Hmmmm hmmmm Meat burds

[Squishybear]

It’s processing day!



Behold the Cornish cross breasts! What a bird! Super friendly, super chonky but not fat… we actually have to process the rest tomorrow cos we ran out of fridge space where they rest for 24 hours.

 

[Jack Layton]

How long do they live before going to the shadow realm? Collect any eggs first?

 

[Squishybear]

These guys we did at 10 weeks. Some will do them as early as 6, average is 8 weeks.

We’ve had freedom rangers before, we let them go to 12 weeks but there was no significant weight gain from 8 to 12 weeks.

These Cornish cross are much much bigger and going to ten weeks was really pushing it. We let them free range and all that during the day and it did help them a lot in terms of being able to move better and just be a healthier bird overall. For comparison at 8 weeks these guys were the size of an adult buff Orpington chicken which are chonky little buggers to start off with.

Eggs on average start at about 6 months of age.