Will cornish X broilers lay eggs??

[moussa]

all this experiments is giving me hope with my first experiment which i am doing now. my 6 cornish x today they are 30 days and their weight is 250 gm
they slow down their rate of growing naturally, they sleep under their mother wings and i think that is the reason that they slow down there growing rate.
they are adapted to orpington hen together with another 2 chicks came from different blood lines
they are all free range from first day their behave and their way of running is like any other chicks not as the cornish x funny way of running

 

[TimBurma]

I am also starting raising meat birds. I bought a group of what I assume are cornish x(the hatchery I got them from referred to them only as meat birds.....). This is the third week and so far, it's going good. I have them on regular layer feed(was unable to source any other feed type) and they seem to be taking it well. No massive explosion in growth compared to the rhode island reds that I got at the same time. Maybe 10-15% larger, but that's about it.

 

[dogstooth18]

I have raised the white cornish cross broilers last year and this year and I heard if you raise the hens long enough they will every now and again lay an egg and are usually double yokers. But I think it would be real cool to have a broiler lay if you had one please post a picture or tell about it thanks

 

[dogstooth18]

I rescue Cornish Cross Chickens. In my humble opinion, they are feathered puppies, as for their eggs, this one weighs in at 3.9 oz. The usual weight is 2.8 - 3.2 oz. I feed them back to my girls with their porridge. They lay everyday, all year round. I adore them.

 

[JB8907]

I rescue Cornish Cross Chickens. In my humble opinion, they are feathered puppies, as for their eggs, this one weighs in at 3.9 oz. The usual weight is 2.8 - 3.2 oz. I feed them back to my girls with their porridge. They lay everyday, all year round. I adore them.

Where do you rescue them from? Just curious.

And either that's a huge egg or you have small hands.... But I'm going with the former. Lol

 

[Vaughn Blethen]

I have raised the white cornish cross broilers last year and this year and I heard if you raise the hens long enough they will every now and again lay an egg and are usually double yokers. But I think it would be real cool to have a broiler lay if you had one please post a picture or tell about it thanks

I have raised the white cornish cross broilers last year and this year and I heard if you raise the hens long enough they will every now and again lay an egg and are usually double yokers. But I think it would be real cool to have a broiler lay if you had one please post a picture or tell about it thanks

Our Cornish Cross chickens are now 116 days old and feeling quite "frisky"....today we found a malformed (soft shell) egg! Unfortunately, it got stepped on and I cannot tell if it is a single or double yolk...but will keep you posted! So, in answer to your question, apparently they begin to lay at around 4 months (if they manage to survive that long). Ours are doing okay so far...have only lost one due to splayed legs. See picture of stepped on soft-shelled egg, attached.

 

[esme13]

I was just looking for a thread about this topic it’s a great question and even I’m left wondering. I have 16 week old rainbow broilers. And yesterday I found a pale egg and today I found a darker egg. They free range a lot and are given feed in the morning and evening. I was planning to process them anytime now as they eat A LOT! And they are aggressive eaters. But one has just started laying and I have my “dinner” rooster in there with them. I’m wondering how they might hatch or if they are even fertile. So now I’ve started collecting and will see if they are fertile . has anyone tried incubating?

 

[Ridgerunner]

They are chickens. With any breed or mix, they might be fertile they might not. Rangers are no different.

The general recommendation is to not hatch pullet eggs. I'll mention a few reasons. For an egg to hatch pretty much everything has to be put together right. The internal egg making factory is pretty complicated, pullets sometimes have problems getting everything right when they start laying. That's why some pullets' first eggs can be so weird. No yolk, double yolk, thin or soft shelled, really thick shells, or just funny looking. Not all pullet eggs are weird, but they are common. Some of the stuff that has t be right to hatch is stuff you cannot see with your naked eye. Not all pullet eggs are like this, to me it's surprising how many get it right. Most seem to.

The first eggs a pullet lays are typically really small. That's natures way to protect a partially grown pullet from damaging herself by laying really large eggs. Those tiny eggs do not have enough nutrients or size for a chick to grow very big before hatch. The chicks that hatch will be small. I don't know if they will always be small or if they catch up in size as they grow, they have the same genetics as chicks from larger eggs.

I hatch pullet eggs. You can get some to hatch. My hatch rate with pullet eggs is not as good as with larger eggs but some will hatch. Sometimes a lot of them will hatch, sometimes not a lot.

When I hatch chicks I seldom lose one. Anybody that hatches and raised a lot of chicks know they will sometimes lose one. When I do it's often one that hatched from a small pullet egg. That may be because they're not as strong as chicks hatched from larger eggs but I'm not sure. They are usually pretty active. I suspect it's more likely a birth defect because maybe the egg wasn't perfect after all. But I don't know.

For whatever reasons my hatch rates and survival rates aren't quite as good as from larger eggs. I find if the pullet has been laying about a month these rates improve.

A story. One time when I was collecting eggs for the incubator I had two pullets laying so I threw their eggs in with the others. I could tell which pullet laid which egg by shell color. Out of 5 eggs laid by one pullet I got 5 chicks. They all did well. Out of the 6 eggs from the other pullet I got 0 chicks. None even started to develop. I suspect she wasn't squatting for the rooster and he didn't bother to chase her down but that's a guess. I don't really know.

Mine were dual purpose chickens, not Rangers. But I don't know why it would be any different with them, they are just chickens. I don't now what you have to lose by trying it. If you do, let us know how it goes.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Can you put meat and layers to gather? Also can u put ducks chickens n other fowl birds to gather?

In Order of size, I have Pekin ducks, Cornish X, Hoover Hatchery "Rainbows", Dark Brahma and Golden Comets all sharing a run, a hen house (technically, the ducks stay underneath), and a free range pair of acres (though they rarely travel more than 150' in any direction from the house. The birds are similar in age, the oldest Pekins being only 4 weeks older than the youngest comets - though I had to separate them for grow out purposes to prevent accidental death by crushing, I was able to fully integrate at nine weeks.

No issues. Though having all the space I have helps, there's no competition for food, water, or roost space. More often than not, i don't close the door on the hen house, just the gate to the run. The birds tend to self segregate for sleeping (except the comets and brahma, who bundle up together), but make distinct mixed groups while free-ranging.

 

[karenerwin]

Yes, I have had Cornish cross hens lay eggs. We usually leave at least 1 hen to live out it’s life well past the 8 week mark. This year I butchered one that was 13 months old. She laid 2 or 3 eggs a week for a while.
in the past we saved aCornish cross rooster and a hen but that never worked out well. The rooster usually ended up injuring the hen while trying to mate. Injuries such as breaking her leg because he was too heavy! Or else he wasn’t able to mount her because he was too heavy. So now we just keep out a hen. It’s something my husband petitioned me to do.