First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[duluthralphie]

I also vote for the Creamettes for the high jump. (That's been my experience...)

- Ant Farm

They could be used as quail at a game farm the way they jump and fly!

 

[duluthralphie]

I am up because my arthritis is not allowing me to sleep....and I am avoiding a pain pill..



I just read about a hatchery in Wisconsin within 70 miles of me that sells CX's. The call them jumbos, but they are CX's.

Anyways I took this from their website:

Nutritional Requirements

Sunnyside Jumbo Broilers are an extremely fast growing meat type chicken and must be fed a quality high energy broiler ration of 23% protein for 4 weeks and a 20% grower ration to finish. Leghorns and dual purpose birds need a 20% starter to 8 weeks and a 17% grower to finish. Starting the third day, lightly sprinkle baby chick (#1) grit on the feed daily. Use an open feeder tray the first few days to give chicks easy access to feed. Feed should include coccidiosis prevention. Vitamins and Electrolytes are recommended at 1/2 teaspoon per gallon to start chicks.
To help avoid leg problems and heart attacks consider mildly restricting feed to your Jumbo Broilers. Starting at 2 weeks let Broiler run out of feed or remove feeders by 8 p.m. It really works!


When will these people learn, Too much feed and protein is the enemy of truly Jumbo birds. arrrgh
This is the kind of advice I followed on my first CX's that caused me much grief!

 

[JRNash]

I've been up for a few hours myself. IT'S storming here. Hope the good Lord eases your pain Ralph. SunnySide had good prices but they will NOT ship to where I am.

 

[JRNash]

I stopped taking all my medications a little over two weeks ago after landing in the Er for heat exhaustion again. My nut pills were exaberatting my sensitivity to heat. Bp was 53/35 kept falling over. Now my emotions are EXTREMELY volatile. Catch 22. Take physc meds and DON'T work or stop and go back to work. I will be back at work in the morning.

 

[daskhan]

Emotional stress and fluctuation can also make working pretty hard (depending on what you do)

 

[JRNash]

I beat things with a hammer.

 

[JRNash]

Its either try this are start trying for a disability. And that just doesn't sitt well with me.

 

[daskhan]

by beat things with a hammer do you mean your a carpenter or a black smith or? just a curiousity

 

[duluthralphie]

I thought the prices were high at sunnyside when you added in the surcharge for less than 100 birds.

It was the feeding instructions that made me take a second look.. To me if you feed them 23% protein for 2 weeks, the damage is done. At 2 weeks mine are on grass.

Sorry your having so many problems JR. I have stopped taking many meds because of side effects too. I think it is a balancing act. Like today, it is cold and rainy here, my joints hurt. But if I take a pain pill I will be in bed or asleep in a recliner for the better part of the day, so I live with the pain.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I am up because my arthritis is not allowing me to sleep....and I am avoiding a pain pill..



I just read about a hatchery in Wisconsin within 70 miles of me that sells CX's. The call them jumbos, but they are CX's.

Anyways I took this from their website:

Nutritional Requirements

Sunnyside Jumbo Broilers are an extremely fast growing meat type chicken and must be fed a quality high energy broiler ration of 23% protein for 4 weeks and a 20% grower ration to finish. Leghorns and dual purpose birds need a 20% starter to 8 weeks and a 17% grower to finish. Starting the third day, lightly sprinkle baby chick (#1) grit on the feed daily. Use an open feeder tray the first few days to give chicks easy access to feed. Feed should include coccidiosis prevention. Vitamins and Electrolytes are recommended at 1/2 teaspoon per gallon to start chicks.
To help avoid leg problems and heart attacks consider mildly restricting feed to your Jumbo Broilers. Starting at 2 weeks let Broiler run out of feed or remove feeders by 8 p.m. It really works!


When will these people learn, Too much feed and protein is the enemy of truly Jumbo birds. arrrgh
This is the kind of advice I followed on my first CX's that caused me much grief!

The thing that gives me the willies is how people refer to these guidelines for how to raise broilers the way someone would refer to a gospel/religious text. Any time people are not open to questioning something or innovating, (especially claiming something won't work without trying it or looking at evidence), it makes me very nervous.

- Ant Farm