The mature birds lay pretty good actually, in their first and second year i got at least one a day from most of them, a lot of eggs,,,,
The first batch is only 14 weeksish, so dont think quite to laying stage, will see though because im going to clear the original flock out in a week or so...
Archeryrob,,
Perfect, was looking for confirmation, was exactly what we were thinking on the timing, i like having an egg flock, was what i started with, had chosen dark cornish because they were good foragers and were bigger birds, original flock isnt laying as much now so incubated the new...
Hi there,,,,
I am also doing a dark cornish experiment,
Well more of a madman chicken farm!
Hatched out 3 batches of dark cornish chicks with my incubator, so now i have 21 mixed at 14 weeks about 29 at 9 weeksish, and 20 at 4 weeks about,
How many weeks are you thinking they need to be before...