Can someone help me with the meaties?

[jerseygirl1]

Got pics, Gritty????

 

[TipsyDog]

Oh yes, pictures!

I LOVE your new Avatar Grit!!

 

[gritsar]

These are the only pics I've taken of them so far. The pics are two weeks old, guess it's time for some new ones but I was kinda waiting for them to grow out of the fugly stage first.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=372309

 

[Beekissed]

I helped them develop stronger legs by free ranging and they also had to climb a steep ramp into the coop for feeding and for sleeping. I was amazed at how big the thigh bones were on these birds compared to thighs one buys in the stores....enormous legs!

I raised mine to 11 wks. with no health problems and the organs looked healthy as can be, though the livers were slightly off color than what I consider normal.

 

[cedar-run-chicks]

I have one meatie pullet that escaped the catchers at a family members commercial brioler house. She is about 10 weeks old and already huge and does have allot of trouble getting around compared to my RIR and BO of about the same age. We must remember that birds that are used in commercial growing houses are bred to grow at an amazing rate which is a problem when trying to rescue them and incorporate them into our small home egg laying flocks. Growing up on a commercial breeder farm where we provided eggs for the hatcheries for these commercial broilers extreme care was taken to ration feed so that these parents birds did not get too heavy to be good producers of fertile hatching eggs however they were excellent layers if fed properly.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

hahahaha if you call THAY fugly just wait!!! I swear it gets to looking like they are packing a softball in their naked baboon butts!

 

[gritsar]

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That's the one thing I consider an advantage with my chicks. They were culled from the commercial houses for not growing at that super fast rate. Mine are now past the age when they would have been sent to be processed were they still living in the commercial houses. Comparing them to the ones (of the same age) that went out on the truck this morning I can tell you that none of mine are even close to that size.
Katy, in those pics they were still in the cute stage. It's now, a couple weeks later that they've hit the fugly stage. Waiting on them to grow some feathers for goodness sake! Pin feathers everywhere, they look like a bunch of white hedgehogs with beaks!

 

[Charlene]

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OMG, LOL! Too true. My husband looked at me and said "Are you sure you got the big breasted birds and not the big butt birds???" That was around week 4, now they are at week 7 and they look more "normal".

 

[angelique_redhead]

Fugly is relative. I bet they're so ugly they're cute. We need pictures.

: Angelique

 

[sonew123]

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Katy 20lbs? What on earth were you feeding them-skittles??? haha I knwo this sounds morbid but did you eat them?