help me with my chick!! please! gender and breed.

[lana10123]

while that is a nice thought it is totally likely that one day you will walk out and see your Cornish X sitting on the ground with its feet out in front of it. Trying to raise one is a waste unless you feed it very very sparingly and make it hunt for its food. They aren't made to have a long life. They just aren't designed that way. I got a bunch intending to eat them, but they were so sweet that I no longer wanted to eat them, but they took the option away from me as they got a little older as they got too heavy to move. So then we would have to cull them anyway. Would be a waste to bury chickens that I got in the first place to eat. So we processed them and ate them. They are a super friendly funny bird. Sucks that they don't have too much longevity.

so basically "my flock" isnt really a flock. If my 2 white ones are cornish and wont live long, 2 r roos. Im left with one with potential. What does a girl do?

Should I add more chicks now?

 

[Basskids08]

I accidentally was sold a Cornish x who is now 13 weeks and going strong. I'm not butchering mine as I wasn't intending to get one. I go thru more food because of it, but I'm gonna keep her and raise her with all my others!

while that is a nice thought it is totally likely that one day you will walk out and see your Cornish X sitting on the ground with its feet out in front of it. Trying to raise one is a waste unless you feed it very very sparingly and make it hunt for its food. They aren't made to have a long life. They just aren't designed that way. I got a bunch intending to eat them, but they were so sweet that I no longer wanted to eat them, but they took the option away from me as they got a little older as they got too heavy to move. So then we would have to cull them anyway. Would be a waste to bury chickens that I got in the first place to eat. So we processed them and ate them. They are a super friendly funny bird. Sucks that they don't have too much longevity.

Thanks for the info. I have no idea how to butcher and process one anyway, and I don't know if I could. I could have someone do it for me I suppose. I just wouldn't want to see it done! Is that what you recommend?

 

[missnu01]

That it does. But now I know if I feel a fondness for a chick either because it is pretty or sweet I know right off it is a rooster. I have 2 chicks brooding now that I think are going to be so pretty and thusly definitely going to be roosters.

this "guy" is a Salmon faverolle easter egger mix

I'm thinking this guy is a Salmon Faverolle Blue Copper Marans mix. Could be wrong. He might be a salmon faverolle buff orpington mix. But it's coloring makes me think the Marans did the deed for this one.


Now I don't know for sure yet the sex of these but my attraction to them spells rooster.

And the fact that I'm guessing there is enough of the salmon in them for the dark colored ones to very likely turn into roosters.

Because straight salmon faverolles the girls will feather in white and tan and the boys feather in black... now I don't know if that holds true for the mixes...but I'm guessing it will still have a lot to do with it. Especially since most of them are aiming in white and tan, or orange thanks to my head roo a buff orpington

 

[missnu01]

while that is a nice thought it is totally likely that one day you will walk out and see your Cornish X sitting on the ground with its feet out in front of it. Trying to raise one is a waste unless you feed it very very sparingly and make it hunt for its food. They aren't made to have a long life. They just aren't designed that way. I got a bunch intending to eat them, but they were so sweet that I no longer wanted to eat them, but they took the option away from me as they got a little older as they got too heavy to move. So then we would have to cull them anyway. Would be a waste to bury chickens that I got in the first place to eat. So we processed them and ate them. They are a super friendly funny bird. Sucks that they don't have too much longevity.

so basically "my flock" isnt really a flock. If my 2 white ones are cornish and wont live long, 2 r roos. Im left with one with potential. What does a girl do?

Should I add more chicks now?

uh oh
..I hear the beginning stages of chicken math. That is what I would do. Try to find some that are already ssxed so the same thing doesn't happen. Feed stores usually have a pullet bin, or you can find someone that is reselling hatchery sexed chicks, or someone who has sex links. Either way if it was me I would get more chicks.

