Cornish Thread

[silkielover5]

 Could have set you up if you were looking for large fowl.  Sold all the solid blues/blacks today with the exception of a blue cockerel.

Thanks but I have no room for large fowl! I wish

 

[silkielover5]

Do

I raise blues and blue laced red cornish bantams

do you sell eggs?

 

[Minniechickmama]

Just had a second dinner from a lovely young culled cockerel DC. MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm!

 

[Nava]

Well, I just hatched my first DC chick and I tought, well I think I'm allowed to post here.

I got bantams, I'm hoping to raise them for meat, i know they are bantams but I'm the only one that eats meat here, so that's why I went bantams.

I don't know who's line I got, all I know is I bought the pair in a swap they are pretty heavy, and I'm happy with them.

Now I Just have to figure out how long it takes for them to grow and be butchered, ill learn as I go, with what I read here too.

Thanks.

 

[rebel yell]

I got 12 LF in the bator now, cant wait till they hatch !!!!! Congrats, Nava, Where did you get your eggs from ?

 

[Nava]

I did not get eggs, I got a pair at a swap. And they been giving me eggs to hatch

 

[Minniechickmama]

Well, I just hatched my first DC chick and I tought, well I think I'm allowed to post here.

I got bantams, I'm hoping to raise them for meat, i know they are bantams but I'm the only one that eats meat here, so that's why I went bantams.

I don't know who's line I got, all I know is I bought the pair in a swap they are pretty heavy, and I'm happy with them.

Now I Just have to figure out how long it takes for them to grow and be butchered, ill learn as I go, with what I read here too.

Thanks.

OH NO!!!!!!! Now you'll be making them Naked Neck Dark Cornish!!!!!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Well, I just hatched my first DC chick and I tought, well I think I'm allowed to post here.

I got bantams, I'm hoping to raise them for meat, i know they are bantams but I'm the only one that eats meat here, so that's why I went bantams.

I don't know who's line I got, all I know is I bought the pair in a swap they are pretty heavy, and I'm happy with them.

Now I Just have to figure out how long it takes for them to grow and be butchered, ill learn as I go, with what I read here too.

Thanks.

Seriously, dear, WELCOME to the Cornish thread! I think you will love your little DCs. They should be ready to butcher for one person in about 4 months and have a really nice bird for a meal or two, I think. However, I have never raised the bantams to be sure about that one. I just ate one that was about a 4 month LF DC and he weighed about 3+ pounds dressed. And he was SO tasty!

 

[kfacres]

Seriously, dear, WELCOME to the Cornish thread! I think you will love your little DCs. They should be ready to butcher for one person in about 4 months and have a really nice bird for a meal or two, I think. However, I have never raised the bantams to be sure about that one. I just ate one that was about a 4 month LF DC and he weighed about 3+ pounds dressed. And he was SO tasty!

they are world's faster maturing that the LF birds, I would think full grown by 4 at a max. Depends on your appetite, enough meat for one might push it.

 

[brahmabreeder]

I posted this on the cochin thread but I started thinking this would be a better place for what I need. Here's what I put: Do any of you guys do artificial insemination with your chickens? I'm trying to breed a LF brahma to a silkie but they are too big for the little silkie hen. I tried doing it but apparently I don't know what I am doing. I can't get the males stuff. I need to know what technique to use. So if any of you guys do this please share with me how to go about this.