Please tell me what I am! I'm not sure if I'm a Cornish X.

[Basskids08]

How big should it get, and about how long do they live? And if I wanted to teach my kids the difference from food or pet, what age do you cull it?

 

[blucoondawg]

8 weeks of age is the advertised amount of time from hatch to butcher. Hens grow a little slower and of course it depends how they are fed as well but the should be a full grown medium to large sized chicken in 8 weeks. They don't all die of heart attacks either people have kept them a year or more and incorporated then into their breeding programs for sustainable meat birds but in order to do that you have to limit feed as they will eat pretty much continually

 

[Basskids08]

That's why I don't want to keep it. I have no idea how to care for one of these kind. I feel kinda lost even thinking about dealing with it.

 

[blucoondawg]

Provide constant water and constant feed until 3 weeks of age then leave feed out for 12 hours and take away for 12 hours from 3 weeks until butcher. Or some people feed 2 times a day as much as they will eat in 30 minutes or so our you could leave the food out all the time but that is likely when you would encounter leg issues or heart problems.

 

[Basskids08]

So I won't be starving it to death if I take the food away? Right now I'm making sure the food is filled up constantly all day and night.

 

[blucoondawg]

Like I said constant food until 3 weeks old then start limiting. It will act like it's starving no matter what those things will eat pretty much all time time if they're able. You will actually see it's crop bulging. But no you won't starve it to death by limiting its food intake

 

[blucoondawg]

If you want more info on them there's all kinds of threads in the meat bird section about Cornish x

 

[Basskids08]

Thanks I'm going to check that out