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ok lets say "playing with nature" then cause these things did not appear on thir own. By the way people were doing very strange forms of messing with genetics in world War II I believe so it has been around a lot longer than you think, just we have been perfecting it in the last 30 years or so.

Again I am not really complaining just making my own comments I am not looking to offend anyone who love meaties, think they smell like roses or whatever. I think those that have kept them as pets are cool and far more patient than I, but back to my original thought procedss wich is that they are weird! and smelly

But selective breeding isn't really messing with genetics. It's not like they let radioactive spiders bite them or anything. Almost every fruit or vegetable you eat is has been "genetically altered" by those standards.

yes I know I just dont put it into words well, as for the veggies I mostly grow heirloom for that reason lol I think they have more nutrition and have been messed with less my man.
 
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As has every other breed of chicken. No breed of any animal just appeared on its own; they're all the result of selective breeding.
 
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ok lets say "playing with nature" then cause these things did not appear on thir own. By the way people were doing very strange forms of messing with genetics in world War II I believe so it has been around a lot longer than you think, just we have been perfecting it in the last 30 years or so.

Again I am not really complaining just making my own comments I am not looking to offend anyone who love meaties, think they smell like roses or whatever. I think those that have kept them as pets are cool and far more patient than I, but back to my original thought procedss wich is that they are weird! and smelly

They are wierd and they are smelly. I don't know why people get so
disturbed by people expressing their opinions.

I wouldn't be surprised if more than "selective breeding" has been
used to develop these creatures.

Cornish X are also one of the most productive and tasty meat producing
animal in existence, but I think you already knew that which is why
you are raising those fat little pink butts.
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One of mine is defrosting
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oh thank you pc!!!!

for me selective breeding is fine and all but to create a creature that dies of a heart attack after 10 weeks is a little more on the extreme side of selective breeding if you want to call it that.

Oh I know they are tasty, serve a MUCH needed purpose in our food chain and all that. I used to scour the farmers markets for the organic ones for years and I cant wait to cook one of our own for my family!
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I am just a little taken back by them that is all. I grew up in the city and even though I went to horse camps and always did the outdoor animal thing I never had seen them before alive and chirping till I had my own.
 
Cornish Xs just seemed more reptilian than avian to me. And in Florida's great heat it seemed I was really doing them a favor, putting them out of their misery when it was time to butcher.

But wow, are they tasty!!! I can forgive any creature for being that repulsive when they turn out so delicious.

I really wanted to get Colored Range Broilers (Freedom Rangers) this year, I've heard so many good things about them. But our finances are too tight to justify any hatchery orders, I'm just growing out & eating the mutt cockerels my broodies hatch for me.
 
Some people get just as wacky over Select breeding, as if Animals mate for love and send each other cute text messgs' with X's and O's.

Some of this...Gen engeneering is good. No one stops to think about how many millions of gallons of fuel are saved by creating plants that resist weeds and dont need spray. Now if we could put prisoners in the fields with a hoe...but no that would be cruel.

Many of the arguments seem to be counter active. I.E. I'm told I can't smoke in public becouse it's unhealthy by an enlightened dude in a coffee shop who just hit his 4th dub' of the day... or the people who say that killing chickens is cruel and then vote pro abortion.

Also, I resent the books on the markeet now. All the writers get fat telling Steven King horror stories about food and painting ag producers as mad men.

Mean time, most farmers can't afford all those fancy cems and injections, but if you read the emotion based books by self proclamed experts. Farmers use more of Drugs than pro Baseball.
 
I think all chickens smell funny.... and poop too much.... but stupid..... I think they are smarter than most people put them off to be. I don't see a difference in witt between the layers and the broilers. They seem to be as smart as what we surround them with.

If you put them into a brooder their whole life, than ya... they probably don't have the sharpest beaks in the coop. But the ones I put out on pasture are just as eager to find new things and they willingly eat pounds of grass and bugs just like the layers. Unfourtantly genetics has just slowed them down a bit.... but it hasn't made them dumber...

I understand a lot of the comments that are taken the wrong way as a lot of people don't know what they are getting into when they buy these birds... even with all the warnings. But in the end I think everyone realizes that the meat that has been put on your families table is worth the stinky, smelly, poop too much creatures...

They are what they are and if you choose to raise them, you choose to take the whole package.... the complaining and venting comes with it too!! Even though I raise mine on pasture it's not fun cleaning up after 400 two week old poop-buckets after they leave the brooder, only to find out that in a day or two there will be 400 more stink bombs in there to fill their place... awww the cost of raising home grown chickens... the price your nose pays .... I like my cornish x's but you think I like cleaning out the ammonia filled brooder.... not so much, I can't wait to get those chicks out on pasture.

I think Master card needs a new commercial

100 broiler chicks $85.00
Pine Bedding $20.00
2,000 lbs of feed $200.00
Labor $ WAY to much
Poop Factor $ Endless


A clean brooder and 500 lbs of fresh chicken......... Priceless


Good luck to all that endeavor the frankenchickens..... you will need it!!
 
Just gotta jump in here and say that:

a) I have yet to find a chicken whose poop smelled good (in fact, I have yet to find ANY animal whose poop smells GOOD), and

b) My meat birds (barred silvers) don't seem to have any horrific smell, though they do create more poop than my little dainty layers (probably because they consume at least TWICE the feed)

This is my first year with meat chickens and I did steer clear of the cornish cross, mainly because I wanted something that would truly free-range. However, I think if you want the quality meat on the table, you just gotta suck it up and deal with the funk. They are, after all, little living beings that cannot really help the situation they are put in. WE (as in human beings) created them for this.
 
jeez i just buy dark Cornish and they are pretty easy to raise with not so much funk or poop or smell. i end up with lots of good chicken meat, but then again i raise quail to eat, and with quail each dinner guest needs at least two to get full
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