Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

[jajeanpierre]

I'm sure they're very nice birds... with their legs placed unnaturally wide and their huge breast. Kind of like the photoshopped women with 'thigh gap' and fake boobs.

On the subject of Cornish crosses, I actually tried to Google Cornish x Silkie.. Imagine it: A large silkie, with lots of belly surface to warm eggs. And the Asian market would love giant black chicken meat. Here I thought it was an insane idea, but man... I'm smelling profit!

Have you seen purebred Cornish? I think they are a lot weirder looking than the Cornish X birds, especially with their pale pearl eye. Same wide stance, giant legs and huge breasts.

 

[Beekissed]

Yep! Like really short bow-legged cowboys.

 

[Tomtommom]

No more unnatural than a polish with its top knot or a Phoenix with his tail or whatever that "devil chicken" is (la flèche?) with its split comb or taking advantage of a silkie's super broody nature to raise chicks that are not her own.

They're all products of breeding for some characteristics. And a cornish x is bred to produce a yummy plate at my table. They're great birds if you raise them right.

All them there weird looking fancy chickins....

I'm terrible, I prefer my chickens to look like chickens... Don't like polish, silkies, phoenix, demon chickens... I like good, sturdy old fashioned dual purpose birds.. Ameraucanas and cream crested legbars are as exotic as I go. Nice plump ladies, lay well, make a meal in the end: those are my girls. Only bantams I like are the 'original' bantams, like Dutch (I'm biased, being Dutch)... the naturally small ones, rather than the designer mini versions of LF. I'm picky dangit!

Have you seen purebred Cornish? I think they are a lot weirder looking than the Cornish X birds, especially with their pale pearl eye. Same wide stance, giant legs and huge breasts.

They're pretty freaky looking, that's for sure... makes you wonder how they bred them to look like that in the first place.

 

[Beekissed]

I'm rather fond of plain ol' farm chickens myself...love me a big dual purpose hen. I tend to think that most folks like pets and animals that are most like they or their personalities are... I've seen it time and again in this world, so my attraction to big, sturdy hens with a laid back persona, low maintenance, versatility and a good work ethic is probably not any accident. It's what I admire in a person and in myself, so it's natural to admire it in the livestock.

I think it's also why I like the CX...if they were everything people say they are, I probably wouldn't like them either, but in reality they are really great~if really hungry~birds that will work hard for their food and yield quite a bit for the money spent on them, with a quick turn around time from chick to processing. What's not to love?

 

[jajeanpierre]

All them there weird looking fancy chickins....

I'm terrible, I prefer my chickens to look like chickens... Don't like polish, silkies, phoenix, demon chickens... I like good, sturdy old fashioned dual purpose birds.. Ameraucanas and cream crested legbars are as exotic as I go. Nice plump ladies, lay well, make a meal in the end: those are my girls. Only bantams I like are the 'original' bantams, like Dutch (I'm biased, being Dutch)... the naturally small ones, rather than the designer mini versions of LF. I'm picky dangit!

They're pretty freaky looking, that's for sure... makes you wonder how they bred them to look like that in the first place.

Cornish come from a cross of Aseel, black red Old English Game and Malay, and were admitted to the APA SOP in 1893. All are old, old breeds. The Aseel, Malay and Cornish are all pretty freaky looking nonetheless. I'm actually getting used to the look of the Cornish and fell in love with Modern Games. Freaky looking is all in the eyes of the beholder it seems.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yep! Like really short bow-legged cowboys.

I think it's also why I like the CX...if they were everything people say they are, I probably wouldn't like them either, but in reality they are really great~if really hungry~birds that will work hard for their food and yield quite a bit for the money spent on them, with a quick turn around time from chick to processing. What's not to love?

I like them too, for the same reasons. I wasn't expecting them to have much personality, but they have surprised me there.


As for the little peanut, it's a Cornish X - I was studying it a bit ago and it has the same distended abdomen that the others do. I think there is something wrong internally with it. I don't expect it to live to maturity (meaning freezer), but we'll see.

 

[Tomtommom]

I'm rather fond of plain ol' farm chickens myself...love me a big dual purpose hen. I tend to think that most folks like pets and animals that are most like they or their personalities are... I've seen it time and again in this world, so my attraction to big, sturdy hens with a laid back persona, low maintenance, versatility and a good work ethic is probably not any accident. It's what I admire in a person and in myself, so it's natural to admire it in the livestock.

I think it's also why I like the CX...if they were everything people say they are, I probably wouldn't like them either, but in reality they are really great~if really hungry~birds that will work hard for their food and yield quite a bit for the money spent on them, with a quick turn around time from chick to processing. What's not to love?

That makes a lot of sense

It makes sense an easy-going, down to earth person wouldn't do well with high maintainance froo froo chickens.

Cornish come from a cross of Aseel, black red Old English Game and Malay, and were admitted to the APA SOP in 1893. All are old, old breeds. The Aseel, Malay and Cornish are all pretty freaky looking nonetheless. I'm actually getting used to the look of the Cornish and fell in love with Modern Games. Freaky looking is all in the eyes of the beholder it seems.

Learned something new!

Those are all really leggy birds, I think that makes them so freaky looking

A far cry from our plump backyard hens.

I like them too, for the same reasons. I wasn't expecting them to have much personality, but they have surprised me there.


As for the little peanut, it's a Cornish X - I was studying it a bit ago and it has the same distended abdomen that the others do. I think there is something wrong internally with it. I don't expect it to live to maturity (meaning freezer), but we'll see.

Someone in town just lost one of her Polish hens likely due to heart failure... she was always really small as well.

 

[ronott1]

I like them too, for the same reasons. I wasn't expecting them to have much personality, but they have surprised me there.


As for the little peanut, it's a Cornish X - I was studying it a bit ago and it has the same distended abdomen that the others do. I think there is something wrong internally with it. I don't expect it to live to maturity (meaning freezer), but we'll see.

That is sad. Is the chick growing at all? I wonder if it has failure to thrive.

 

[Happy Chooks]

That is sad. Is the chick growing at all? I wonder if it has failure to thrive.

It is growing, but not much. It is 1/4 the size of the others. It has wing feathers, but no other feathering yet. I will give it the chance to grow, but I don't expect it to make it. If it lives past the others going to the freezer, I can raise it with my Easter chicks. It's been 3 weeks, wouldn't failure to thrive occur (and die) earlier than 3 weeks? I've never had a failure to thrive chick before.

Here is the picture again:

 

[ronott1]

It is growing, but not much. It is 1/4 the size of the others. It has wing feathers, but no other feathering yet. I will give it the chance to grow, but I don't expect it to make it. If it lives past the others going to the freezer, I can raise it with my Easter chicks. It's been 3 weeks, wouldn't failure to thrive occur (and die) earlier than 3 weeks? I've never had a failure to thrive chick before.

Here is the picture again:

I had one make 4 weeks or so. The big ones smashed it. It never really got any bigger than when it hatched.