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thats right. my point was dont feel bad about it. thats just the way it is.
thats right. my point was dont feel bad about it. thats just the way it is.
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I will let you in on a little secret,
If you don't want to have to raise your extras for several months to put some meat on them, but you don't want to have to deal with the CRX, try Purebred Cornish.
I got 15 White Laced Red Cornish to try out and see their quality for breeding (from McMurray Hatchery). They weren't the quality I was looking for to breed to standard, but the boys dressed out REAL nice. The girls are decent layers, though I sold all of those when I decided I had too many breeds around to keep them. They lay a medium brown egg, are great foragers, and they are very sturdy, hardy birds.
Here is one of the boys I cooked up from the ones I had butchered:
Here is what they WLRs look like alive:
They sort of have a mean look to their eye, but they really aren't. You don't want to keep more than one or two roos together, but the girls are very nice birds. I have Dark Cornish and some Blue Laced Red project birds and I love them. There is a lot more to them than you find in other breeds. You pick them up and they are solid!
Just a suggestion.
P.S. The pictures of them alive was about 6-weeks before they went to be butchered. And they all got along well since they weren't fully mature yet.
They weren't here long enough. I ate some of the cockerels and sold off the pullets. It was just for me to gauge the quality or lack of from MM on the Cornish. I wasn't finding any good quality breeder stock that I could buy, so was looking. I know have some that I bought from a breeder 2-years ago and I am working with. I have some WLR that need some work, but much better than the hatchery birds every would be, and I had all 3 WLR hens go broody on me a couple of weeks ago. That was about 30# all packed in the same next box too, so I booted them to an outdoor pen to break them.Snap!! Funny that I found this picture while doing a google search for broody Dark Cornish.
Question~ did the WLR from MM show any sign of broodiness or did you sell them before that could have happened? The MM dark cornish have a rep for brooding.....
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