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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Egg number 5 was laid, which means it’s good enough for me to give them to a broody. If she lays another tomorrow and/or the next day I’ll also give it to mom. I may have put an OE egg with them, just because I really want a roo from this particular hen and so far I’ve got 4 pullets. Broody...
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    Anyone else's diamond dutchess lay eggs yet?

    My diamond duchess is laying at about 16-17 weeks old. It and one of my own hatched EE X BJG started laying around the same time so I’m not sure which is which. These two were laid yesterday. My bantam EE lays eggs bigger than these! These two were laid a few days ago and one was a double...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Chunky has been laying fairly consistently which is surprising for a meat bird. So far I have found 5 eggs, the dog found another before I could crawl under the coop for it. The first egg was tiny so I am excluding it from my collection. I’m thinking of aiming for 6 eggs now simply because my...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Another new layer or two, laying a shade of green. For the life of me I cannot remember if one of these was collected yesterday or both from today. Either the blue EE pullet tripled the size of her first egg or someone else is laying, possibly both. Anyways, another egg from Chunky, up to 3...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Down to 58. Culled the black LF mix pullet who had leg issues. I tried figuring out what was wrong with her but couldn’t find much internally. I did notice the tendons on the drumsticks looked thicker than usual and possibly bruised. Could be why she couldn’t walk or found it too painful. Poor...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Came from Meyer so she should be Ross 308 or Cobb 500.
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    New egg again! Guessing the tiny blue/green one is from the blue EE X BJG with muffs as I’ve seen her in the nest box a few times now, 17 weeks today. Thought it was a fairy egg but upon candling it looks to have a yolk in there. 2 small tinted ones, assuming from Chunky, compared to the large...
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    Dwarfism in chickens?

    Most will chalk it up to failure to thrive. Mom probably knew something was up with it and singled it out as animals tend to do with odd individuals. Could be a deficiency of some sort starting way back from when it hatched. Could be a genetic abnormality like dwarfism too but who knows? I’m...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I think Chunky has laid her first egg(s). Found one in the run and one under the coop the next day where she tends to hang out most often. They are pretty average sized for a pullet, skin toned with vertical markings. Heavier bloom makes them look more pinkish. Compared to my best layer on the...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    An update on the mutant scalloped summer squash blooms. Here is a fresh male blossom (left) compared to a regular yellow summer squash (right), all that is visually different is the structure of the center where the nectar is. I couldn’t be bothered to find a flower diagram to give proper names...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Oh you know I'll post more if anything else happens! Ya'll are the only people who will appreciate this oddity. If more keep popping up I likely will give them a taste. I did a scary google search on hermaphroditic squash blossoms and going to google images was a mistake. I did find someone...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Seeing more and more plants starting to produce. So far I've harvested zucchini, purple bush beans, and cucumbers. Will be starting to set aside the cucumbers for making sun pickles with the dill hopefully before it goes to seed. I've got to say, this is the best pickle patch I've grown in a...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    A pullet has laid her first egg, not 100% on who but I would guess it was Chunky as I saw her being suspicious and the bantam cockerel was showing her a nice corner under the lean-to. Found it in the run near the water trough. Size and color comparison and yes I dropped the blue egg. Also got...
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    Egg turning frequency vs equal timing

    Yes, if you make sure you rotate an odd number this will prevent the egg from sitting on the same side for those longer gaps between turning.
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    Who's your daddy?

    Most likely the silver deathlayer is the dad, at least according to this calculator. Currently it looks like a girl to me. http://kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    16 weeks for the chicks I hatched. Just saw the blue EE pullet hanging out in a nest box. Here she is with her mom Buckeye Diamond duchess, nice red comb Crested cream legbar, she is smaller than expected Golden cuckoo maran Meyer freebie EE Bantam cockerel who has been getting bullied by...
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    Incubating Shipped Turkey Eggs (Tips?)

    7 weeks old now. Letting them mingle with the chickens as they will eventually end up cohabitating at some point. So far they know to leave the Roos alone but the white one does like to chase around the younger birds. Both of them were trying to gobble when a metal grinder was being used. I...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I was weighing my group but once they hit about 6lbs they struggled too much and I didn't want to stress them out. At some point I'd like to make a sort of cloth sling with handles on either end that I can wrap a bird up in and hook to a hanging scale for easier and less stressful weighing...
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    Ten weeks Old - Pullets?

    Both look to be girls to me.
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    Twin Pheasant Egg (DOA)

    I know it happens but I just find it interesting to see it in a game species. Chickens and ducks, even quail I’m not too surprised to see but turkeys and pheasants it seems much less common.
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