Cornish Thread

[Schipperkesue]

since when do we post exact threads on this and the red laced cornish project page. 

Duplication is getting redundant.

Hey! I am not following the red laced Cornish project page! I don't see what is posted there so please post here too!

 

[triplejfarms]

Hey! I am not following the red laced Cornish project page! I don't see what is posted there so please post here too!

i didnt see those other threads, thought this was the cornish thread!

 

[Cedarknob]

i didnt see those other threads, thought this was the cornish thread!

The project thread is in the Meat Bird section, and I sometimes post pictures of my meat bird project and/or my pure Cornish there, as my Cornish serve as both a self-sustaining meat flock and adding some body to the blue egg laying, dual purpose bird I'm working at.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/316007/red-laced-cornish-x-and-project-talk-pics-p-8/2560

There's an old Cornish thread here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/176991/cornish

and another here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/688233/white-cornish-standards

 

[big medicine]

Finally got a chance to sit down with the new Poultry Press, thought Cornish were very well represented among the show winners across the U.S.

 

[Cedarknob]

Finally got a chance to sit down with the new Poultry Press, thought Cornish were very well represented among the show winners across the U.S.

That's very good to hear, perhaps Cornish are making a come-back. I wish I could make a few shows. I suppose I should subscribe, as it's very difficult to find the show results on the internet.

I've often added whole corn to the feed in winter with no problems. This past week I started feeding it and on the second day I lost two WC pullets to impacted crops. [This was different than what I've called impacted crops in the past, which may have actually been sour crop. These two had their crops full of swollen kernels and one was backed up all the way up her throat; no chance to treat them as they died almost immediately and looked to be more like a case of choking to death. The younger pen, which I had wondered how well they could handle whole kernel corn, had no problems with it at all.]

 

[big medicine]

I had an old game hen who hid a nest this summer. I found it before she started brooding, waited till she spent her first night on the nest, and then switched them out with some of the BLR project eggs, when she came off in the morning. Any way she brought off 8 or 9 chicks, who spent all their time out ranging the yard, woods, and neighbors pasture, only coming in at night, or hard rain. I was throwing a little scratch their way, just in case bugging was scarce. That ol gal had those chicks cleaning up everything but the whole corn from day one, but she sure tried. Picking up a kernal, clucking, and dropping it in front of her. They were not very old at all before they were able to eat whole corn easily, much, much, sooner than their brooder raised siblings ever figured it out. So what I am getting around to is, unless they are very young, I doubt it was a physically blocked digestive tract thing by a too large single kernal. Plus your younger birds did ok. Maybe they foundered themselves.

 

[Cedarknob]

Yeah, impacted crop may not be the correct thing to call this. It appeared they just left their crumbles alone and had crammed down more whole kernel corn than they could handle. The one still living when I found them had her crop filled with whole kernels of corn and even backed up her throat, and she died as I lifted her out of the pen. The other, already dead, had a crop full of swollen corn, though I never thought to check her throat. [I dressed them both out, both looking for a problem and to cook them for chicken feed. I would have ate the one myself but had to leave her too long after she died.] My neighbor has agreed to sell me corn at market value, and has given me whatever is left in the auger hopper when he loads semi trailers. There's a huge savings there compared to what I have to pay, whether bagged or bulk. [The closest feed store charges $11.99 for a 50 lb bag of corn. ]

 

[Minniechickmama]

That is sort of odd, I had a couple of roos this fall who seemed to be choking when I found them. I went to check them over and they had their throats full of feed. I worked it down and stuck them by the waterer and they were fine after. It was like they had forgotten to drink to wash down their dry food. The first time it happened I thought it was weird. The second time it happened to a different bird it about blew my mind. It wasn't like there wasn't any water there either, there was plenty. I don't understand what would make them behave that way?

 

[chickened]

I have seen a bird suffocate from a full crop that extended up to the head. I have never fed whole corn but almost lost a bird from pelleted feed by suffocation. If they are super hungry they will overfill the crop.

 

[Minniechickmama]

The ones I had do this, one was on mash that is the consistency of corn meal, and the other was on crumbles. Both were males.