Here is the situation, I bought 16 broiler chicks from one of our local feed stores who get their birds from Dunlap Hatchery in Idaho. The problem is that the feed store staff didn't really know what birds were what breeds. The pens were large and had many different breeds in each one, they were very mixed up. They did not know who had dispersed the chick order into the different pens. All they could tell me was that when they unload a box of birds, they must stick the corresponding label in that pen, which really did not give me a great deal of confidence.
I decided a little late to get meat birds, and this feed store was the only place left with chicks. The pen I got them out of had a sticker showing 3 types of meat birds, another sticker with Silver Laced Wyondottes, and another sticker showing Rhode Island reds. I know they are not the last two, so I figured they have to be meat birds, but I am not confident anymore because they are not big with drum stick legs like I've been seeing posted of other peoples chicken nuggets. Here they are tonight at 2 1/2 weeks old. For comparison, I put one of the meat birds in with a one week old Blue Black splash Orpington that we hatched out, plus a picture of the original feed store label, and pen of chicks. Thank you.
I decided a little late to get meat birds, and this feed store was the only place left with chicks. The pen I got them out of had a sticker showing 3 types of meat birds, another sticker with Silver Laced Wyondottes, and another sticker showing Rhode Island reds. I know they are not the last two, so I figured they have to be meat birds, but I am not confident anymore because they are not big with drum stick legs like I've been seeing posted of other peoples chicken nuggets. Here they are tonight at 2 1/2 weeks old. For comparison, I put one of the meat birds in with a one week old Blue Black splash Orpington that we hatched out, plus a picture of the original feed store label, and pen of chicks. Thank you.
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