackle, who sell them as Cornish X, probably because they buy multiple strains. As to the naming...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    CX basically means they're hybrids, and they come from multiple lineages - with certain background strains present. These birds are all carefully planned to have a confluence of certain traits - like being hetrozygous for genetic dwarfing (useful in the parent, not in the meat bird). They ALL...
  6. CrazyTalk

    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    I just want to point out that heating galvanized metal is a bad idea. People die trying to weld galvanized metal, or working on it in closed spaces. The coating vaporizes, and its really hazardous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever
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