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No not much. The hen I held back is roughly 10 pounds. VERY large. She is bare backed and a very agile chicken unlike her mother. I have her in with my Buckeyes right now. She can roost 4 feet high without a ladder as well. I must get a recent picture as long as no one judges me on her naked...

Here she is now at 23 weeks. She has been laying for a while, because now she is broody. I didn't even realize she was laying because she does not have a big comb. :) She's with some 8 week old CX in these photos.

I put 6 eggs in and 5 hatched. Sold 4 of them, because I didn't have enough mutts to fill her order. She is going to give me back a male if she gets one.

Faster, and wider than normal heritage birds, but not nearly as fast as their mothers for sure. I am aiming for 12-14 weeks. Before sex hormones kick in and toughen them up. Both I kept are girls from the second generation. I am breeding them back to their father and continuing. This generation...

Yep, they are 6 weeks here :)

So glad you decided to cut back and let them really range with other chickens. They do better if they are raised with heritage birds. Seem to understand how to roost, scratch and forage better that way.

Mike, She came from a local hatchery. We are in Canada, so I doubt we have the same strains as the USA. Here we call them Meat Kings. They are a Cornish cross. I bought them at the Co-Op feed store, and that's the extent of what I know about the strain. They did say it was a local hatchery...

I always hear that Cornish X's can not reach breeding age. Well fortunately for Big Bertha, here they can. She was hatched on June 28th and started laying at 18 weeks old. She now lays regularly 4-5 days a week. Also gives us the biggest egg. We average 20 eggs a day right now, as most are...