BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

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3/4 Dark Cornish (Bob-50%DC/50%WCR & Marion-DC)
day 11
The weight is not correct. My husband dropped my scale and now it just runs what ever number. We had a visitor yesterday, no harm no fowl!
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Okay I pulled the battery and did a restart 183.4g
 
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I got a couple of Cornish x female chicks. I'm hoping to keep them alive to egg laying age and mate them w/ Stripey Butt. Their offspring should all be carriers, and hopefully give some size and faster growing genes to the nakeds. If I breed carrier to carrier I should get 50% nakeds and 50% carriers. I plan on keeping only the largest male and a couple of the largest females to breed back. If I get a large naked I may get a couple of more CX to add more of the larger faster growing genes back in, but that would be next year at the earliest. (since my first gen will only be carriers and not nakeds)

I picked out 2 of the larger females and 2 of the smaller females (thinking the larger ones may be harder to keep alive that long, but really hoping for those big size genes since there is A LOT of room for growth in my line of nakeds) They are 3 weeks old the same age as a group of youngsters I already had so they integrated well.

Hoping they will be ready to lay around the end of August.

First goal keep the cx females alive to egg laying age.
 
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Kassaundra said:
I got a couple of Cornish x female chicks. I'm hoping to keep them alive to egg laying age and mate them w/ Stripey Butt. Their offspring should all be carriers, and hopefully give some size and faster growing genes to the nakeds. If I breed carrier to carrier I should get 50% nakeds and 50% carriers. I plan on keeping only the largest male and a couple of the largest females to breed back. If I get a large naked I may get a couple of more CX to add more of the larger faster growing genes back in, but that would be next year at the earliest. (since my first gen will only be carriers and not nakeds)

I picked out 2 of the larger females and 2 of the smaller females (thinking the larger ones may be harder to keep alive that long, but really hoping for those big size genes since there is A LOT of room for growth in my line of nakeds) They are 3 weeks old the same age as a group of youngsters I already had so they integrated well.

Hoping they will be ready to lay around the end of August.

First goal keep the cx females alive to egg laying age.
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The CX pullets I raised out last year started laying at 16 weeks and I butchered the behemoths out at 10 months. Each leg quarter was over 2.5# and the breasts, filleted, were over 4.5#. It was surprisingly easy to raise them out to an older age - just really, really limit the feed. There was one point where mine were growing so fast that I would toss them out in the alpaca pasture every morning and then bring them into the coop at night after the layers had had their fill of feed. The CX only got whatever bits the layers missed in the coop bedding and they had to hunt for it. Once their growth slowed I started letting them eat with the layers again.

One issue I had with mine is that I was getting a lot of double yolks from them (89g and heavier eggs!) and I had some issues getting the normal eggs to hatch out. There were a lot that were dead in the shell without pipping AND they were under broodies. In the end I only managed one live chick who grew out to be a white cockerel. So, I guess what I'm saying is ask how lpatelski does it!
 
bramblefir said:
The CX pullets I raised out last year started laying at 16 weeks and I butchered the behemoths out at 10 months. Each leg quarter was over 2.5# and the breasts, filleted, were over 4.5#. It was surprisingly easy to raise them out to an older age - just really, really limit the feed. There was one point where mine were growing so fast that I would toss them out in the alpaca pasture every morning and then bring them into the coop at night after the layers had had their fill of feed. The CX only got whatever bits the layers missed in the coop bedding and they had to hunt for it. Once their growth slowed I started letting them eat with the layers again.

One issue I had with mine is that I was getting a lot of double yolks from them (89g and heavier eggs!) and I had some issues getting the normal eggs to hatch out. There were a lot that were dead in the shell without pipping AND they were under broodies. In the end I only managed one live chick who grew out to be a white cockerel. So, I guess what I'm saying is ask how lpatelski does it!
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So @lpatelski any pointers you care to share?
 
I have done weights this week on anyone. I'll be weighing my 3 Hybrid Pekins before butchering them this weekend. Right now they're enjoying the good weather.


Chickenwise, my 5 bantams are pretty much fully fledged. The hen was in the nest laying an egg today and now sleeps on the highest roost which they haven't quite figured out how to get up to yet. They do still hang around her during the day though.


Two of the five are cockerels, a Blue Millefleur OEGB and a Porcelain d'Uccle. The OEGB cockerel is especially feisty and has been very busy putting the much, much larger English Orpington cockerels in their place. I suppose that's his Game showing. It's pretty funny.


Once the bantam cockerels are fertilizing the girls I'll be collecting eggs from these 3 hens for hatching:

Silver Spangled Hamburg


SSH x Blue Andalusian


SSH x Welsummer

My intent is to eventually end up with a bantam-sized chicken that's a great layer and doesn't go broody constantly.
 

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