Cornish Thread

[CanadianBuckeye]

If I may ask...why was this cock bird inferior to your other male stock? Maybe bone density? He appears to have good muscling. Do you have any pictures of your better stock that you lost?

I agree, if this guy was a cull, the rest were fantastic! I'd be very, very happy with him! Very nice.

 

[Dave C]

If I may ask...why was this cock bird inferior to your other male stock? Maybe bone density? He appears to have good muscling. Do you have any pictures of your better stock that you lost?

Of course you can ask no problem mate ha.

Last year I kept the 3 best cock birds back until about 16 weeks, don't get me wrong all 3 were good and we're worth re homing instead of culling.

The main reason that I didn't choose this bird was the pale colour of his legs !!
His stature, frame and shape were as good as the other 2, my 3rd choice possibly wasn't as big but my first choice was an absolute beauty

But sorry I don't really have any pics of him after this point.

 

[JRNash]

Dave, can't eat color....

 

[JRNash]

My Cx are coming along fine,they are feeling well enough to fight with the project birds. That's a first for me. The Cx have allways been the most docile.

 

[Dave C]

Dave, can't eat color....

Of course your right JR, but when you have 3 birds almost as good as each other there has to be something to separate them, I don't breed to show standards / confirmations but with equally productive birds something has to give.

Productivity, confirmation and vitality always take priority in my breeding pen.

 

[JRNash]

Sometimes a bird just catches your eye...I've had a couple like that.They tasted good

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Why is it always the best? I have 92 chicks, four of them were hatchery cornish cockerels that I wanted to select one of. I'd ordered ten pullets and five cockerels, got four cockerels. One in particular was far superior to the rest, twice the size of the other cockerels at 3 weeks and wouldn't you know it? He was the one I found dead, out of all those chicks. Not sure why he died, but the rest are all fine. It almost seems to be a given.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

I'm looking at the remaining cornish cockerels, none look like keepers (even for hatchery stock! LOL). The pullets are twice as big, some of those look nice (for my purposes).

 

[JRNash]

That's a key reason for allways ordering more than you need

 

[lpatelski]

I'm looking at the remaining cornish cockerels, none look like keepers (even for hatchery stock! LOL). The pullets are twice as big, some of those look nice (for my purposes).

Yes at 3 weeks my pullets and cockerels were neck and neck. Both the best doing cockerels died with in days of each other at maturity. All my stock has come from my two pullets. I culled one as she just kept getting larger and laying few good eggs - loads of double yolks and wavy eggs.









I believe Lavenia and Bob are from her. I think it is easier to keep the pullets.Limit feed them from 4 weeks on up to 16 weeks. Then feed normally - not full feed. They should start laying 19 to 23 weeks. My stock always weighed more than this chart. They were not breeder stock, they are the end product of the female line and the male line. I did not do the skip a day, I just could not; so I fed every day. Yes they were hungry. I gave them things to do, stuff to peck at to keep busy. It was winter so they were in the barn. When spring came I moved them to a large pen so they could get exercise and most importantly light to start the egg laying process.

Best of luck. I love they way my chicks turned out.