First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[JRNash]

Other than that I'd love to get some of your birds. I believe the heat is hitting the dangerous levels around here

 

[Turk Raphael]

Ralph i was just talking to JMF Quail farms yesterday,We are getting high temps here all most a month earlier than normal. They told me if i wasn't so close (2hrs) they would either cancel or postpone my order till fall.
I was really impressed that the man took the time to call me. The high heat is just too damaging to eggs and chicks. An unairconditioned vehicle can see temps of over 180 degrees while sitting in the sun closed up around here. Unopened coke can exploded the other day

That's why I live in Kentucky. It gets pretty darned hot around here sometimes but we do get a cool breeze now and again.

I spent some time in Texas...once or twice, depending who's telling the story. Around Waco for about 5 months and then 4 delicious months in Dallas. I could have lived there, for thousands of reasons!!!

 

[JRNash]

Dallas is around 5hrs from me.
They don't have to deal with as much humidity as we get down here closer to the coast

 

[JRNash]

I can't wait for the fall to get here!!! I think when it does I'm going to cull my flock back to around 50 birds.

 

[Turk Raphael]

I can't wait for the fall to get here!!! I think when it does I'm going to cull my flock back to around 50 birds.

I had planned to have about (no more) than 23 birds through the Summer and Fall, cutting back to something like 15 to 18 to Winter over. I arrived in WV early yesterday to find that I'd be carting back 7 hefty chicks and more Chanteclers than I even know yet. If you don't change your plans, fate will often enough change them for you.

 

[macgro7]

Broiler chicks update. Two weeks old:

 

[duluthralphie]

I need to get pictures of mine. They are getting huge.

Today is Bert's pedicure day. I am going to try and do a major trim on his spurs. They are getting way too long. Hopefully, the hens will thank me.

I am thinking 5 out of 6 of Bert's babies are roosters. Not what I wanted.

 

[Molpet]

I think I will have to cull my CX pullet (16 wks)..
The same age BR cockerel jumped her and since then she has been limping on the right, I have her in a 4x8 pen so we will see if she gets any better.

She had been matting with my roo just find, but no eggs, The BR belly button got out of the grow out pen as I opened to feed and jumped on her from 4 ft away. I grabbed him off and threw him back in the pen. She was still squatting w/her right leg sticking out when I got back.. I helped her up and think it's her thigh/hip joint...At least the other cx I processed, that the same BR attack and was limping afterwards, was real easy to separate the thigh from the carcass
I guess I should have processed him then but I was thinking of a BR /CX cross when he was older... I guess more meat for the freezer and there is always next year

 

[Molpet]

I need to get pictures of mine. They are getting huge.

Today is Bert's pedicure day. I am going to try and do a major trim on his spurs. They are getting way too long. Hopefully, the hens will thank me.

I am thinking 5 out of 6 of Bert's babies are roosters. Not what I wanted.

shame so many roos

 

[Dave C]

Over here there is always a lot of debates about which parent gives what quality to there offspring.
In general it is said that the male passes on egg laying and female body shape / meat yield.
But if this was entirely the case we would never use Cornish males in our crosses only Cornish hens.

What you guys think ?