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I appreciate your contributions but, personally, I would not change anything. I do not consider leg problems in 2 out of 29 birds to be reason to change the way we fed. I did read about 12/12 scheduled but when we tried this... we found the birds were quite fierce fighting for food the next...

Agree with CMobley -- the cornish cross aka jumbo cornish cross is the same type of chicken you buy at the grocery store. These are not backyard chickens - they wouldn't survive past about 3 months'ish. You can also process these birds early (3-4 weeks) and get a cornish game hen as you see in...

It's a 20% protein.. here are the stats from purina - they do make a medicated version, but we did not use it.

Thanks to all who answered! We processed the birds at 7 weeks, 3 days and had an average dress weight around 6 pounds per bird. We had one bird that had leg problems that started around week 4, and he/she came in significantly lighter. We only had one other bird that had trouble walking on...

Hello, This is our first year raising meat birds. We have jumbo cornish cross from cackle hatchery. They are 6 weeks, 3 days old --- we took a weight today and they are 10 pounds +/- I know that they are usually processed around 8-10 weeks, but we are at butcher weight. Should we process now...