Fat Little Meat Chicks

Last week, we bought some Cornish Rock chicks from TSC that were probably less than a week old to raise for meat. We decided to keep them separate from the 2-3 week old chicks that Chris had picked up a few days earlier.

A week later, it was obvious the meat chicks were outgrowing their box, so this morning, I moved them into the big box with the other chicks. I could barely get my hand around their fat, little bodies.

It's hard to take good pictures under the light of the heat lamps, but do you see the two chicks that look like they are talking to each other? The speckled, black one is probably about two weeks older that the meat chick it is addressing and has nearly lost all it's chick fuzz. But I bet if I weighed them, the meat chick has it beat. It's crazy how the Cornish Rock hybrid can grow so much faster than other chickens given the same access to food and water.

And the ducks that were only a little bigger than the chicks when Chris got them all? Huge.