ETA just realized this is a 3 year old thread that got resurrected. Never mind.
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I agree completely! I shutter every time I think of all the people that will tell me (online, I haven't ran into one since I left Colorado) just how mean I am for hunting or raising my own animals to butcher and eat and why didn't I just go and buy my meat at the store, where it's made!i for 1 am a meat eater.an i have no problem eating what i raise.i mean you get meat an eggs out of the store.an they all started out on a farm somewhere.im not ranting.but people need to realize where there food comes from.
6 to 8 weeks...?I think Jersey Giants don't actually make very good meat birds (that is, raised strictly for meat, to be slaughtered at a young age) because they take so long to develop to size. If you want to raise birds strictly for meat, you'd be better off going with Cornish or Cornish Rock crosses. Those I believe are slaughtered commercially at around 6 or 8 weeks old.
Orpingtons, Barred Rocks and so forth are considered dual purpose birds because they lay well, and after their "useful" life as layers, they are large enough to still have good table qualities, whereas birds like Leghorns that are strictly layers don't really have any meat to them at all (although they may be good for soup).
To answer your question, YES, 6 weeks = 42 days, to slaughter for the bird in the store. 10 weeks is very old for a Cornish-X meat bird. No steroids or anything except how they are bred.6 to 8 weeks...?
Really?
I know this is old but I was reading this and...wow. Maybe some of that is the 'medicated feed' (steroids).