Thunder chickens

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Last week I bought some new chicks ... 6 pullets

and 17 broilers. I've never bought broilers before,

but they were cheap (free with purchase of other stuff).

When we've had roosters and butchered them they were

so skinny it seemed hardly worth it to pluck them, so

I figured I'm not a good " meat " grower. But, I was told

the broilers are a lot different.

And how! It's been a week now, and the broilers are

maybe half a pound already. They are huge (for chicks) ...

big huge feet and this big ol' body, and all they do is

eat and sleep. The pullets though, look like little birds ... they

have their wing feathers and are fluttering around,

which is how I recall chickens being.

Anyone else raise these big " thunder chickens " ?

I've never seen anything grow this fast ... it's weird ...

the girl at the coop said her boyfriend raised one that

ended up being 20 pounds.

-- Heidi Jean