First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[GreatBreeder]

Heh

 

[lpatelski]

I haven't checked that. Curse you, JRNash, I'll be back after I waste a week reading that and reading everything related to it, and everything related to the related things!!!!!!!!

Knowledge is Never a waste of time. You will have a great amount of other people's trial and errors as well as research. Good luck. If you want more info as far as production goes,the Cobb "Academy" as a huge amount of information. You could write a school report. http://www.cobb-vantress.com/academy

 

[GreatBreeder]

I meant that in a joking manner in case you didn't notice. I'll check out that link, thanks for it.

 

[JRNash]

TGP, anything we can do to propel you down the road to chicken madness we do with a smile.

 

[JRNash]

Don't be so serious,time enough for that.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Heh

 

[JRNash]

The industry studies fascinate me. So does the rampant misinformation that's out there. People continually accuse the broiler industry of genetic tampering. Folks you'll know when they do. You'll see chickens the size of ostriches.

 

[lpatelski]

Okay I am stirring up my hens again. I have put my DC cockerels in with some white Crossbreds. My Big male "Spike" is now with the Dark Cornish girls. I would like to make some more 50%DC/50%CX. I like the cross. Maybe they will have the splash pullet color marker.

 

[lpatelski]

The industry studies fascinate me. So does the rampant misinformation that's out there. People continually accuse the broiler industry of genetic tampering. Folks you'll know when they do. You'll see chickens the size of ostriches.

It is not genetic manipulation. Just natural selection...

The 500-pound (225-kilogram) dinosaur probably ate a variety of vegetation, small animals, and eggs. A newly discovered dinosaur species that paleontologists have dubbed the "chicken from hell" is among the largest feathered dinosaurs ever found in North America.

The 11-foot-long (3-meter-long), 500-pound (225-kilogram) Anzu wyliei is an oviraptorosaur—a family of two-legged, birdlike dinosaurs found in Central Asia and North America. These dinosaurs ranged in size from a few pounds to over a metric ton, according to a study published March 19 in the journal PLOS ONE.

With its toothless beak, long legs, huge feet, and claw-tipped arms, A. wyliei looked like a devilish version of the modern cassowary, a large ground bird found in Australia.

It was "as close as you can get to a bird without being a bird," said study leader Matt Lamanna, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. (See "Pictures: Dinosaur's Flashy Feathers Revealed.")

The dinosaur's well-preserved skeletons suggest it was a wide-ranging eater, munching on a variety of vegetation and perhaps small animals.

The species emerged from three 66-million-year-old skeletons excavated from the fossil-rich Hell Creek formation of South and North Dakota, starting in the late 1990s. The third skeleton was found more recently, and it took years to identify and study all the remains.

The three Cretaceous fossils are the most complete ever found of North American oviraptorosaurs, whose remains are much scarcer than those of their Asian cousins. (Quiz: Test your dinosaur IQ.)

"We've got almost a whole skeleton from head to toe," said Lamanna, adding that scientists don't know why the fossils were so well preserved.

"Not only can we characterize a whole new species," he said, "we can characterize a whole group that has remained a huge mystery."

That mystery sprang from an absence of intact North American oviraptorosaur skeletons.

"Oviraptorosaurs are weird and wonderful animals, but previously the only decent skeletons were known from Asian forms," said University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., who wasn't involved in the study. "We didn't have a way to get a coherent picture of these animals until now."

 

[JRNash]

Lol. A fellow PLOS ONE reader!! I love that site!!!