Help me collect data on Cornish Mortality rates please

[shaft0463]

We lost several to piling the first 2 days, but totally our fault. Since then, we have lost 1 out of 25. They are 10 weeks old, and are all still doing fine, aside from only being about 5lb. But then I feed them whole grains and alfalfa pellets, not a soy-based feed.

 

[terri9630]

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If you had 8 pound birds in 7 weeks, sounds like to me you may have been overfeeding them a bit. That would explain the flips you had at 6 weeks.

That has been our average at the 7-71/2 weeks with the last 100 birds. The ones that fliped at 6wks, if done in front of us running to the feeder wouldn't have been a loss. They would have been dinner.

 

[twister]

of a batch of 27, I lost only one to flip at day five.