archeryrob
Songster
My dark cornish have been free ranging in the afternoons the past month and a half just like our layers now. Apparently they are getting really, really good at it! We have been really noticing the last week the cornish look to have lumps, like tumors in their necks. Roosters are the worst. Hens aren't as noticeable. The crop is swollen like they swallowed a bouncy ball.
At last weeks weigh in #2 rooster became #1 and felt like he had a small golf ball stuck in his throat. Watching #2 free range with hens around the house today and he had a definite lump on the bottom of the throat before the breast leaning to one side. I saw other roosters with the same lump leaning the other way, just not as big.
Is this just typical of a heritage type cornish to gorge and swell the crop like this? I can check them in the morning and I bet it is gone.
At last weeks weigh in #2 rooster became #1 and felt like he had a small golf ball stuck in his throat. Watching #2 free range with hens around the house today and he had a definite lump on the bottom of the throat before the breast leaning to one side. I saw other roosters with the same lump leaning the other way, just not as big.
Is this just typical of a heritage type cornish to gorge and swell the crop like this? I can check them in the morning and I bet it is gone.