Last year we raised 25 Cornish Cross broilers. After 8 weeks and a couple days they dressed out at an average just over 6.5 pounds. They were so strange to range after being around regular chickens for so long. They were content to sit all day, eat and drink, then sleep, then repeat the whole process.
They tasted amazing though, and after swearing to never raise them again, eating the first bird made me rethink that promise. This year we went with Freedom Rangers. They are a bit more "chickeny", but they're still not the normal chicken that roams the homestead making a living. They were fully feathered and ready to go into the tractor about a week earlier, but they're gaining weight much slower in comparison.
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. So we'll see how they taste, but right now my guess is that we'll go back to straight run Cornish Cross that give us two distinct sizes, and allows us to be down with the process in under two months.
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