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Just as the title says, my female Cornish Cross laid an egg. I've been keeping her inside my mudroom ever since I noticed a big gash thanks to the rooster trying to mount her. Well to my surprise tonight when I went to clean the bedding and change out her water, I found her laying next to a egg...

He did grow his feathers back, all of them! I ended up keeping him, and he looks very striking now. The damage he took from that raccoon went to the bone, so I am constantly surprised by how well he recovered. 3-4 did end up being pullets/hens and laid gorgeously blue eggs. I choose to sell them...

Good to hear of those who take in the TSC stragglers. On my last trip, I noticed the pekin ducks were marked at $1.00 each. I miss my ducks but I'm staying firm on keeping the mud makers out of the coop for a while. I did try to convince my mother to raise them, but no go.

He's been a great Rooster, and I'm not getting rid of him. But I don't want the possibility of him breeding next year. I don't have the space to do split flocks, which means he's a risk of potentially breeding with daughters and granddaughters. Not to mention I'm liking how big my Light Brahma...

Despite one broody hen trying to add more, my flock is done multiplying for the year (fingers crossed). I have instead been attempting to reduce and selectively pick who I will keep and who will go. Not the easiest task, I have difficulty deciding which of my gorgeous roosters I will keep, and I...

I'll get some ordered to keep on hand. She never laid an egg yesterday but she was walking normally and full of spunk. I'll check her again this afternoon, but I didn't feel any impactions in her last night.

I had no idea that was such a thing!

I do not and I don't know how I would get any for her. Poultry antibiotics require prescriptions now, correct?

The soft egg looked like it was mostly intact as she was pulling out, but it broke during the process of her beak tugging on it. There were no signs last night or this morning of any whites or yolk around her vent. I kept her inside the house in a brooder cage that doubles as a sick bay. She's...

Young hen that yesterday was running around just fine. Laying eggs daily, I know cause she's the only blue egg layer. Today I came home to her laying in the grass and pulling something from her vent and eating it. It looked like a soft egg. Next too her was a warm freshly laid egg. She's since...

Thank you so much for your response. It really highlighted several points I need to focus on. My Roosters from my hatch are definitely looking like the Bielefelder. They by far have much more depth of flavor and a higher ratio of dark meat, which is why I don't just raise CornishX. I will have...

They are all breeding together as a barnyard flock. A few are the same parents as last year, with two additional roosters and hens (chicken math) to add more diversity to my flock, so they could be putting off a leaner gene. I am holding back some hens and one or two new roosters that appear to...

I'm hopeful the corn diet and not free ranging will help. This isn't the first time I've butchered my birds, but it's is the first time I've butchered CornishX. I was definitely flabbergasted on how much bigger they were than my slow growing mixed birds.

This year and last year I used combination of chick starter meatbird crumble, I did have CornishX chicks raised with my own hatch. The older birds get high protein layer and scratch grain. The two roos came out around 4lbs. My roosters last year were average of 5lbs. Between the one pound...

I have a few roosters I've transferred a couple of weeks ago to a smaller enclosure to give my main flock a break and to hopefully plump them up for butchering. They range in ages from 7 months to 4 months old. I processed two of the older roosters Sunday that looked pretty big, only to find...