i traditionally look at a wing to sex a day oled chick.(the method of splaying the wing and checking the rows of feathers. one tall row with a short row in between is a female and twotall rows is a male.) but i recently came upon a new method. when you lift your chick up by the head, if the legs...
does anyone have a favcorite diet for keeping a cornish x relatively lean? i want 2 start my own strain with some tsc cornish chicks i picked up earlier. do you guys hand mix your feed for this purpose?
i went to tsc yesterday and got chicks identical to that. they told me they were cornish rocks. if they do turn out to be meat birds, you cab always keep them on a diet. i have had success with this
sweet!! i just hatched out some more and the majority of them are the same coloration! i guess that busy lil rooster had a dominate gene in him somwhere
okay, so i generally run barred cochins now but for a while i also had a black cochin bantam cock. i just hatched about 100 eggs and i came out with one of the little dudes lookin a lil different than the others. hes balack with a white throat goin down through his belly to his tail and he has...