Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

[OSUman]

I got 25 Cornish Rocks from Welp St Run last thursday, some of them have off colored down so i think im going to seperate them and try to use them for breeding. Im going to try your feeding plan on some of them steve, the others are going to get regular feeding and are to be butchered.

 

[SteveH]

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Off colored? I sure hope they sent the right chicks!

Best wishes with them, and please keep us informed of your progress. I need to get off here now and get things set up for mine to get on some grass today. I'm also thinking I may process some instead of keeping them all for brood stock............................... feed is just too high priced to try keeping all 26 to breeding age, even on restricted diets.

 

[OSUman]

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Off colored? I sure hope they sent the right chicks!

Best wishes with them, and please keep us informed of your progress. I need to get off here now and get things set up for mine to get on some grass today. I'm also thinking I may process some instead of keeping them all for brood stock............................... feed is just too high priced to try keeping all 26 to breeding age, even on restricted diets.

I have one that has black specks in its down and one that has red down but it has white feathers, they all are heavily built so i dont think its a case of the wrong breed. I was surprised because i put them outside in a pen that has that is too big for them and all but 2 or 3 of them are outside the pen foraging and ignoring their feed, and they are less then a week old.

 

[Minniechickmama]

OSU,
I would scratch my head on that one, my neighbor sold me her DC hens because she didn't want them (from Welp) she had ordered Red Production pullets and they send 15 DC pullets instead.
They were actually decent looking birds, nothing near Standard though. Nice feathering though for sure.
Just sayin' some of those hatcheries send out some crazy stuff sometimes.
I ordered my CRX from Stromberg's this year and I am liking them so far. They are pretty consistent in size and aren't acting too freakish like my batches from McM have been in the past.
At 4 weeks they went outside and are doing very well. In another 4-weeks they will be heading to the freezer as soon as my kids are done showing a few at the fair.

 

[OSUman]

here are some pics of the irregular ones,

 

[SteveH]

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Off colored? I sure hope they sent the right chicks!

Best wishes with them, and please keep us informed of your progress. I need to get off here now and get things set up for mine to get on some grass today. I'm also thinking I may process some instead of keeping them all for brood stock............................... feed is just too high priced to try keeping all 26 to breeding age, even on restricted diets.

I have one that has black specks in its down and one that has red down but it has white feathers, they all are heavily built so i dont think its a case of the wrong breed. I was surprised because i put them outside in a pen that has that is too big for them and all but 2 or 3 of them are outside the pen foraging and ignoring their feed, and they are less then a week old.

Do you always put them out in a pen at such a young age?

With a few exceptions, I don't suppose there's anyway to know what commercial line of eggs any of the hatcheries purchase to hatch, and there's probably not much difference in the performance of any of them, but I imagine they will all feather white [maybe an off color feather or two] if they're a fast growing commercial cross. The part where they are leaving the feeder to go forage does make me wonder to be honest. Mine took a couple pecks at the grass, but then they all sat in a corner all afternoon until I filled their feeder.

 

[OSUman]

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I have one that has black specks in its down and one that has red down but it has white feathers, they all are heavily built so i dont think its a case of the wrong breed. I was surprised because i put them outside in a pen that has that is too big for them and all but 2 or 3 of them are outside the pen foraging and ignoring their feed, and they are less then a week old.

Do you always put them out in a pen at such a young age?

With a few exceptions, I don't suppose there's anyway to know what commercial line of eggs any of the hatcheries purchase to hatch, and there's probably not much difference in the performance of any of them, but I imagine they will all feather white [maybe an off color feather or two] if they're a fast growing commercial cross. The part where they are leaving the feeder to go forage does make me wonder to be honest. Mine took a couple pecks at the grass, but then they all sat in a corner all afternoon until I filled their feeder.

I got mine from welp and plan on calling them tomorrow, this is actually only the second batch of meat birds i have raised and the only reason I put them out there is because im still working on making their brooder larger but they enjoyed it so i will proably do it again.

 

[Tracydr]

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This could very well be a vitamin E deficiency in your feed.

 

[SteveH]

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This could very well be a vitamin E deficiency in your feed.

I had also started useing wheat germ oil over their feed a couple of weeks before moving them to a green pen.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

So I still have to get pics... Just moved the "baby broilers" into the broiler pen. Waiting for everyone to get settled.

My freakish bantam rumpless meatbird I'm pretty sure has some sort of leg problem, he walks funny and his legs aren't getting taller like the other birds. He's so weird looking I've never seen anything like it.


On the other hand, my other meatbirds are doing FANTASTIC! I have some real high hopes for Big Red and Spot, and the girls are growing very nicely as well.