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Where's everyone gone ?? Probably on Facebook :rolleyes: Here's some updates on my keepers at 10 weeks

Some Cornish at 7 weeks Sold a lot this year but these are keepers Like there shape

This threads gone a bit quiet!!! How's everyone's chicks and growers coming on? Here is big Blue, I have some nice sons of him to choose from for next year.

Very nice shape to them :thumbsup

Very nice WLR bantams I don't breed for any particular lacing quality, just utility. And if a nice bird hatched out, result.

This is one of mine in the Broody Coop, so not looking her best. We call them Jubilee in the Uk.

Mrs C will get her kitchen back tomorrow as I have 24 Cornish chicks and 20 of my French Sasso chicks to deliver in the morning. They have been camped out in the kitchen for the last week and she's getting a bit sick of them now

I have 2 Marans in there now.

Two of my breeding pens are long and thin but that's only because i have a stock fence running alongside my garden fence so made scence to utilise it. It's about 150' long by 4' wide and holds 2 pens. These birds are allowed to free range every other day. My other 2 fixed breeding pens are...

This is the broody coop I use I've put the Cuckoo Marans in there first as I might let 2 of the Cornish hatch out some eggs.

Yes my broody coop is a wire bottomed cage. I use a dog crate with the bottom tray removed Stack it up on a brick on each corner so it's very uncomfortable for them and the cool air gets underneath them. After about 3 days they stop hissing at you, then I put them back in the breeding pen a...

They will be in my broody coop by tonight. So hopefully it will be broken by the end of the week.

Typical, I've got a few orders for chicks now which equals 110 chicks in total and the hens are deciding to go broody

Got 18 chicks out so far of a batch of 30.

Chicks due to hatch tomorrow. Got a few pippin now

Yes I have Dark, Blue and Jubilee in my pen so will get all colours. The advised way to breed them is use a Dark Rooster over all colours to improve or keep the desired lacing. The blue is supposed to be darker then mine (which mine would be if I used a Dark Rooster) but I'm breeding for a...

Few pics of my Blue Cornish breeding pen in the sunshine.

Well I set 33 eggs and only 3 are clear tonight when I candled them. I'll take that

Put my first batch of Cornish eggs In today, so fingers crossed. They are laying very well this year and good sized eggs as well. Probably 6 eggs each a week on average.

If I were you I would keep away from hatchery stock. Try to find a private breeder breeding for utility qualities not show. Start with the best quality you can, You will have to pay more initially but will be cheaper in the long run. And you can earn money back selling surplus stock.