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Kat! that's awesome! where did you get your birds?Just ate my first home-grown cornish x. Roasted it whole just like a store bought bird and smelled heaven for about an hour and a half.
Raised these birds on fermented feed fed twice daily and they had a large run to move around in. The birds were active and acted like chickens. Scratched, dusted, roosted, used their wings. None were lost to "flip", and there were no leg problems.
Butchered at 8 weeks; weighed 4-4.5 pounds dressed. None had evidence of acites, and I raised them at 7,500 feet elevation.
I am a convert now for these birds and no longer believe the franken-chicken myths. Treat these birds right and like the chickens they are and it will work out. Cram them in a tractor and pour the feed to them and have a different result.
I never would have done this without you great folks on BYC.
eta- would love to share my experiences with those of you cautiously considering cornish x.