Cornish X - Laying like a champ!

[knjinnm]

Hi,
Any chicks from Big Bertha yet?

 

[Baybrio]

They look great!

 

[Mrs.ChickChick]

Wonderful! Are you seeing the growth rate of the Meat Kings with the offspring?

 

[aoxa]

Wonderful! Are you seeing the growth rate of the Meat Kings with the offspring?

Faster, and wider than normal heritage birds, but not nearly as fast as their mothers for sure. I am aiming for 12-14 weeks. Before sex hormones kick in and toughen them up. Both I kept are girls from the second generation. I am breeding them back to their father and continuing. This generation won't be processed

 

[knjinnm]

Yep, they are 6 weeks here

 

[aoxa]

I put 6 eggs in and 5 hatched. Sold 4 of them, because I didn't have enough mutts to fill her order. She is going to give me back a male if she gets one.

 

[aoxa]

Here she is now at 23 weeks. She has been laying for a while, because now she is broody. I didn't even realize she was laying because she does not have a big comb.

She's with some 8 week old CX in these photos.

 

[Melinda66]

This was my first year with chicks so of course I've made mistakes, but you may have answered a question for me. I started with 30 chicks, 4 runner ducks, and 5 boilers. I didn't know to keep the boilers separate from the others so I just raised them all together. Once they reached about 4 weeks, I put them all out in the chicken house (it's a 20x20 barn type thing made for chickens) I loved watching my boilers get so big and could easily tell them apart. I started them all out there in a child's swimming pool until they were big enough to get out if it on their own. Then I let them roam about the coop. So, they were all together, and every few days I would count my boilers... 5. Then one day I counted only 4. I have a couple white chickens but none of those were big enough for me to be sure it was a boiler. Could it be possible that one of my boilers stopped eating as much and therefore didn't get big like the others? If so, I now have a boiler out there with the rest if the chickens, enjoying a very big run and being treated like a laying hen. How can I tell the difference between my white rocks and a boiler? Btw, I only bought 2 white rocks but have 3 white chickens now....I read your post and am thinking I might still have a boiler out there. Lol (I'm. So green at this)

 

[LindaB220]

This was my first year with chicks so of course I've made mistakes, but you may have answered a question for me. I started with 30 chicks, 4 runner ducks, and 5 boilers. I didn't know to keep the boilers separate from the others so I just raised them all together. Once they reached about 4 weeks, I put them all out in the chicken house (it's a 20x20 barn type thing made for chickens) I loved watching my boilers get so big and could easily tell them apart. I started them all out there in a child's swimming pool until they were big enough to get out if it on their own. Then I let them roam about the coop. So, they were all together, and every few days I would count my boilers... 5. Then one day I counted only 4. I have a couple white chickens but none of those were big enough for me to be sure it was a boiler. Could it be possible that one of my boilers stopped eating as much and therefore didn't get big like the others? If so, I now have a boiler out there with the rest if the chickens, enjoying a very big run and being treated like a laying hen. How can I tell the difference between my white rocks and a boiler? Btw, I only bought 2 white rocks but have 3 white chickens now....I read your post and am thinking I might still have a boiler out there. Lol (I'm. So green at this)

Wow, what a problem. Just wait a little while and they will shoot up bigger than the others.

 

[chickenguy222]

Aoxa, is there any update on your cornish x birds?
I have 3, 6 week old cornish x pullets now currently at 1lb. All their sibling are at 5-6lbs. I am restricting the 3'pullets feed and am hoping they will make it to lay eggs. I can't have roosters where I am so they will just be for eggs, no future generations with them.