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Quote: The 75% of live weight is from my own weighings of birds alive then butchered after 12 hours of feed with drawl. This is about the same figure I get in both meat birds and "dual" or layer type breeds. They have about the same gut and feather ratio, just different growth rates. The after...

If you are ok with eating them, I say go ahead and coop them up and put them on a grower ration. If they just had fluff left on their heads when you got them, they were about 4 weeks old. Butcher them if they look like they are starting to become crippled OR when you think they are big enough to...

Look like meat birds to me. They are pretty young still then huh. Free ranging is best for them if you do not plan to eat them soon. Caging them up is a good way to get them to be even more lazy so I say let them live out the way they have been or eat them. I personally would eat them as they...

Post a pic of these birds. They are sounding like Cornish x meat birds that were meant to go to slaughter at 8 weeks old. If they are, you have kept them alive for an extraordinary amount of time compared to most their relatives and often live short lives and succumb to leg and cardiovascular...