White Leghorn or Cornish Cross Chicks

[SequoiaBaby7]

I have had both the Cornish cross and white Leghorns. The Cornish are much stockier even as little chicks and have pretty thick legs. Leghorns are generally a little taller as well as longer and more slender.
Based on your description of the live ones the one that died was probably a Cornish X.

Can you really order just one chick at a time? I'd think that it would be more likely to die, being alone and without the body heat from other chicks.

Edited to add- almost forgot! Congratulations on your new little chicks!

The minimum they can ship is 3, so I am ordering 2 extra meat chicks. Part of the reason why my husband is wanting to butcher the extras we have is because my six chicks I originally wanted turned into 8, then 10, and now we're going to have 12. It's just so hard to choose!

 

[SueT]

Your photos are very nice...I hope you update us with more as they grow! Now you've got us all curious about what they are.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Lol welcome to the world of chicken math! Two years ago I would not have thought I would have close to a hundred birds.

 

[SequoiaBaby7]

Right now they do look much the same. What color are their legs? The cornish x usually have pale pinkish legs but not always.

The first chick has paler legs than the secon but they are slightly smaller in size.

Here is chick number one:

And chick number too:

 

[SequoiaBaby7]

Yes but 2 cornish cross are going to make like one enchilada casserole. lol Slight exaggeration but that's not a lot of meat once you subtract bones, feathers, skin and guts.

What breed would you suggest I raise for meat then? To keep my husband happy with all of this I have to give him some good birds to put in the freezer lol

 

[SequoiaBaby7]

Your photos are very nice...I hope you update us with more as they grow! Now you've got us all curious about what they are.

Thank you! I am totally in love with my little rainbow flock. I will definitely let you all know what they turn out to be

 

[Farmgirl47]

What breed would you suggest I raise for meat then? To keep my husband happy with all of this I have to give him some good birds to put in the freezer lol

Freedom Rangers are awesome. They take a few weeks longer to grow out but they are my favorite meat breed.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

^ Plus you can actually hatch some yourself instead of having to constantly buy chicks and hope they survive the mail.

 

[SequoiaBaby7]

After reading all of your comments, I think that I have one of each breed so I changed the replacement from the white leghorn to another broiler. Instead of getting another Cornish Cross, Meyer let me change my order of 3 chicks to a variety of Rangers. Thank you all for your help!

 

[SequoiaBaby7]

I just thought I'd update you all that I DEFINITELY have one Cornish Cross and one white Leghorn. I'm very happy with both of them and thank you all for your advice