{"id":17,"date":"2008-09-13T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-12-28T20:49:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:49:45","slug":"cornish-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/cornish-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first batch of Cornish Cross came in a couple of days ago. \u00a0We used the same hatchery that gave us the Red Broilers after a weak performance from another hatchery. \u00a0The Red Broilers are going to take 12 weeks&#8230;.way too long at today&#8217;s feed costs. \u00a0The Cornish Cross is &#8216;the&#8217; meat birds in the industry, in fact, it is unlikely you have ever tasted another breed over the last 20 years. \u00a0The chicks came in smaller but all seemingly healthy. \u00a0Unfortunately, we have lost 4 of 87 so far. \u00a0One was never able to open it&#8217;s eyes and never made it&#8217;s way to feed. \u00a0We could finger water the little guy for a while, but the feed was too much. \u00a0We have lost 3 others from unknown causes (meaning we didn&#8217;t really notice anything going wrong). \u00a0These were daytime deaths and with the warm weather we doubt suffocation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the chicks are very mellow compared to the Red Broilers. \u00a0When the cover comes up for a quick peek they do not panic, in fact, they seem more curious than terrified. \u00a0We will see what they act like in a couple of days. \u00a0Reading up on these guys this may be the most active they will get. \u00a0It is all about the belly from here on out for these guys. \u00a0We are hoping to process this batch in 8 weeks- luckily we have more orders than birds right now so we should be able to get good feedback on the differences between the two breeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"Cornish Cross Broilers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img00149.jpg\" alt=\"Cornish Cross Broilers\" width=\"336\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img00149.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img00149-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first batch of Cornish Cross came in a couple of days ago. \u00a0We used the same hatchery that gave us the Red Broilers after a weak performance from another hatchery. \u00a0The Red Broilers are going to take 12 weeks&#8230;.way too long at today&#8217;s feed costs. \u00a0The Cornish Cross is &#8216;the&#8217; meat birds in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,13,15,11,14],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-broiler-chickens","tag-cornish-cross","tag-grass-fed","tag-meat-birds","tag-pastured-poultry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}