Our new chickies

We received our new Cornish Cross chicks yesterday.  These are for meat chickens only.  We are raising them as prescribed by Joe Salatin.  Here is a picture of the little darlings at 3 days old (they came from Missouri in the mail).

As soon as they feather out, they will be moved to the chicken tractors and moved throughout the orchards and berry bushes. 

The Cornish Cross Chicken is a cross between the Cornish chicken and a White Rock Chicken. They were developed for the commercial meat chicken market and have been dominating it for the past fifty years. They are a rapid grower and pullets can reach 4 1/2 lbs by 6 wks of age and cockerels 6 lbs by 6 wks of age.

It will be great to have tender flavourful chicken to eat that is grown naturally with no additives.