do true cornish health problems?

[sydney13]

ive heard that the true cornish breed is just as healthy as any other breed unlike the cornishX but iv also heard that the true cornish will need lots of vitamin supplements if they free range. Is it true that a cornish is healthy and do they really need supplements? Do cornish ever get heart and leg problems like the cornish X? would a cornish eat so much that it would become very fat (i not keeping them to eat)?

 

[cassie]

Cornish are regular chickens. They do not need special care. The cornsish x meat chickens do.

 

[uhuh555]

Cornish x is like a brick layer that had 3 extra cups of coffee and is laying brick twice as fast as he used to. If his mud man makes and carries to him all the mud he needs at this faster pace but his brick man can’t carry the need brick for the faster pace. So the brick lay compensates with bigger mud joints for the lack of bricks in the wall. Now the wall is weaker and soon falls apart for the lack of proper mud to brick ratios needed for a strong wall.

Seem that the best solution would get another brick carrier.

With the cornish x you’ll need double the “bricks” as you would need for the “normal” bird. Cornish x grow in 7 to 8 weeks where the regular bird takes 17-20 weeks. No rocket science here!

 

[Junkmanme]

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THAT seems to me to be an EXCELLENT Anology !!! BUT the "brick carriers" are all "spoken for" with Cornish X.

From what I have READ, the STANDARD Cornish has no such problems. Pretty good chickens, I've heard....but similar to "Games" in some ways.

-Junkmanme-

 

[dancingbear]

Standard Cornish are strong, healthy birds, hardy as all get-out, no special care needed. The only negative I've heard is that exhibition strains seem to have some fertility problems. My non-exhibition dark Cornish are very fertile, but the body type is off a little, they're not quite the size they should be, but they're very healthy and active, and the hens are great brooders/mothers.

There's no comparison between them, and the Cornish-Rock-X meat birds.

This question comes up about once or twice a week, but I've never seen anybody ever ask this about Plymouth Rocks. I wonder why that is?

 

[SteveH]

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I"d love to see a picture of your Cornish , I'll bet they're pretty healthy looking .
From what I've read , the exhibition Cornish do have some special needs and require a quality well balanced diet to prevent joint problems , accompanied by free ranging or large pens to encourage the roos to excersize their leg and thigh joints as hocks tend to stiffen in some strains . Some of the more exaggerated show strains have to be artificially inseminated due to their extreem body types .
Actually I emailed a lady tonight that is offering trios of large fowl White Cornish said to be off exhibition lines . If I get some pics and they look good , I believe I'll buy a trio .

 

[dancingbear]

My camera is being flaky lately, if I can get it to work right, I take some pics. I only have 2 DC's right now, 1 hen, one roo. She's a little thing, for a supposedly LF Cornish, he's a good sized bird, not as big as some I've seen, but healthy.

 

[petrelline]

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That is because the Plymouth Rock is perfect.

(Actually its more likely that everyone just forgets the other half of the cross in cornish cross. The CX sure does look a whole lot more like a cornish than it does a rock.)