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[Oten36]

Hello Chicken Mom's and Dad's! I'm new to posting here but have been on and off this site for several years. At the end of March our cornish cross meatbirds arrived at the local farm store. We had 4 deaths that first 36 hours so hubby went and purchased 6 more within a day. To our surprise those 6 grew so much faster than the other 21 that were two days older. Long story short...with a few pictures and a video sent to the hatchery...yep you guessed it. Our meat birds ended up being White leghorns. :0
We now are trying to regroup and figure out our options. I had already ordered 4 Buff's and 4 production red's for new egg layers.
Your thoughts are most appreciated.
Deanna

 

[Boppo]

Glad to meet you. Lovely sounding flock!
That is a LOT of the wrong kind of bird, though. If you are not totally attached to the Leghorns by now, you can try to rehome/resell them through your local Craigslist and Facebook sales section, as well as seeing if there are people on Back Yard Chicken close enough to you to take some of your excess Leghorns off your hands.
Best wishes with your birds and all your plans.

 

[Boppo]

You should also see if the hatchery will do the right thing and send you replacement Cornish Cross to replace the Leghorns (but you might want to wait until you have space)

 

[Dr Evy]

Welcome to BYC Deanna. We’re so glad you joined!
Best of luck!

 

[Boppo]

To find people in your area on Back Yard Chicken, use this link.

 

[Grammy60]

Hello Deanna and welcome to BYC So happy you have joined our flock.

 

[Boppo]

darn, it didn't take the link. Here is

 

[SilverBirds]

Welcome to BYC!

So sorry the hatchery got the birds mixed up. You could try to sell/trade them on Facebook or Craigslist. Good luck!

 

[N F C]

Hi Deanna, you might want to consider keeping the leghorns...they're excellent egg layers. Best wishes to you!

 

[janiedoe]

Hi Deanna, welcome to BYC.