Best start to 2021!! Cornish layers?! 🤔

[OllieBollie]

My Cornish cross didn't lay tell she was over a years old. She lays eggs so big they barely fit in the egg carton or the incubator! Do yours lay in a nest boxes? Keep the girls active. Let them free range and make sur they don't just sit around and eat. They can breed naturally with light weight Roos. My hen breeds with a stander NN.

They are quite active already but we make sure they wander around their whole run or yard everyday. I scatter their food in different places so they explore and get exercise. I figured our girls eggs would be big too, very surprised they were smaller eggs.

 

[OllieBollie]

My hens take turn laying through out the day............I have five laying hens, 2 Australorp, 2 Jersey Giant, and 1 Buff Orpington. They lay 5 eggs on one day and 3 eggs on another, they alternate between 5 and 3.

Wow! That’s a lot of eggs. To me it’s a lot anyway. Lol. Do they lay every day then? Is there ever a day they don’t lay anything?

 

[CNJ]

Wow! That’s a lot of eggs. To me it’s a lot anyway. Lol. Do they lay every day then? Is there ever a day they don’t lay anything?

I suspect the 2 Australorps and Buff Orpington are laying more than the Jersey Giant. They all started laying at 5 months old. Their eggs were very small at the beginning, but got bigger as they grew heavier. I'd say they were close to 4 lbs at 5 months and are now around 6 lbs at 7 months.

I find eggs daily, I can also tell which breed the egg came from by the size, shape and color of the eggs.

The Jersey Giant's eggs are bigger, the Buff Orpington's eggs are round, and the Australorp eggs are slightly darker and smaller. Since there is only one Buff Orpington, I see only one round egg. Two big eggs and 2 medium eggs on five egg days, and usually 2 medium eggs and one round egg on 3 egg days, so the Buff Orpington is keeping up with the Australorps.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

They are quite active already but we make sure they wander around their whole run or yard everyday. I scatter their food in different places so they explore and get exercise. I figured our girls eggs would be big too, very surprised they were smaller eggs.

Are yours bantam Cornishx or standard? Do you have pictures of them?

 

[HappyDuckie]

Our eggs were brown. What color did you girl lay?

Mine was also brown. She cracked hers though.

 

[black_cat]

Cornish crosses are generally bred for meat, so I don't know much about their egg production. I have noticed that most chickens tend to lay in the morning, but I have found the occasional egg later in the day.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Your Cornish lay more in the summer. But you won't be getting many eggs. Here are some of my eggs.

 

[CNJ]

Your Cornish lay more in the summer. But you won't be getting many eggs. Here are some of my eggs.View attachment 2472357

Have you tried hatching them? A dinosaur may come out of the big egg...........

 

[JadeFarms]

My last Cornish X Laid 3 to 4 times a week. She lived to 2 1/2 and died of a predator. I love them they’re so sweet. Mines a year, not laying yet but will soon! My first one laid white/cream eggs.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Have you tried hatching them? A dinosaur may come out of the big egg...........

Yeah. I got 5 chicks. There HUGE compared to my tiny bantam chicks! They are way healthier than their mom. The legs and wings a better but their still fat and heavy.