BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Mini Meat]

@lpatelski Your cockerel, is he the commercial type Cornish X or a white cornish?

 

[lpatelski]

Mom is a commercial type Murray McMurray "Cornish Roaster"
Dad is a Pure Dark Cornish

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

lpatelskii, what is your ultimate goal for your birds? I checked my white rock/cornish commercial hybrid weight guide, for a 3 week cockerel, it's 0.8 kg, for a pullet, 0.7 kg. If big bird keeps putting on weight at the same rate, he should be around 663 grams at 3 weeks. That's amazing.

 

[DesertChic]

I have broody turkeys that I can't let sit yet. I keep taking the eggs, so one dragged a pecan into the nest. She sat on it for several days before I tossed it out.

I have on broody with such a fondness for golf balls that she actually rolled the blue egg out of the nest and moved two golf balls from neighboring nesting boxes in.

 

[lpatelski]

0.663kg is right on track for a commercial stock pullet. My hope is to raise healthy chickens that grow and mature bit faster than heritage. I process early for game hens. I need the body proportioned with meat at a younger age.

This little guy was 35.8 oz or 1014.9 g processed weight without skin @ 48 days.
Sorry, wrong bird...
This one was 38.3 oz or 1085.8 processed weight without the skin @ 42 days.

Sort of like the Beefmaster of the chicken world. I do not care what color it is. I am going for peacomb. I like the look of the Dark Cornish head. Much more pleasing than the commercial bird.

I plucked the birds below, but I usually skin them. I can process a bird in 3 minutes skinning.

 

[Mini Meat]

I feel kinda awkward about this but... I got my thread started.

I would love some input from you folks.

Link is in my sig.

Thanks

 

[gevshiba]

I have on broody with such a fondness for golf balls that she actually rolled the blue egg out of the nest and moved two golf balls from neighboring nesting boxes in.

Maybe give her blue golf balls and she won't notice the blue egg.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

0.663kg is right on track for a commercial stock pullet. My hope is to raise healthy chickens that grow and mature bit faster than heritage. I process early for game hens. I need the body proportioned with meat at a younger age.

This little guy was 35.8 oz or 1014.9 g processed weight without skin @ 48 days.
Sorry, wrong bird...
This one was 38.3 oz or 1085.8 processed weight without the skin @ 42 days.

Sort of like the Beefmaster of the chicken world. I do not care what color it is. I am going for peacomb. I like the look of the Dark Cornish head. Much more pleasing than the commercial bird.

I plucked the birds below, but I usually skin them. I can process a bird in 3 minutes skinning.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those look about as perfect as they could possibly be!!!!!!!

 

[varidgerunner]

Those are some tasty looking birds. You know, you don't have to tie the legs. You can cut around the vent, then make a slit at the end of the breast to pull the guts out leaving two hole. Stick the end of the legs through the slit and out the vent hole, no string required. If you want to be fancy.

 

[lpatelski]

Those are some tasty looking birds. You know, you don't have to tie the legs. You can cut around the vent, then make a slit at the end of the breast to pull the guts out leaving two hole. Stick the end of the legs through the slit and out the vent hole, no string required. If you want to be fancy.

Thank you for the tip. I usually do a cut to slip the legs through, but for these I had stuffed them so full that I even had to use an orange skin and tie the legs to hold in the goodies.