So I touched base here before Christmas, then things got real busy real fast. I have had bantam Cornish for a couple years, and scouted out some large fowl last month. Here is one of the adult roosters. I have some youngsters from another breeder but no pictures yet.
So I touched base here before Christmas, then things got real busy real fast. I have had bantam Cornish for a couple years, and scouted out some large fowl last month. Here is one of the adult roosters. I have some youngsters from another breeder but no pictures yet.
where do you keep your other cornish sue? mine are in my red coop with a heater, i keep it about +2 in there.... mine seem fine, waiting for my pullets to start laying so i can get incubating
Our winters aren't as extreme as yours, but mine live without heat with days here that seldom rise much above 0 on the C scale during the winter. They have three sided, tarp or plywood shelters in which to get out of the wind, snow, or freezing rain, but no heat or artificial lighting. So far the coldest night has been around 5 F [-15 C]. I had two Cornish that laid a few eggs in Dec,, which went to the 'bator in hopes of hatching some with a tendency to lay during the winter months. I am skeptical about hatching any; my past experience has been that the cockerels have drops in both libido and fertility in cold months, plus the eggs were pretty chilled when I gathered them.................................. so far I've only had about 50% of the eggs from my project pen [which are all F1 crosses of Ameraucana over commercial broilers, soft feathered, and fair layers in the winter] develop, and none from the pens where they were under a pure Cornish male.
