Photos of my 5 week old Cornish Giants

[Peruvian]

I thought I would share some pics of my chicks. They are 5 weeks old. They live in a tractor in the back meadow which I move nightly.

They are very curious when I open the door.

I ordered them from Moyer's (in Quakerstown, PA) again and am very pleased.

Here's an averaged sized one at almost 4lbs at this point.

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Oh, my! a 5 week old broiler at 4 lbs. I just ordered 100 from Meyer today and i hope I am as pleased with my results as I have heard others are.

 

[patandchickens]

Oh, I guess that answers my question from another thread about how to weigh them, too

Cool

Thanks for posting the pix (nice tractor!),

Pat

 

[willheveland]

They are a great size for their age.They are going to be a awesome batch.Nice job and nice clean set-up. Will

 

[americana-chick]

does this little chick look like a cornish x rock or just a cornish? i am hopping just a cornish because i do not want meat chickens!

farthest left.

He/she is growing feathers slower than buff orps so hopefully that means jus a cornish but are cornishes usually bigger birds?

 

[PurpleChicken]

Nice setup and great looking birds Peruvian.

Americana-chick, that is a Cornish X. His legs are too fat to be anything else. Sorry.

 

[jackiedon]

I just placed an ordered from Moyers last week so I'm glad to hear someone else has used them. I won't get them until Oct. 14 unless they have an overhatch. The customer service was very nice.

Is your tractor a hoop tractor? That is what we plan to make for ours.

Thanks for the pics.

jackie

 

[NC chicken man]

I had 300 broilers this half came from another hatchery then I got 150 from Moyer and from the start in the brooder they acted better more active than the first batch and all the way through I could really tell the two batchies apart, one of the Moyers dressed out at 7 lbs in 8 weeks and I know it's late but I've got 50 more broilers and 150 brown egg layers coming Oct 14 too.
Aaron

 

[willheveland]

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Can you say who the other hatchery was?I have seen a difference in chicks coming from different hatcherys as in being active, their size and alertness.There is a difference in quality between hatcherys but,I'm sure many times your still paying for the name.Some of the smaller hatcherys offer great value for the price. Will

 

[NC chicken man]

The first batch came from Mt.Healthy they where good birds but not as active like when I was moving the pens the Moyer birds would come to the front of the pen looking for crickets and grasshoopers where the other ones just wanted to move a little and just plop down, and this is my first year raising broilers im going to do 350 this year and hope to do3 or 4 thousand next year i have got 95 turkeys on the pasture now getting ready for thanksgiving,so I have got a lot to learn myself.
Aaron