pictures of two of my meat birds. these are obviously girls. the boys were larger. 13 weeks? I'd have to check my notebook to be exact but they're about that.![]()
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the first one has been on free range since she was about five weeks and I could start to tell which were boys and which girls. the second has been in a tractor. she's only very very slightly larger. They're about the size of my EE hen, although stockier and much broader through the breast. I don't know if I did something wrong raising them?? I'll be weighing the carcasses today. I have to borrow my mom's scale. mine suffered an accident when a toddler attempted to take it off a counter.
My one pullet CX was about 2lbs lighter at 13 weeks than the boy I did at 10 weeks. They just are smaller. Although her table weight was still a nice 7-8lbs. I did notice though the CX start getting fat deposits after 10 weeks. She had some, small, but she had some. The boys had none at all.