Is it worth it? White broiler pullet and cockerel

[Jordan-06]

So we bought ten meat birds from TSC with the intent on selling then at our local flea market several months ago. Skip forward to today and we have, drum role please, two birds left. Almost all the others got picked off by several predators that I just couldn’t get rid of and I think my neighbor killed a few bc instead of saying “hey your chickens are in my yard can you please pin them up?” He basically threatened my Mom that he’d run over them. Anyways, we now are left with two birds, one male, one female. I’m not experienced with meat birds and I was wondering if it was worth it to keep them as a breeding pair and sell the chicks once they got older. I will add that there are a lot of restaurants around me that butcher their own birds on sight so they’re always looking for birds.

You can not raise Cornish for more than about ten weeks because they will get to fat to live!

 

[Mosey2003]

You can not raise Cornish for more than about ten weeks because they will get to fat to live!

You can, but you have to ration their feed.

 

[LilyD]

You can not raise Cornish for more than about ten weeks because they will get to fat to live!

You can but you have to limit their feed and make sure they learn how to free range so they are moving and staying lean so it doesn't stress their hearts. Even then because of the weight of the roosters versus hens when he tries to mate with her they often will hurt the hens legs because they weigh so much. Often people will keep the hens and will mate them with a dual purpose rooster so that he is lighter and easier on her.

 

[Mosey2003]

If I had all the time and money in the world, I think it would be interesting to buy a box of 100 pullets and see how many could be kept for breeding, and then AI them with White Cornish (not the crosses) and White Plymouth Rocks, and see what you get. Sadly, I have neither the time nor the money, lol.

 

[LilyD]

If I had all the time and money in the world, I think it would be interesting to buy a box of 100 pullets and see how many could be kept for breeding, and then AI them with White Cornish (not the crosses) and White Plymouth Rocks, and see what you get. Sadly, I have neither the time nor the money, lol.

Right there with you. I would love it but starting one more project lol when I have dual purpose Orps I'm working on might be too much lol. The Orps are going to take me 3-4 years before I start seeing anything towards what I'm working on. Hoping for a decent egg layer that also can grow out fast and have enough weight on them to make it worth while to process. We shall see how it goes.

 

[Amer]

Right there with you. I would love it but starting one more project lol when I have dual purpose Orps I'm working on might be too much lol. The Orps are going to take me 3-4 years before I start seeing anything towards what I'm working on. Hoping for a decent egg layer that also can grow out fast and have enough weight on them to make it worth while to process. We shall see how it goes.

Cool! Going back to Cook style Orpingtons would be neat to see.

 

[Oncoming Storm]

You can not raise Cornish for more than about ten weeks because they will get to fat to live!

My first girl almost made it a year but we didn’t know about the whole rationing food and stuff and she was being abused by my Dominecker before I put her in solitary. We don’t really know if our cats at the time messed with her or if it was natural causes.

 

[LilyD]

Cool! Going back to Cook style Orpingtons would be neat to see.

That's what I thought too good during the winter and decent egg laying plus meaty as well.