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I'm with Hellbender with regards to the masculity/ aggressive/ fertility correlation. I'll go one step further towards what I think he is trying to get across. The effects are not seen in the first generation, but it's in the 2nd 3rd or more. I can testify that by keeping the physically good...

Remember, Cornish people don't really care about eggs. They only care which ones are fertile and actually hatch.... LOL

I know, but as I have already stated over and over, not everyone participating on this site is as understanding and realistic minded as I am. Yes, there are GMO occuring, but it is to fill a very specific void and create something much needed. To modify these chickens isn't needed, can't be...

Genetic selection at it's finest. Genetic selection has created these birds, and can continue to 'improve' them further. This is the exact reason why we have miniature Jerseys and Herefords, as well as the original Chianina and Belgium Blue cattle. Exact reasons why we have Jumbo Cortnix...

I wouldn't say plastic... it's taken them 60 years to get this far. Genetic selection is an amazing thing. Nothing else quite like it.

Likewise, these birds aren't bred to lay either. yes, they'll lay large eggs, of course, they'll also lay small ones, and flat ones, and round ones, and double yolked ones, and even triple yolked ones. they'll lay an egg of every shape and size, and every kind of yolk. Most will be infertile...

You have confused the fact that Cornish and Cornish rock butcher birds are related genetically. They are, but it's no closer than humans are from Adam and eve. I too agree that the skeletal makeup of Cornish is the limiting factor. Typically in other species heavy muscled is linked with a...

Cornish eggs in general are very small, and actually almost perfectly round. If you are expecting large, or jumbo eggs, better find something new to expect. I don't see what the size of the egg has to do with anything in the Cornish breed, obviously nobody else has either and that's why...

I will vouch for big med and his birds.. Having met him, used his genetics, and bred my own from them- they are a bird that is nearly unmatched for a backyard sustainable flock, IMO. That was my marketing promo when we had them. I always felt the BLR color was the way I wanted to go, but had...

That's the point with white cornish- they are all recessive. However, the 'white' in White Laced Red Cornish, are typically dominant 'white'. I have experienced birds that have resulted in being 'almost' all white- and I believe they actually had one copy of dominate white and one that was...

This is what I said.."My other point is feeding meat and bone meal to chickens makes about as much sense as feeding poultry litter to steers" Who said I was against feeding either feed source? In visiting the Joslin cattle processing facility they actually take the rumen content out and feed...

Experience and a keen eye lead me to believe that the great majority of people cannot formulate nor develop their own rations. In my daily duties I see it far too often- people who think that buying the cheapest thing out there will suffice. Nothing is more important in successful livestock...

Way to be progressive...

If you're not a nutritionist, and don't have a degree, or really any classes either-- then I suggest letting the professionals formulate rations.

It's beef that they are most worried about... but I think it's illegal to feed any meat by products to ruminates. I also don't know that just anyone can go and buy a block of by product off the shelf. The sale of it is more regulated. If you reread my post.. it says words like "most"

I'd say that theory has merit. I know that soybean meal and linseed are basically interchangable. However linseed has one extra amino acid that helps with fleece quality. I can walk into a flock and tell the ones feed g linseed and those on soybean meal...

It's clear you live in Canada. Meat and bone meal have been outlawed for the most part in the USA for most livestock consumption. There are plenty of other alternatives for protein. Protein is protein, and any of them will work. I always strived to feed my breeder birds about 20 CP diets...

multiple species as well.

As I have said before, it's doubtful that you have anything that is "Mr. Right". Tried and true breeders will keep multiple pens, trying to mix and match 'pieces' and parts. Everything I consider to be a 'tool', and as long as matched up with the right partner can really develop into a great...

It's usually about April 20 to Aug 15 for laying around here for me.