First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[JRNash]

Not real sure.lol. has something to do with genes. Still reading on it

 

[daskhan]

I get disability. Cause I was paranoid and hallucinations on the job as a nurse at the local jail. . They said bipolar with PTSD from hostile work environment. It only took them 10 months to declare me disabled and give me social security. But I'm a also one of those who can't by a gun now since the new gun control laws went into effect here.Still working on the workers comp settlement. Then I'll get enough land to have all the chickens,cows,goats and whatever other animals I want. I don't want much. Just 40 achers so deep in the woods you'd have to have been lost and wandering for days before you stumbled across my place.

I guess that's one of those things that you get only if you have a "good" job I used to work at a gas station told my boss for like three weeks strait I was seeing a big guy walk into the store and go strait into the cooler and never come out and nothing I don't get paid... Ugh I also from time to time go catatonic for like a minute or so maybe I should see a professional but that's another thing you can't really do with a shitty job

 

[JessicaThistle]

Lady has 51 Cornish giants 10 days old they are losing feathers any ideas?

If they are of the Cornish Cross variety they grow really fast and molt a lot trying to keep feather growth in line with body growth. They are not well feathered. I suspect there is nothing wrong. Just standard molting.

 

[Red Nugget]

I guess that's one of those things that you get only if you have a "good" job I used to work at a gas station told my boss for like three weeks strait I was seeing a big guy walk into the store and go strait into the cooler and never come out and nothing I don't get paid... Ugh I also from time to time go catatonic for like a minute or so maybe I should see a professional but that's another thing you can't really do with a shitty job

Yep . My good job for the sheriff's office. I had a lot of crazy jobs before I became a nurse. And I did love being a nurse but the daily hostility for 10 yrs at the jail just did in my already fragile mind when it came to keeping my mood swings stable. And when you have that good pay and benefits . You can't see going to a less stress job as a good thing cause your always worried about losing the good money. So when I finally lost it it was a doosey. I spent a few months in a hospital. Now things are much better in my head. But I do miss the pay checks some times but I think life is much simpler with out it. I was always broke then. Now that I have to live on 25% of that old income things aren't as stressful. It seems the more you make the more it costs to live.

 

[JRNash]

I went into the hospital over a week ago.Three bags of fluids,bp was 53/35 and my phsyc meds were all screwed up. I've stopped the serequel and depakote over the last 9 days. Emotions are a roller coaster ride from hades.But I'm hoping i can finish out the next phase of this job.

 

[daskhan]

It's iron my preggo gf says she doesn't know who she's gonna wake up next to everyday apparently I'm multiple people lol she says my mood is a coin flip everyday I think I understand but I can't really help it.... I think I know why I'm like this but I'm kinda to poor to see a shrink and I don't get military benifits

 

[JRNash]

I know what you mean. The nut doc wants
250 an hour. I told him for 250hr I'd go see a hooker and really get ******!!
I'm going to the VA tomorrow to see if i can get help with that and meds

 

[JRNash]

Hey Ralph,do the Cx sexually mature at the same rate they grow??

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey Ralph,do the Cx sexually mature at the same rate they grow??

Mine did not, they were very slow maturers, I never did get an egg, You should really wait for input on this from MM, Holm or Jessica, they all had hens lay eggs. Mine died at 6 months without an egg.

 

[mountain mom]

Hey Ralph,do the Cx sexually mature at the same rate they grow??

Pearl laid her first egg at 15ish weeks. Middle of the winter, during a terrible snow storm, before I had put a light in the coop to keep up egg production. She laid some odd eggs at the start, but after a few months, she was my second best layer. 2nd biggest eggs too.
When we processed her first flock, we had a couple of roos that were trying to crow. We processed at 12 or 13 weeks, I can't remember exactly.

The "average" age for a hen to start laying is 6 months, so I would say she was an early bloomer. But supposedly "heavier" breeds will likely lay a bit sooner. She was my only hen to start laying so early.