First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[duluthralphie]

Does anyone have pics of their cremettes? Interested in what they look like. All Google shows me are recipes lol

Creamettes!!!!

 

[raisinemright]

Are they a dual purpose? Very attractive chicken.

 

[LindaB220]

Ralphie- about your cremettes- I has creamettes too and I hatched out 2 girls.

I'm about to fill my incubator again because I just won a charity drawing for 6+ ccl hatching eggs to pick up today or tomorrow, along with my other ccl eggs that may or may not be pure as my bean line ayam cemani rooster has been with them lately

And 2 days ago 3 of my 5 ccl got out into my very urban neighborhood. I got 2 back immediately, but the 3rd one who is now named Amelia took much more time and effort to get back home.

One neighbor said she was high up in a pine tree. Roofing guys across the street were laughing at me as I walked around in the rain in my slippers saying "Chicken! Bawk bawk bawk! Chicken!" For several hours.

I know what "pollo loco " means.

Another neighbor texted my bf a picture of THE chicken in a yard 2 houses down, which ended up with both me & the bf chasing it down the street, up the alley 2 x BEFORE she ran through the hole in the back fence and straight up to the entrance of the enclosed run she calls home.

My cx are 7-8 weeks old today. I think. They are half the size of my largest muscovy drake. Freezer camp is set for next weekend. Yay.

Comical and exciting!!! I hope running in the rain doesn't do a number on you. Take care of yourself.

 

[LindaB220]

Ralph, what breeds make up the cremettes Or are they just full Crested Cream Legbar.?

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralph, what breeds make up the cremettes Or are they just full Crested Cream Legbar.?

It is just a nickname I have adopted for the Cream Legbars.

 

[duluthralphie]

Are they a dual purpose? Very attractive chicken.

Way too small for dual purpose, I am not sure they serve any purpose. I have not even got an egg from them in 10 days.

 

[raisinemright]

I think I scored on some old wooden poultry crates, and 1- six hole nesting box & 1- eight hole steel nesting box.
I'm paying $50 for 4 of the crates and $100 for the pair of nesting boxes.
I've been looking for the nesting boxes for some time now and the crates I could tell we're old but in great shape. I needed something to transport my CX to the processer and why not crates that were meant for shipping birds!!
The crates look like this design.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think I scored on some old wooden poultry crates, and 1- six hole nesting box & 1- eight hole steel nesting box.
I'm paying $50 for 4 of the crates and $100 for the pair of nesting boxes.
I've been looking for the nesting boxes for some time now and the crates I could tell we're old but in great shape. I needed something to transport my CX to the processer and why not crates that were meant for shipping birds!!
The crates look like this design.

Sounds like a deal to me..

I have not seen an old poultry cage like that in decades. There use to be some here 50 years ago, but they are all gone now.


How can you not process your own birds? What will use as an excuse to consume vast quantities of Vodka if you do not do your own?

 

[raisinemright]

Sounds like a deal to me..

I have not seen an old poultry cage like that in decades. There use to be some here 50 years ago, but they are all gone now.


How can you not process your own birds? What will use as an excuse to consume vast quantities of Vodka if you do not do your own?

I have done my own birds (a lot).. But for $2 a head I'm not bothering with large amounts. And when I say large amounts I mean more than 2-3 lol

 

[duluthralphie]

But,,but...but what is your excuse to drink then?