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Hi everyone! We're doing our first run of CX this year, just 5 pullets for now. I'm actually hoping to keep them alive long enough to breed to my Langshan cock. However, if their health starts suffering I'll butcher them out.
Currently they are 2 weeks old and are being raised with a variety of breeds of other pullets. We moved them out into the coop with the adult flock earlier this week and they are very happy at all the extra space to scratch and fly. Our adults are very, very easy-going and have never offered to bother any chicks in the past. They're completely ignoring the new batch of chicks.
We keep the food nearby, but let them run out completely between AM and PM feedings. Waterers are scattered all over the coop and they have to walk to get to any of them. They're on a 20% chick starter, then will move onto a 19% all-purpose with soaked alfalfa pellets, and finally onto a 15% layer ration with soaked alfalfa pellets. They'll also be encouraged to free-range with the rest of the flock, get kitchen and garden scraps, and clean up grain spilled by our larger livestock.
They remind me of big dogs that think they're lapdogs.
I have no idea it was stuck to her head when we helped her out. She is the one the membrane heat shrunk on.
You can put a wet q tip on it and it should peel off easily.I have no idea it was stuck to her head when we helped her out. She is the one the membrane heat shrunk on.
Bramblefir ur girls look great!!!
Looks good, You will be able to keep them for breeding if you raise them slowly..
My avatar is Bert he is a 9/10 month old CX. .... and he has breeding on his mind all the time... I am moving him in the next few days to a pen with a few Dixie rainbows... He is so timid the other roosters run him off before he can do his work.
Thanks!
That's the plan! Nice and slow.
My Langshan cock has the same problem, except there's only one other male. A little bitty Hamburg keeps the great big Langshan running for his life.