We are trying a different bird this year since the 3-4 lb birds we had been raising are too small for us, It isn't cost efficient for us to raise birds that will only feed 2-3 people one meal.
The Cross Cornish will grow to about 9-9 1/2 lbs in less than 12 weeks. Now that's a meal and more. That's a chicken dinner every two weeks, but then I can get several meals from each chicken plus quarts of stock from their leftovers and bones.
They are brooding in the hen house until their have their feathers, then they will be moved out to the
chicken tractor and allowed to forage all the insects they can find.
We purchased the chicks from eFowl.com. They had a sale and by buying 25 chicks shipping was free. So it came to about $2.35 per chick, They were shipped via Delta Air and arrived one day after shipping. The packing list states : Hatched: 2016-06-22 06:00
They will use up about $10 worth of chick feed then they will forage and have a bit of corn and hen feed now and then.
We will let them grow to 9 pounds. Cost will be about $2.50 per chicken @ 9 lbs = $.27 per pound
Now that's "Good Eats!" to quote Alton Brown....
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