BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[lpatelski]

All my chickens have numbers, not names. But that is the best reason I've ever heard to name chickens.

Awe thanks, but they get numbers too. I developed the ZipChick numbering system. This year I am up to number 180.

 

[Beer can]

@lpatelski at how many weeks did your cornishX start laying?

 

[lpatelski]

@lpatelski at how many weeks did your cornishX start laying?

21 weeks

 

[Kassaundra]

My cross girls hatched on May 1, they should start laying any time now I hope. Just this week their combs have brightened sooo

Yesterday I was out clothing the nakeds for the cool front coming through and one of the silly cross girls was on top of the ground coop (4 foot high) they are huge, but still living normal chicken lives. I put her down b/c I didn't want her jumping down.

The nakeds can be sneaking to gender ID, the two young ones I've been thinking were likely girls, turns out one is but one is looking like a boy to me, Stripey Butt isn't going to like that at all.

 

[WPFarmstead]

Awe thanks, but they get numbers too. I developed the ZipChick numbering system. This year I am up to number 180.

That's pretty dang cool. I'll be ordering some next month. Do they fit on the regular and the small size zip ties? I like the small ones for chicks.

 

[Beer can]

21 weeks

With their abnormally quick growth was wondering. Figured they would lay at a normal time frame, just wasn't sure.
Another couple questions, do you keep the CX with the rooster, or just keep them together just long enough to assure fertile eggs?
Are your pure CX active/robust enough to keep in a all-flock setting, or do you keep them segregated?
Just wondering cause I plan on adding CX to my NN.

 

[lpatelski]

That's pretty dang cool. I'll be ordering some next month. Do they fit on the regular and the small size zip ties? I like the small ones for chicks.

They go from small all the way up to large zips.

 

[Kusanar]

My cross girls hatched on May 1, they should start laying any time now I hope.  Just this week their combs have brightened sooo   Yesterday I was out clothing the nakeds for the cool front coming through and one of the silly cross girls was on top of the ground coop (4 foot high) they are huge, but still living normal chicken lives.  I put her down b/c I didn't want her jumping down. 

The nakeds can be sneaking to gender ID, the two young ones I've been thinking were likely girls, turns out one is but one is looking like a boy to me, Stripey Butt isn't going to like that at all.

Naked necks or completely naked? You are the one with Rudy right? Just wondering how many of the little naked things were running around now

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

I have a question for the NN/ genetics people. I know that the F1 cross of a regular chicken to a NN results in a naked neck chick, that does not have those hairs (philoplumes?). Has anyone noticed if this trait carries through to the next generation, if you cross the F1 back to a regular chicken, are there fewer or none of these? I'm wondering if it's at all possible to have a fully feathered chicken that has no philoplumes. The last cockerel we roasted was almost as hairy as a raccoon.

In the meantime I think I will start doing what @lpatelski does and skin them.

 

[NanaKat]

My cross girls hatched on May 1, they should start laying any time now I hope.  Just this week their combs have brightened sooo   Yesterday I was out clothing the nakeds for the cool front coming through and one of the silly cross girls was on top of the ground coop (4 foot high) they are huge, but still living normal chicken lives.  I put her down b/c I didn't want her jumping down. 

The nakeds can be sneaking to gender ID, the two young ones I've been thinking were likely girls, turns out one is but one is looking like a boy to me, Stripey Butt isn't going to like that at all.

Naked necks or completely naked? You are the one with Rudy right? Just wondering how many of the little naked things were running around now

@Kassaundra you need to post some of your fashion photos...like you posted in the OKIE thread.