meat bird age and weight

[Mudflap13086]

Hi, I am raising Cornish cross and I see a lot of tables of weights at a given age in weeks. Just wondering if people consider age as starting on the hatch date or when you receive them and actually start feeding them?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Bird age is always from hatch.

 

[Compost King]

Hi, I am raising Cornish cross and I see a lot of tables of weights at a given age in weeks. Just wondering if people consider age as starting on the hatch date or when you receive them and actually start feeding them?

I can't speak for official counts but when I count their age I start with the day they start feeding. Thats just for me and my records though. I am counting days of being fed more than age days when dealing with meat birds. Nothing wrong with people who do it from day of hatch... we aren't competing with each other so having separate standards doesn't matter to me.