FutureMillionaire
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I am mostly a duck guy but I now dabbled on in the world of chickens. It all started when my aunt gifted me 3 female Native Asian chickens and 1 rooster. It is known to be a hardy heritage breed. You can find them in the wild in the Philippines too.
People breed them for both eggs and meat but they are mostly layer chickens despite of being average egg layers. They are more smaller than most mainstream chicken breeds. Filipinos usually cook them for stews and soups because their meat is not as tender as the broilers. They thrive in neglect like Icelandic chickens and will be very invasive in the wild. I now have 12 of them in just 2 months, they populate very fast and the mothers are very protective. So there is low mortality rate with chicks. They are not a commercial breed but most homesteaders here keep them.
My uncle gifted me a 45 days Cornish rock.
Cornish rocks are broiler breed of chickens that are usually harvested at 45 days. They are one of the most common meat chickens in the world.
He gifted me that chicken for me to kill it. Well I end up not killing her because I liked the fact she gets along with my ducks and chickens. I heard most of these chickens die of heart attack at 6 months but she is already a year old. I saw her laying eggs for the first time and I gave it to a broody native with 5 eggs.
I think she lived this long because she doesn't eat commercial feeds. She just anything she finds in the backyard and a daily dose of rice bran.
Natives are always brown colored even as chicks. The eggs hatched and I think I now have chicks that is a cross between a Native and a Cornish rock. I will share pics later.
I wonder what the chicks will look like when they grow up. They currently yellow but with specs of brown. Have you ever crossed a layer to a broiler?
People breed them for both eggs and meat but they are mostly layer chickens despite of being average egg layers. They are more smaller than most mainstream chicken breeds. Filipinos usually cook them for stews and soups because their meat is not as tender as the broilers. They thrive in neglect like Icelandic chickens and will be very invasive in the wild. I now have 12 of them in just 2 months, they populate very fast and the mothers are very protective. So there is low mortality rate with chicks. They are not a commercial breed but most homesteaders here keep them.
My uncle gifted me a 45 days Cornish rock.
Cornish rocks are broiler breed of chickens that are usually harvested at 45 days. They are one of the most common meat chickens in the world.
He gifted me that chicken for me to kill it. Well I end up not killing her because I liked the fact she gets along with my ducks and chickens. I heard most of these chickens die of heart attack at 6 months but she is already a year old. I saw her laying eggs for the first time and I gave it to a broody native with 5 eggs.
I think she lived this long because she doesn't eat commercial feeds. She just anything she finds in the backyard and a daily dose of rice bran.
Natives are always brown colored even as chicks. The eggs hatched and I think I now have chicks that is a cross between a Native and a Cornish rock. I will share pics later.
I wonder what the chicks will look like when they grow up. They currently yellow but with specs of brown. Have you ever crossed a layer to a broiler?
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