First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[holm25]

Double K good luck on the ducks took 3 hours to butcher four. They are a pain.

 

[JessicaThistle]

Ralph: I wish that I'd had the same experience with my CX just doing the lazy pecking order. My roos were brutal to each other. I had to separate 3 of the roos for a week before processing because they were fighting so badly they were making each other bloody. They were just way too darn spunky for their own good. I separated them out and they were the first to be processed when the time came. I didn't have any of that in the first batch so I sure hope it was an isolated incident.

The CX hen that I have kept is pretty happy living with the silkies. It is hilarious how much bigger she is than them but one of them keeps her in line. I really need to post a pick of them together because it is quite sweet.

 

[duluthralphie]

I know this is way off subject, BUT look at the weird egg I got this morning. It looks like a snake egg long and skinny.

I am going to post on the egg threads to see if anyone has any idea what kind of chicken lays this...

 

[holm25]

It is SNOWING here!! : )

 

[holm25]

I know this is way off subject, BUT look at the weird egg I got this morning. It looks like a snake egg long and skinny. I am going to post on the egg threads to see if anyone has any idea what kind of chicken lays this...

Our Australorp lays eggs like that.

 

[holm25]

Medium snow

 

[LindaB220]

Jessica, I just looked at Plaids profile, she has not been on in three weeks!

Hopefully everything is okay.

I really do not want to process the turkey. I will take my chances on her surviving. She is one of three hens I have from the spring for next years hatch. Do you know if I breed a slate blue hen to a slate blue tom will I still get a frog?


I have the injured hen in the chicken coop, separated from the chickens, in the ICU area with a heat lamp over her. I doubt the heat lamp is needed, but I thought she might want the extra warmth if she gets a fever and to comfort her. I am thinking of putting Ethel and her last remaining baby in the ICU with her for company. It is going to be so different not having all my birds running around the yard, greeting and following me everywhere I go.

I am going to let my CX's out again today. I know they could be taken by the evil incarnate eagle, but they seem to do a real good job of hiding. I would park my truck near them but I doubt they could fit under it, they are so big. (a joke)

Last night when I put them to bed they all come running like always but this time one of them decided he had to perch on a 1x12 I have sitting along side the brooder (narrow edge down and up) It was so funny as he tried to perch on the 1x12 he is so big and not all that coordinated. He did do a fair job of sitting on it before jumping down and going into the brooder. The funny thing was every CX that followed him tried sitting on the same 1x12 for a few seconds. It must have been a CX challenge. None of the others did as well as he did. The last one was a fairly large hen, she jumped up on the board. flapped her wings to get her balance. Put her wings by her side as if to show the world she could do it. And fell head first onto the ground!

It gave me a laugh after the sh*^^y day I had had.

Yesterday morning, I had to lift my tractor because one of the bigger roosters seemed to be stuck in the tractor and I thought he was too big to get through the even enlarged door. He played me!

Last night he had no trouble going into the tractor for food!


I like all my birds but I really think the CX's are my favorite, their personalities are just so sweet.

I do not know if any of you have keep yours long enough to see them try to establish a pecking order. That is fun to watch also, unlike the other birds the CX's bump chest and finish the ritual in about .00000003 seconds. They are so gentle it appears they are ashamed to actually fight for position. ( having 25 lb CX's does give one a different prospective.) *


















* a poetic license invoked

Keep up the good work. Sorry for your bad day. I'm with Jessica on this, if nobody is around.

 

[duluthralphie]

COOL!!

I have some black australorps from my package!!

Thanks..no need to post on the other thread!

Feels like it could snow here today. I just got in from a couple hours outside and am frozen to my core. Real damp out with snow type clouds....

( a dark low level of cumulus clouds that resemble stratus clouds in some respects)

 

[duluthralphie]

Any snow is too much before Halloween!

 

[holm25]

COOL!!

I have some black australorps from my package!!

Thanks..no need to post on the other thread!

Feels like it could snow here today.  I just got in from a couple hours outside and am frozen to my core. Real damp out with snow type clouds....

( a dark low level of cumulus clouds that resemble stratus clouds in some respects)

Only one of our hens lay long snaky eggs other lays fat bouncy ball looking ones. Would not be surprised if you got snow Ralph system is going towards you I think. My brother and I built a fence for our milk not that big even and we got wet and we were freezing.