Cornish Roaster

So far so goodIf you want to succeed with cornishx and other meat chickens and turkeys and fowl, order and religiously use the packet of “broiler booster” mcmurray recommend when you buy meat chickens, you can order it separately too. I’ll never raise poultry or fowl without using it again… update: if you are not having success with this particular line of Cornish cross, then it’s YOU who is not doing something right. My first order this year was for 25, got 26, just butchered the 20th today, I’ll do the last 6 next week, every single one survived. I ordered over 60 more in the next month, so I’m not raising them in extreme summer heat. These are not “set it and forget it” type chickens, you must be vigilant and take proper care of them for them to do well. I don’t know which strain these cornishx are but I really like them, I’ve ordered cornishcross from all different places and gotten all different strains, but this one is my new go to meat chicken. McMurray job is to sell us chickens and get em to us alive, they excell in this, but after 48hr the rest is up to us, it ain’t the chicken that’s failing…

Bad batch?Good luck getting them to survive.
We followed chick instructions to the letter.
It’s possible these birds are just a hit or miss but I sure wish I knew that before I bought them.
We have raised different chickens before with 100% surivival rate. We have bent over backwards to keep these birds alive but to no avail. It’s ridiculous and disappointing.