First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[Chicken girl 15]

Which direction do you recommend the cross for the Cx side. (Cx)x (?)
Or (?)x(Cx)

cx hens x ?roo. That's our plan any how. Because the cx roo just gets grotesquely big crazy fast.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I actually would try to use the hen for the CX side, A smaller rooster does less damage to the hen, of course that only matters in f1, Beyond that you are going to have huge birds.

Unless, you are bringing in a third line.

  I do not think it makes a lot of difference as the size and rate of growth which side is which. I know there are people that would argue with that and say the rooster is 75%,  but their are people that would say the opposite too. I have just not found a lot of difference.

If you want to hear something weird.  Remember when I first put this generation ( the first group) outside into their pen to "free range". I picked a black chick at random., and put in with them to "teach" them how to be chickens.

He has the body shape and size (almost) of a Toad!  He has no toad genetics in him. I have asked him why he looks so weird.   I told him DNA does not rub off the Toads to him.  I will try to get you a picture of him, if the fog goes away and it ever quits raining.  The bird does not look at all like his biological brothers and sisters. He is fed a skimpy amount of feed compared to my other birds. Just unexplainable to me.

toad? Ya lost me

 

[JRNash]

Chicken girl,Ralph has a naming system for subsequent generations of his Cx hybrids.lol

 

[JRNash]

cx hens x ?roo. That's our plan any how. Because the cx roo just gets grotesquely big crazy fast.

I haven't decided which breed of rooster to put over the hens. I have numerous breed hybrids to choose from

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I haven't decided which breed of rooster to put over the hens. I have numerous breed hybrids to choose from

our first attempt will be the NN. Ugly but fit what we want.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Chicken girl,Ralph has a naming system for subsequent generations of his Cx hybrids.lol

makes sense to me. I use colors. So far I'm just working with egg production, size and depth of brown without using Marans. So far it's in its first generation.

 

[JRNash]

Marans... pretty eggs,UGLYYYYY hybrids.lol

 

[duluthralphie]

Marans... pretty eggs,UGLYYYYY hybrids.lol

Hey I have Maran's but they are too young to lay eggs. I was going to breed them, but I might just make them into layers.

They are not the birds I expected them to be, plus my straight run was 5 roosters and 2 hens. Kind of ticked me off when I get 80% roosters on a autosexing breed. I think someone screwed me over... I might send them a gator in the mail.

 

[JRNash]

I didn't see any reason to continue with them

 

[Turk Raphael]

Chicken girl,Ralph has a naming system for subsequent generations of his Cx hybrids.lol

I speak just a bit of French and German so I caught on to it pretty fast...But if I'm off a bit, I'm not too proud to fire off a PM for clarity...jajajajajajajajaja