When I purchased my chicks, I got the egg/meat combo...from the start I have made it clear to the kids that the Cornish rocks were meat chickens..,they have not named any of them, but treat them very well...I have caught a lot of flack for saying the boys will participate in the butchering process from coworkers...even called mean and barbaric...but I want the boys to know where their food comes from, and the sacrifice an animal makes to provide us with nutrition...no one moans when kids here shoot deer and butcher..,why a chicken?