First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[CCsChickens]

I think rainbow socks would have a certain eye opening quality for my kids. I may have to get them for myself for xmas.

I am sorry to here about your CRD problems. Do you have lots of ventilation in the coop?

I have no ISA's but I have Australorps, I love them. I keep thinking I should post a picture of my black Australorp rooster on here. He was not much as a baby, there was nothing impressive about him but in the last 2 months he has blossomed.


As I understand it egg color is controlled by genetics. It is way more complicated than simply crossing 2 cx's and getting a frog. Whatever color a chicken starts laying eggs at is the color they will have. Some people say they will brighten or darken over time but they will be essentially the same color.

I have a vast array of colors from my girls. Which is a problem for me, I have a hard time not sorting them, by color gradient, by size or by date laid. OCD can be a .....Never mind If I said the word I would probably get another nasty letter ( See I can learn M Mom!)

I actually don't have them in a coop yet! I'm naughty ahaha but I've been interstate and they're about 4 months so still small. At them moment during the daytime they get let out into a large temporary pen which is chicken wire bordering a big area around some palm trees. And at night we put mesh on top and a portable carrier cage inside and they all huddle in for night nights ahaha. But once I get home (in a few days!) Dad has promised that building of the magnificent coop will start!! Fingers crossed it will turn out nice, I've heard ventilation is important when managing CRD.

 

[duluthralphie]

How did you get CRD if your chickens are outside in open air?

Is it possible you have misdiagnosed the problem?

If I lived where palm trees grow, My chickens would have a tent!!!!


If you have alligators like Linda does, Beware gators love fresh chicken!


I had a lucky guinea hen make it through the night. The ( and I will not write ^%$& ) thing refused to go into the coop. I spent 20 minutes trying to get her in. I then let her stay out, thinking I would catch her when she was roosting and put her sorry butt back in the coop....

The plan was great, the execution, not so much. There was a full moon last night. For those of you living where palm trees are, a full moon on a clear night with snow covered ground, means it is bright enough to read "war and peace" in one sitting with no eye strain. The guinea saw me coming even at midnight! She flew away and ran from me, I could not corner her, Nothing worked.


I gave up went to bed depress and let major melancholy set in. I awoke and ran to the window to see she made it through the night. (DANG)..



BTW it was so light here last night the CX's refused to go into their igloo! I ran them in twice, They came back out. They appear to have made the night too...

 

[holm25]

Ralphie- not all our hens went in last night either. Ussualy they stay huddled when you try to catch them oh no they wanted to stay out it took a while but we got them.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie- not all our hens went in last night either. Ussualy they stay huddled when you try to catch them oh no they wanted to stay out it took a while but we got them.

I am glad to hear this,,,,,, I thought it was just my birds. You would think evolution would have taught prey birds to seek safety on a bright full moon night when any predator can see like it is daylight out.


Had it been a guinea rooster I would not have tried to catch him. but I want all the hens I can keep.

 

[holm25]

Do guinea hens lay year round or seasonal.

 

[duluthralphie]

From what I have read seasonal. BUT I am wondering if one of the eggs I have now is from a guinea.

I am how to tell.

I will be making them a covered run in a couple months and keeping the breeders locked up/

I cannot even find a "good" picture of a guinea egg.

I wish I had a good camera and not just an IPhone the color on the iPhone never comes through right.

I read the eggs were more pointy and more pink. I have pink and pointy but not in the same egg:

Here is best I can do:







The color is closer to correct on black background. BTW I have no white egg layers. (chickens)


The one on the left is pink, the one on the right is nearly white.

The bottom one is the one on the left, on white background

 

[JessicaThistle]

That's Maggie she is a Black Sex Link. I got her to replace the first Maggie that I thought was a barred rock hen, turns out He was a cuckoo maran. He went back to the rooster bin and I got her.

 

[holm25]

Just wondering because there is a person selling keets and she has a batch that should hatch any day now.

 

[duluthralphie]

That bird looks like an EE to me and not a BSL.

Look at the olive colored feet. I could be wrong, but Those do not look like my BSL hens.



NOTE:

I looked at pictures here and lots have BSL that look like that one... Mine are browner on the hens.

 

[duluthralphie]

Just wondering because there is a person selling keets and she has a batch that should hatch any day now.

Interesting.

The eggs are the reason I asked that to start with in another thread. I wondered if my artificial light has screwed up the guineas egg laying season too. They live with my chickens.