 

[missnu01]

I accidentally was sold a Cornish x who is now 13 weeks and going strong. I'm not butchering mine as I wasn't intending to get one. I go thru more food because of it, but I'm gonna keep her and raise her with all my others!

while that is a nice thought it is totally likely that one day you will walk out and see your Cornish X sitting on the ground with its feet out in front of it. Trying to raise one is a waste unless you feed it very very sparingly and make it hunt for its food. They aren't made to have a long life. They just aren't designed that way. I got a bunch intending to eat them, but they were so sweet that I no longer wanted to eat them, but they took the option away from me as they got a little older as they got too heavy to move. So then we would have to cull them anyway. Would be a waste to bury chickens that I got in the first place to eat. So we processed them and ate them. They are a super friendly funny bird. Sucks that they don't have too much longevity.

Thanks for the info. I have no idea how to butcher and process one anyway, and I don't know if I could. I could have someone do it for me I suppose. I just wouldn't want to see it done! Is that what you recommend?

well you could do what I did. Just wait it out
I mean some people have managed to keep a cornish X going into adulthood... so if I was you I would treat it like a chicken and just know it is likely it will one day not be able to move and the only kind thing to do is eat it. And processing isn't that bad. Get a big pot of water boiling, chop off its head, hold the feet and dunk the chicken in the boiling water real quick and then pull it out and pluck it, then make a pretty good sized cut below the tail reach in and pull the insides out. Sometimes you can just reach on through the vent and pull the organs out that way... cut the legs off and there you go. Ready to eat chicken. Either cook it right then, or allow it to rest 24 hours in the fridge, or soak it in brine, however you want to do it. All my cornish X were sort of myeh, to eat. Apparently I like the flavor that antibiotics and hormones add to chicken I'm eating. I felt our cornish didn't taste like chicken. Could be it was only the second time I had eaten a "real" chicken. The first time was an old hen we culled and turned into dumplings, she tasted like chicken, but that was in dumplings. The cornish to me just didn't have the flavor I was used to, probably because I am used to store bought chicken. I mean they weren't bad...
Sort of like the difference between store bought and my own eggs only backwards. After eating my hens eggs when I eat a store bought egg it is like somebody sucked all the egg taste out of the store eggs. Well after eating store bought chicken and then my chickens it seems like somebody sucked all the chicken flavor out of my home raised chickens.

 

[lana10123]

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uh oh
..I hear the beginning stages of chicken math. That is what I would do. Try to find some that are already ssxed so the same thing doesn't happen. Feed stores usually have a pullet bin, or you can find someone that is reselling hatchery sexed chicks, or someone who has sex links. Either way if it was me I would get more chicks.[/quote
yesssss I know its chicken math! Yesterday I almost took in 3 easter chicks from someone on Craigslist!!! Lol I was a bit too late, they were taken already. We dont really have tractor supply near by. Gota do my research.

 

[lana10123]

thats pretty funny! I dont think I would be able yo process my self. Ill just give it away and let someone else eat it.
I mean some people have managed to keep a cornish X going into adulthood... so if I was you I would treat it like a chicken and just know it is likely it will one day not be able to move and the only kind thing to do is eat it. And processing isn't that bad. Get a big pot of water boiling, chop off its head, hold the feet and dunk the chicken in the boiling water real quick and then pull it out and pluck it, then make a pretty good sized cut below the tail reach in and pull the insides out. Sometimes you can just reach on through the vent and pull the organs out that way... cut the legs off and there you go. Ready to eat chicken. Either cook it right then, or allow it to rest 24 hours in the fridge, or soak it in brine, however you want to do it. All my cornish X were sort of myeh, to eat. Apparently I like the flavor that antibiotics and hormones add to chicken I'm eating. I felt our cornish didn't taste like chicken. Could be it was only the second time I had eaten a "real" chicken. The first time was an old hen we culled and turned into dumplings, she tasted like chicken, but that was in dumplings. The cornish to me just didn't have the flavor I was used to, probably because I am used to store bought chicken. I mean they weren't bad...
Sort of like the difference between store bought and my own eggs only backwards. After eating my hens eggs when I eat a store bought egg it is like somebody sucked all the egg taste out of the store eggs. Well after eating store bought chicken and then my chickens it seems like somebody sucked all the chicken flavor out of my home raised chickens.[/quote]

 

[lana10123]

What is a sex.link?

 

[matt81c]

Chick you can tell gender at day 1 by color.

 

[matt81c]

Star links are crosses that I believe can be sex linked and are usually good layers