A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

[DemeterAD9]

I would guess this too, he seems to lack the dominant trait of feathered legs that marans have.

In this thread a CX started laying at 17 weeks old.

I wasn’t too sure how dominant/recessive feathered legs were so I figured best not to go off that. I should look into it though, I’ve got a couple pullets with clean legs who I was hoping were from the maran but now I’m second guessing it This would help me sort through them though and figure out who will stay/go. The BJG rooster was a pathetically built bird that I could hardly get my relatively small hand inside of to gut.

I very well may end up culling this cockerel anyways. There’s a handful of little guys running around that my broodies hatched out, one being from the same SLW hen and 2 or 3 who may carry the blue egg gene. Would be cool to get some colored egger meat birds.

 

[Molpet]

I may try again to keep a CX pullet this year. I'm going to keep anything I get out of her and mix and match with current stock.

Promising 8 weeks pullet on bale

Trying to get away from a meat mutt hen

 

[Skyeknight]

Do both of you weigh your CX pullets to see if they don't become too heavy? At the moment I weigh mine weekly to see if I should alter the amount of feed I give them. I have two 13 week old Ross 308 and two 16 week old Hubbard JA757, all of them are around 3.3 kg.

But honestly I have no real idea if they are on "target" so to speak, as there isn't really any weight data on older CX.

 

[Molpet]

Do both of you weigh your CX pullets to see if they don't become too heavy? At the moment I weigh mine weekly to see if I should alter the amount of feed I give them. I have two 13 week old Ross 308 and two 16 week old Hubbard JA757, all of them are around 3.3 kg.

But honestly I have no real idea if they are on "target" so to speak, as there isn't really any weight data on older CX.

I don't handle my birds because I became attached and it was harder to dispatch. So no I don't weigh them until after dispatching.

 

[DemeterAD9]

Do both of you weigh your CX pullets to see if they don't become too heavy? At the moment I weigh mine weekly to see if I should alter the amount of feed I give them. I have two 13 week old Ross 308 and two 16 week old Hubbard JA757, all of them are around 3.3 kg.

But honestly I have no real idea if they are on "target" so to speak, as there isn't really any weight data on older CX.

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. Right now if I had to guess I'd say Chunky probably weighs about 9lbs