First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[JRNash]

more hybrids

 

[JRNash]

so far the two ee crosses haven't hatched

 

[JRNash]

I'm probably not going to be able to stick to it,but here goes....I'm not hatching anymore of the crosses until the F1's mature...ye right.

 

[lpatelski]

more hybrids

Is this a DC cross?

 

[JRNash]

Is this a DC cross?

Some of them are. Most are slow grow broiler crosses

 

[JRNash]

Goodnight chicken friends

 

[lpatelski]

Some of them are. Most are slow grow broiler crosses

Take note of the DC/boiler crosses with splash dots. I have a sexlink with my DC and Murray McMurray Cornish Roaster(slower growing) the pullets have black splash spots, cockerels are white/red.

 

[JRNash]

That's very interesting. I had wondered if there was something like that going on in my first 4 hatches.
This hatch is using a Saipan rooster over the hens. I still see white chicks with black dots and black chicks with yellow spots on top of the head

 

[Jamie_Dog_Trainer]

I lost two half grown hybrids at the beginning of the week.They flew into the dog pen. My Rhodesian Ridgeback made short work of them. I was screaming bloody murder at him to no avail. He has been educated,I wont discuss the method. However it was a resonding success. They have gotten into the pen since then. He looks then he turns and faces the other way. If they get within 10 ft of him he goes into his dog house. My other dog a hybrid husky x lab
Just follows them around.Never moves fast and doesn't try to hurt them. My training session upset the dear wife. I was raised old school. A dog that ate chickens or eggs was immediately eradicated.Any animal that showed aggression towards people would NOT survive. Dogs were supposed to bark NOT bite. And when they did bark,it was at people.Not the moon. I know alot of people will side with my wife saying its the chickens fault,(or mine ) To this i offer the following , All my animals are treated VERY well. More like my kids. And when they violate the rules they pay the consequences. My wife has always believed me to be too strict. It's the way I was raised. Spare the rod, spoil the child

Dogs were also not meant to sit on a chain with a dog house, especially nothe an active intelligent HUNTING breed such as a Ridgeback.

While I'm not going to say physical punishment is outside the realm of effective, training the dog and having a relationship with the dog will work longer term with less damage.

 

[JRNash]

The dogs are not on chains. They are in a 100' x 75' pen. I treat my animals like people. Break the rules.suffer the consequences. I don't beleive in the "let's talk it out" philosophy.