Anyone order just male Cornish X?

[ElioraImmanuel]

I'm considering ordering just males. Anyone do this and what should I know before I do this? TIA!

 

[booker81]

I decided to try my hand at feather sexing CX, and have a dozen males now

Not much to do, they just eat and poop. They've started chest bumping and doing boy stuff like that, but they run out of energy too fast LOL. Not much else I can think of!

 

[journey11]

I get straight run and divide my males from the females at 5 weeks because I finish off with 20% chick starter for their last 2 weeks of life. Although the males do exhibit a little more aggression (sometimes they rush me when I'm giving them their feed), mostly they are fat and lazy and too young to have enough hormones to fight with each other. Males turn out quicker, between 6 and 7 weeks. They tend to be a little bigger too. I factor my costs on my flock as a whole, both male and female, so I can't say for sure, but I think your costs would be just a bit lower with the males since you don't keep them around as long.

 

[Looking4ewes]

I've ordered all males before. Once they got a bit aggressive at feeding, but soon learned that a swift kick was coming their way when they crowded and/or pecked me. They grew well and ate fine.

 

[Dogfish]

Second batch of straight males. A few pennies more at the start, but MUCH bigger birds in the end..

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I ordered all males this time as my summer is tightly scheduled this year and I wanted just one butcher date. Three weeks down 3 or 4 to go!

 

[mstricer]

I have all males, they are five weeks. I am suspecting at least one is a girl due to the size difference. My next batch for 4/11 is straight run.

 

[bigredfeather]

I typically order str8 run because we like to have a variety of sizes to offer our customers. There have been a few times I ordered all cockerals. Generally, the males will be about 1 week ahead of the pullets. This year I am getting 110 chicks per delivery. We will process the boys at 7 weeks and the girls at 8 weeks.

 

[blueskylen]

i order straight run, as we have one of the smaller george forman rotissieries and it only holds up to a 4 lb chicken - the males are just too big for it - some of the females are to big also. i have raised them for a few neighbors,and 2 out of 3 want a smaller bird too. the biggest males are cut in half for freezing.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

I always order males only. Much larger but I always seem to get a few females anyway, which is OK.