Help! I was told the breed of the chicks I bought were leg horns. They look way too big!

[Katydidd33]

Cornish cross cockerel. This is the 100th case of this I've seen this year.

Those birds won't live long. They're meant to be eaten at 8 weeks old.

You have to be 100% right because these 5/6 week old chicks are almost the size of my buff Orpington outside a and there are about a-year-old. The legs are HUGE! Sigh.

 

[Katydidd33]

Almost makes me think heart failure Too

 

[Duck_life]

In that case the chicken won't live very long.. sadly it happens to often.

 

[Folly's place]

The problem isn't that they are cockerels, the problem is that they are meat birds, and are meant to be in the freezer by eight or ten (usually too long) weeks of age. Their joints and hearts fail, and it's not pretty, or nice for them
Mary

 

[Katydidd33]

The problem isn't that they are cockerels, the problem is that they are meat birds, and are meant to be in the freezer by eight or ten (usually too long) weeks of age. Their joints and hearts fail, and it's not pretty, or nice for them
Mary

I agree I was just making conversation . It’s just my luck this year I was under the influence that they were leg horns