My Dark Cornish project

[archeryrob]

I have been wanting to raise meat birds for a while and my daughter forcing me in the first coop started this adventure last year. i built my coop this year and bought Dark Cornish from Ideal for this project. Paying $2.25 a chick for cornishX hit my cheap gene and sounded like a loosing monetary deal to me, so I am trying this. Plus I like the sustainable idea and closer to a heritage bird.

50 - 63 are my Dark Cornish. 64 - 66 three hatched chicks of my daughters 64 and 65 are Dark Bramha Roo crossed with RIR hens. 66 is the DB and Leghorn. 64 and 65 are weird and pretty Mostly white with dark splashes on the wings and red starting to lightly fill in the spaces. No idea where all the white came from those two. 66 didn't get weighed this week, she visible smaller than the rest. 64 - 66 are just weighed in because they are there and maybe a comparison. If she lays like the leghorn, she'll always have a home.

I'll update every week. This si to learn what week I would want to process their chicks and which ones should be saved to make better chicks.

 

[ThracianHorse]

This might be something you wanna read on your journey to a meat chicken. It has a lot of super-interesting information in it:

https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/fnc12-866/

I'm trying out my own homebrew breeding of some meat birds. I'm going to try Rangers crossed to different things then back to each other - I've got a young dark cornish rooster to kick the experiment off with. Good luck!

 

[Compost King]

I am just dropping a post so I get alerts, I like following these meat bird threads

 

[Parront]

I have been wanting to raise meat birds for a while and my daughter forcing me in the first coop started this adventure last year. i built my coop this year and bought Dark Cornish from Ideal for this project. Paying $2.25 a chick for cornishX hit my cheap gene and sounded like a loosing monetary deal to me, so I am trying this. Plus I like the sustainable idea and closer to a heritage bird.

50 - 63 are my Dark Cornish. 64 - 66 three hatched chicks of my daughters 64 and 65 are Dark Bramha Roo crossed with RIR hens. 66 is the DB and Leghorn. 64 and 65 are weird and pretty Mostly white with dark splashes on the wings and red starting to lightly fill in the spaces. No idea where all the white came from those two. 66 didn't get weighed this week, she visible smaller than the rest. 64 - 66 are just weighed in because they are there and maybe a comparison. If she lays like the leghorn, she'll always have a home.

I'll update every week. This si to learn what week I would want to process their chicks and which ones should be saved to make better chicks.

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Nice sheet!

 

[Newyorkrita]

I am just dropping a post so I get alerts, I like following these meat bird threads

Me too!!

 

[Compost King]

I love the feeder on your blog. I may make one just like it.

 

[archeryrob]

The feeder is great except look into the quality of the tub. This one was clear and why I used it. Looking back now I would rather have a stronger non-clear one than this one.

It seems brittle and was hard to cut, which is why I burned the holes in. Plus the Three dark Brahma hens we have in that coop think its a low roost to sleep and crap on all night now. 30# on the lid all night probably won't help in the winter.

 

[archeryrob]

Haha, the cornish roosters are starting to learn to crow and they sound like Coo Coo clocks.

 

[Compost King]

How old are the Cornish Roosters that are just starting to crow?

 

[archeryrob]

9 weeks today and weigh in is tonight. Started crowing right around 8, or at least one did. He is not very loud, which doesn't hurt my feelings. My daughters Dark Brahma roo is louder inside the coop in the morning than this guy is.