Best Chicken Mix Projects (Anyone who has done a project can post here)

[15littlem]

I tell you what would be neat, if someone could do a cornish crossed with a regular breed (ie RIR, Orp, etc.). I'm not talking about a Cornish rock cross, but something that could legitimately free range like a normal breed.

 

[Nimblefreckle]

I am going to try that if I can get my hands on some dark cornish.
I am also going to try crossing a cornish cross with a barred rock and see what comes of it.
I am trying to be able to breed a meat chick for my family so we don't have to buy them
and because of how fast the others grow. I have two cornish rock crosses from tractor supply and am feeding them just like I am feeding my silver laced wyandottes. So far they are almost three weeks old and not even twice the size of the wyandottes. Hopefully I can keep them small enough to breed from them at least once. I will post pics once I have some offspring to show.

 

[draye]

"I am going to try that if I can get my hands on some dark cornish.

I am also going to try crossing a cornish cross with a barred rock and see what comes of it."





You'll get black sex link chicks. Pullets will be black mostly and roosters will be barred.

 

[kfacres]

I tell you what would be neat, if someone could do a cornish crossed with a regular breed (ie RIR, Orp, etc.). I'm not talking about a Cornish rock cross, but something that could legitimately free range like a normal breed.

my cornish do that just fine. read my BYC page.

 

[kfacres]

I am going to try that if I can get my hands on some dark cornish.
I am also going to try crossing a cornish cross with a barred rock and see what comes of it.
I am trying to be able to breed a meat chick for my family so we don't have to buy them
and because of how fast the others grow. I have two cornish rock crosses from tractor supply and am feeding them just like I am feeding my silver laced wyandottes. So far they are almost three weeks old and not even twice the size of the wyandottes. Hopefully I can keep them small enough to breed from them at least once. I will post pics once I have some offspring to show.

You would be better of using my black laced red cornish birds, as opposed to the darks.

 

[15littlem]

What if you used Asil or some other oriental game fowl instead of Cornish? You could get more stature and width into the bird, amazing free range ability, better leg meat, and complete free range with the occasional feeding.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

the best way is to restricted feed... give them as much room to roam as u can... put the feed on one side of the pen and the water on the other side as far away as u can and still be within sight of each other... then u want to feed them for 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening... you want to do your best to make them exercise as much as possible... even with all that u will only get about 1 out of 10 to lay eggs... the other 9 out of 10 will still not be able to walk or will die of heart issues before they get old enough...

I am going to try that if I can get my hands on some dark cornish.
I am also going to try crossing a cornish cross with a barred rock and see what comes of it.
I am trying to be able to breed a meat chick for my family so we don't have to buy them
and because of how fast the others grow. I have two cornish rock crosses from tractor supply and am feeding them just like I am feeding my silver laced wyandottes. So far they are almost three weeks old and not even twice the size of the wyandottes. Hopefully I can keep them small enough to breed from them at least once. I will post pics once I have some offspring to show.

 

[troyer]

So do these lay really well?I like the looks of these.

They were very good layers with a medium egg.

 

[kfacres]

What if you used Asil or some other oriental game fowl instead of Cornish? You could get more stature and width into the bird, amazing free range ability, better leg meat, and complete free range with the occasional feeding.

Not true, you are confusing true Cornish, with Cornish Cross or CX meat birds.

They are NOT THE SAME, and should not be compared to each other,



One thing, off topic that really bugs me- is people who want to free range their birds with nothing supplimental, or minimal supplimental grain. People, muscle is protein, without protein, you'll not have any muscle. Sure, birds free ranging can get some nutrition, especially somewhere like my place where we have many other livestock for them to go around behind-- but in the general place where they have grass and bugs-- that's not enough to put meat on a leghorn, let alone a high maintaining, muscle bound breed---

everyone wants muscle, with no feed-- but physically- that cannot happen.. body needs nutrition.

 

[maryhysong]

Has anyone done a BRxBO or BOxBR? Or any crosses with Buff Orps?

I have some BO roo over hatchery BR.
Hatched in Nov, this pic taken in Jan.


These pics taken last week. The gold ones are girls and the silver ones were boys.




They started laying pullet bullets at 16 weeks. I love their coloring tho. A younger sister to these two has more solid black on her back with some gold shafting, but not the partridge pattern on the feathers. I will probably breed these to my EE boys for olivers