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    They can be, I know she had a few half bald girls because of the alpha ladies. I just love their color.
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    True RIRs have a beautiful red, I don't much care for the red of hatchery "RIRs". It's just not as nice of a color. Honestly my favorite chicken has been my cuckoo Marans roo. He was a giant baby. He loved eating mealworms and crickets right out of my hand. We gave him to a friend of the family cause a fox got their roo. Here is a pic of him right before we loaded him up.

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    I love the big vibrant combs and wattles on roo's. Pretty boy.

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    Thanks! I sometimes wish we had kept him and not our ee roo. But a raccoon got ahold of our ee girl so hopefully the beginning of spring I can incubate a couple eggs and get a few more ee's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsarchie View Post
    Awesome Chris! I cant wait to get home to get some layers and I will be getting some meat birds as well. I am also going to be getting a lamb to raise for slaughter next fall.
    I meant to post this up yesterday, and for whatever reason it never posted. You should check out Joel Salatin's "Pasteurized Poultry Profits". I found this book very helpful on how to utilize land, and how to best build a chicken tractor for meat birds and all kinds of other help.

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    Just an update on the meaties! Almost big enough Tuesday will be 60 days so with in the next week or 2 these will be in the freezer. And for the bird I wasn't quite sure about, I'm still not sure of the breed but I am fairly confident it's a roo.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisS View Post
    Just an update on the meaties! Almost big enough Tuesday will be 60 days so with in the next week or 2 these will be in the freezer. And for the bird I wasn't quite sure about, I'm still not sure of the breed but I am fairly confident it's a roo.

    Cool! My daughter would kill me if we ate any of her girls. We got some pretty blue wyandotte chicks this year. Post up another pick of the "roo". Kinda looks RIR to me, except I thing RIR has a bigger comb?


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    It only takes 60days for a chicken to get to size to eat?!
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    mad roaches yo

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    Yea I grow Cornish cross birds. They are hybrids specifically designed to grow very quickly. They are ready to be processed in 8-10 weeks. Waiting much longer and the birds will start to die from cardiac arrest because their hearts cannot handle the size of their bodies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisS View Post
    Yea I grow Cornish cross birds. They are hybrids specifically designed to grow very quickly. They are ready to be processed in 8-10 weeks. Waiting much longer and the birds will start to die from cardiac arrest because their hearts cannot handle the size of their bodies.
    Cornish are the smaller ones so does that mean theyre smaller than the avg sized chicken you'd buy in the grocery store? Or since theyre hybrids theyre about the same size?
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