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Jessica!! How have you been?? How is the egg farming going???

lol, you're a lot more forgiving than I would be

But is the toad in the smoker a Bert? I didn't say that you don't process Toads, but that you don't process Berts.

I have seen proof IN THIS THREAD that shows that the CX is more fragile than other birds, even when being raised correctly. A few people on this thread tried to raise them to breeding age and ended up losing a good number of them by breeding age. Ralfie only has a handful of Toads due to the CX...

I am aware, but they still drop dead randomly. I have read this entire thread, I know the toads are getting hardier than the CX but also know that the CX to CX breeding was a pain because so few last that long, even with restricted feed. So, doing CX to CX breeding in the long term wouldn't be a...

It means that if you buy 100 CX from somewhere, they will all be pretty much identical, they will all finish out about the same weight, the same body shape, same color, etc. If you breed 2 CX, you will start getting variety, some big ones, some small ones, some color will probably show up. Stuff...

Feed Conversion Ratio. Or, how much feed do you put in to get meat out.

Actually, I have caught them wild, but they MAY have come in as eggs in my horse feed, I have only seen them in my horse stalls and mostly just in 1 stall (that horse drops a lot of feed). They appear to come out and eat during the night and hide under the feed pan during the day. Pick up the...

Lol!! I had a horse suck one up his nose when he was snorting at a show! He has a pretty good heart too!

I saw a video on Facebook in Dallas I believe, there were cars up to their windows in water in the middle of the road and some guy in a front end loader had to go out there and dump water on one of them because it was burning and the fire truck couldn't even get to it because of the water....

The reasoning for the commercial farms to have them makes sense. They don't get as hot in the summer so less energy needed to keep them cool, they don't have feathers (not even the "hair") so no need to pluck so that saves energy, and then, chickens use protein to produce feathers, so chickens...

Actually, the Scaless gene can be in ANY breed, not just CX (though I did see where they were experimenting with the scaless CX), we also have a member on here that has the scaless gene in her Naked Necks. There is a HUGE difference between naked neck and scaless, the scaless do not have ANY...

Quote: I could be wrong, but I found what looks like a small hatchery that sells Cobb 500 and this is their description "Cornish cross white meat pasture broiler that goes from just hatched to ready for processing in 6-8 weeks on minimal feed and pasture." As CX stands for Cornish Cross, it...

I believe they meant 8'x8' coup.. But I could be wrong... I would love to see someone try to put 4 CX in an 8 inch square box though.... Wouldn't even work if they were dead... Maybe if they were ground into burger....

So, if for whatever reason you had not been able to get him off of his feed bag one morning, and he jumped down and shattered his legs, and had to sit there for a few hours before someone found him, that would be better than just staying on the ground where he was safe? Also, didn't that roo die...

Quote: Is this for Cornish Cross? Or just a general question? It seems ( I have not raised them, but I've read a ton about them) that they don't really like to roost, they just pile up in the floor, and that it can actually be dangerous for them to roost as they get heavier.

I don't know, if I dry my hair I have my hair dryer going at high speed for over an hour... I imagine if it turned off every now and then when it came up to temp that it might be ok....