Update on Our Update

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This is kind of an update on my Cornish Cross meat birds.  I usually buy about 40 to 60 chicks in the spring, but this time I only bought 25 due to the amount chicken we still have in the freezer.  When I butcher them at 10 to 12 weeks they give us about 4 1/2 to 5 lbs. of breast, leg, and wing meat per bird.  That gives us about three meals per bird for three people, depending on how it is fixed.

I am always amazed at how fast they grow.  These pictures show them at 2 days, 3 1/2 weeks, and 6 1/2 weeks old.

We ended up with 65 pounds of breast, thigh, leg, and wing meat from the 21 chickens that survived and we ended up butchering.