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I was wondering about this. I need a breed that can free range to earn his and her keep. ( With electric fencing to keep out predators, of curse.)oops "course"cornish are too valueable to let free range. Shoot, I don't even like having mine in an unlocked coop anymore
I let the 'spares' runabout, but then again-- I just eat their eggs.
LOL. I have a feeling I will be pretty protective of my HRIR for a while... The Cornish seem just by nature not to be well suited to free range. 'Course, "free" range on my lot means a large yard, maybe .15acre that I can see the entire thing, is fully fenced, and I don't let them out if I'm going somewhere. It's got enough large trees that so far not even the crows have figured out there's anything there. We have owls, hawks and Bald Eagles. They have found my young'ns in the front yard because there are no trees for quite a ways and boy they are a noisy bunch. But they're too little to range, they are 6 in a 8x8 fully protected run. I'm actually considering keeping the food cockerels out there, 'cause if I lose one to a predator, well, that's life. I've heard people have good luck with decoys that way.Any bird, of any breed, of any quality will cost you something to buy. Maybe I'm tight, but that's an investment I'd rather not chance on something stupid happening to.
Now, some cheap worthless deal from Farm King-- different story.
Try mut have changed the photo uploads again. I have them in my album, but cannot load them on this thread.
I have one nice pics of this years hatch from the group I hatched out from BigMedicine.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/i/5912290/cornish-cross/sort/display_order/#
Here is a link to the album, but I keep getting error messages when I try and bring the pics to this thread.