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I'd love to see your numbers if you ever do a comparison. I know cornishx are bred for feed conversion and they are exponentially more efficient in converting feed to meat than standard dual purpose birds. I believe the short growth period is sort of a by-product of good feed conversion.

Are you saying you can get a brahma to yield the same feed conversion as a cornish cross?

Yeah, those things are great - I'm jealous you found one. I was saying anything other than one of those, might be better to go digital. Plus, I always thought it would be easier to look at a number as digits than trying to hold the reading at eye level and count tick marks in the field if you...

I use a cheap analog luggage scale with a 5gal bucket hanging to put the bird in, although I haven't weighed any birds in a while - just got pretty good at guessing the weights of any birds that I need to know the weight of. I like analog and manual things most of the time, but when it comes to...

Not sure what exactly you don't like about the cornishx, but I decided that my meat bird project was not going to support any part of the commercial poultry industry and so I switched to growing freedom rangers and they are delightful. I landed on freedom rangers because they are bred...