you tell me Cornish or not

[love2chicken]

I think i will have to get one on line. but i used a bathroom scale to day with a box on it and they are about 5.0 to 7.8. i think that is good. hoping the one i am getting from welps will do a lot better and get bigger. with the coop and bird the feed and all that it has been very costly to raise these 7 birds about 35.00 bucks each. at least the next batch wont have to build the coop and the light and wire and that stuff. well i will let you all know how it goes. thanks

 

[menageriemama]

Not Cornish X.

 

[terri9630]

Check your local stores. Walmart sells a digital fish scale that I think goes to 50lbs for about $20.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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definantly not leghorns, leghorns have a much thinner build

 

[love2chicken]

well they are all in bags I have not weighed them yet but i will and post tomorrow but any one know when i should cut them up so they are not though thnaks

 

[terri9630]

You can cut them up at anytime. It doesn't matter if you let them rest before or after cutting them up.

 

[love2chicken]

well I have weight they all the smallest was 2.15lbs the biggest was over 5.4 lbs my scale only goes to 5.4 so avg was 4lbs not to bad got a total of 29.25 lbs out of 7 chickens. at a cost of 8.00 bucks a lb total cost start to finish was 233.98 coop, light, feed,chickens,shavings, netting for the coop,ect. but hoping the next back will be cheaper. they will be here in a week i hope. to start all over again.

 

[terri9630]

I don't count the reusable stuff (coop/feeders and such)toward the cost per pound since you reuse it batch after batch. It averages out over lots of chickens.