Hello, She is new to the Cornish breed.My Bantams lay a small to medium egg (never a large or jumbo).Wait a few months the eggs will get larger as they get older.Your Buckeyes can lay the big ones for you ,there you go CanadianBuckeye.Mine lay mostly medium.
Try to use that best rooster If he has more right things with him and remember the hen will have her genetics there too.(even with the not so good comb). its always a crap shoot with Cornish. :)
Hi, If you heat and bring light in the coops in winter, any breed of chicken is going to increase egg production and roosters will breed more often ,for sure. Cornish don't do as well as other breeds with cold weather( being a tight feather breed). I get the occasional egg Dec to Feb here. Mine...
It is true the closer to the SOP birds the more trouble. Pick young Cockerels with wide combs(there have been study's showing higher fertility with wider combs in the Cornish).I'm setting at 80 to 85 percent fertility.We breed for shorter legs,wider bodies and short beaks .All work against the...
Hi guys and gals, check out a Facebook site (Cornish poultry SOP). I have belonged to them for a couple years. I have bought birds from some of the breeder too. It is an excellent site for information on anything Cornish,LF and Bantam. Friendly people too. thanks Larry
If you want a meat bird buy a Cornish cross, Or a red broiler (a little slower growing but can walk well at weeks old. A pure Cornish will take a lot longer and take more feed to grow out. I raise Cornish chickens.They are an older Breed and not the factory type birds.I had Cornish cross birds...
If you want to try this for getting rid of broody.Run a bucket of cold water.Take your broody hen and put her in the water about half way up the body(getting the whole bottom half submerged of the hen) for about 3 mins.This method works about 85% of the time. Good luck:)
It is a single laced ,a silver laced wyndotte and a dark Cornish.We do get some double lacing but try and cross it with a partial laced bird. Bud has some awesome looking birds at 4 th generation.
Haha, nice to see more people with Cornish.I raise the Bantam Dark Cornish out of some really good show stock. I also am working with a friend Bud Alston (Budsbirds.com) on a silver laced Cornish bantam.I have 2nd generation and he is on the 4th generation. I have had bantams for 35 years (off...