The Great Chixperiment Continues

It looks like the first round of our incubated eggs have finished hatching. Our live chick count is 12 Rhode Island Reds and 7 Cornish Cross. It looks like we've been successful with breeding a fast growing meat bird.

Here is a 5 day old RIR chick....weight is 2.4 ounces

And a 5 day old Cornish Cross...weight 3 ouncesThe CC has a much wider stance, thicker legs, and wider chest. Every CC chick that hatched kept the white color of their mothers. The rooster is a black Americana/RIR cross. These chicks are all within 3 days of each other in age. The largest of the red chicks hatched the same day as the white CC, you can already see a size difference.

On the left is a 5 day old CC.....and on the right is a CC that hatched this morning.

We started another round of eggs in the incubator and will keep incubating every one we get from the CC hens.