I call the Cornish Cross meat birds "freaks of nature". They are the best tasting, most vile, filthy creatures ever engineered!
Hips will break and hearts will asplode because they grow so fast. We were going o try the red rangers or what ever they are. They grow a little slower and take an extra week or two to make weight and act like real chickens. Not like these lazy things that park at the feeder. Red ranger arrival dates didn't fit with our schedule, so we are left with the freaks of nature.
A frind recalls growing up on the farm in Kansas and he and his brother would whack birds two-at-a-time trying to get the runners to collide.
They'd fall over laughing when it would happen.
Randy - I'm going to have to remember the milk jug trick and try that.