BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[DesertChic]

Give him a little stuffed animal it calms down my lonely chicks

I tried that. He imprinted on me so he's not satisfied with the stuffed animal.

 

[DesertChic]

Feed stores should have chicks in....get him a companion or two?

Two other eggs have pipped so he should have company soon. My dogs have been volunteering to "play" with him but he just pecks them in the nose.

 

[lpatelski]

First chick of the year. This was two weeks ago. This cockerel is now ready to be a Cornish game dinner at 44 days of age. I'll get a pic tomorrow on the scale live.
His Mom "Lavenia" has laid 11 eggs in a row before taking a break. HATCHED ON 8/26/2015

Since 1/5/2016 when Lavenia laid her first egg @ 132 days(18.9 weeks) she has laid fifty eggs over a period of 73 days. I have upset and moved her twice. Of the 42 eggs I have attempted to hatch from her I have had only 3 yolkers the first week she was laying, one quit from the first batch, 8 fully developed but did not hatch(my fault most likely-mal-positioned), and I have 18 live chicks and 11 in the incubator, and 4 waiting to go in. If you project her capacity to produce potential chicks over the year. She lays 1 egg every 1.46 days - that is a potential of 250 eggs per year(I know she'll molt so she stops in October at 205 eggs). Now hatch rate. I am going to throw out the results of the first two batches of eggs since she was a pullet and Redmen was a first time Cock bird. She has a hatch rate of 16 out of 19 eggs or 84% x 205 = 172 chicks per year. Is that counting your chickens before they're hatched?








Chicks in time-out while the tank is cleaned.






Like my laundry bottle chick feeder hack?

 

[lpatelski]

A better photo of Harley, who absolutely will NOT tolerate me putting him/her down. Poor lonely little chick!

I put a mirror in with mine.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

lpatelski, please refresh my memory- all these lovely chicks came originally (the birds you started with) from one Cornish crossed with a commercial meat rock/cornish ? They are lovely, you are getting some interesting colours too.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I put a mirror in with mine.

Why's there water look yellow mine is usually brown because I use malasas in there water for the first few days

 

[stryker]

Just have to show all. I finally broke my Broody hen. I had 2 but all these chicks didn't like the other hen.

 

[NanaKat]

Big rivers don't seen to slow them down too much either.

All I can say is that is one bonus of living on this rock there is no way they will get here unless someone with lower mental capacity brings them here All and the same the more I hear about this stuff the more I say we are horrible caretakers of this planet Any woo dose anyone have bees and do you have any problems with your chickens and the bees

We have had bees several times over the years...had 7 hives at one time. No problems between bees and chickens. Put the hives in a pen in a pasture just behind the garden. Near enough to tend and far enough from the chickens. The four panel pen kept the cows away from the bees.

What is all over him that looks like his fuzz all broken off on him

The fuzz is from him. As they dry they sort of 'shed' everything that was stuck to them just after they hatched and it turns into a dander. He's just hours old here.

A better photo of Harley, who absolutely will NOT tolerate me putting him/her down. Poor lonely little chick!

A soft toothbrush helps clean the dried fluids from hatch...fluffing up the down so the chick stays warm. A mirror gives a chick a image with which to interact. A feather duster hung just on the bottom of the brooder gives the chick a mother to suggest under.

 

[lpatelski]

lpatelski, please refresh my memory- all these lovely chicks came originally (the birds you started with) from one Cornish crossed with a commercial meat rock/cornish ? They are lovely, you are getting some interesting colours too.

Yes, I have one Dark Cornish Rooster BamBam

Crossed with two at the time, now one White Cornish Rock cross pullets:

I kept back a F1 pullet "Lavenia" 50/50 cross- Lavender splash. She was started with Redmen(50/50), and now is with BamBam making 3/4 Dark Cornish.

Two F1 Cockerels, now one

Bob

Redmen


Bob was crossed back to a Dark Cornish "Marion" to make 3/4 Dark Cornish.

I also Crossed Bob back to the White Cornish Rock hen to make some 3/4 White Cornish rock 1/4 Dark Cornish.
So next year at the end of the year, I will be crossing a 3/4 Dark Cornish to the 3/4 White Cornish Rocks to get 50/50 again and set some characteristics.

 

[hellbender]

Yes, I have one Dark Cornish Rooster BamBam

Crossed with two at the time, now one White Cornish Rock cross pullets:

I kept back a F1 pullet "Lavenia" 50/50 cross- Lavender splash. She was started with Redmen(50/50), and now is with BamBam making 3/4 Dark Cornish.

Two F1 Cockerels, now one

Bob

Redmen


Bob was crossed back to a Dark Cornish "Marion" to make 3/4 Dark Cornish.

I also Crossed Bob back to the White Cornish Rock hen to make some 3/4 White Cornish rock 1/4 Dark Cornish.
So next year at the end of the year, I will be crossing a 3/4 Dark Cornish to the 3/4 White Cornish Rocks to get 50/50 again and set some characteristics.

I thinking of getting something (.75) from Bob in the near future,