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09/04/2006: ""

Our CornishxRocks are ready to go into the freezer. We started with 51 and they all made it. I changed the feeding program from last year and haven't had any leg problems or unexplained deaths that may have been heart atacks. I only feed them their crumbles twice a day, morning and afternoon. Along with a big scoop of scratch grain outside. And I didn't switch from the chick grower to the high powered meat maker ration. They also get any stuff from processing the garden produce.
We have 18 in the freezer and I sold 5 to a buddy at work. So we still have some work ahead of us but we do 10 or so at a time and it's not as hectic as trying to get them all done in a day.
I kill them and then skin them. Tammy cuts them up and bags them for the freezer. A pretty fast system.
Their breasts are so big Tammy has started cutting them in half.