Each mid morning I let them out, make them share a layer feed/grit/oyster shell/oat/black seed mixture from a half gallon bucket. I saved out a runt Cornish /Rock hen as well, she laid a double yoker almost every day. Sign up for Honest-to-Goodness Homesteading Information and get my new eBook 'Secrets to a Weed & Pest Free Homestead' for FREE! This is all good info to know, Linda. I have a Cornish pullet I plan to keep and see if she lays eggs this fall. They arrived late last week.Â. I’ve never had any get that big! However, some of my readers have successfully hatched Cornish Cross eggs…please see the comments below. We almost put her in the freezer with the males but she was little. I have not tried this…so I can’t tell you what would happen. It seems that they grow faster than the heritage birds, but not as fast or as big as the Cornish X chicks. Yeah, I’m hoping to cross these chicks when they’re grown back to cornish rock crosses. We do not want to give her away to become food nor do we want her legs to not be able to hold her up. Your Cornish bantams sound very cute and fun to keep. And it continuously lay up to their 68 th weeks. As for the heat I put a fan on mine as well as a water pan for them to walk in cooling them off. So you might see a reduction in egg production from those hens soon. Are they doomed to die early? Very helpful & inspiring! As soon as you get your chicks home, make sure they go into a brooder box with a heat source. Raising meat chickens I don’t need all that many eggs. Would really appreciate your feedback – or a link to a follow up article if you did one. I have a beautiful cornishXrock that was small. These are all clues to the influence of the Asil breed that contributed to its development. Let me know how your chickens are doing 🙂 Best wishes! Thanks for stopping by. But I suspect that the rooster would get too large to mate properly, just like the broad breasted turkeys. You can either provide feed in several chunks of time per day, or you can put the feeders in for 12 hours and remove them for 12 hours.Â. I hope that you have the same results as I have 🙂 But I can’t guarantee that you will. Thanks for sharing…Lisa Lynn. 🙂, I look forward to following your experiment! Thanks. Rated 5 out of 5. Thanks for the update! They have all of the proper anatomy for the job. biggest chicken drumsticks I have ever seen, lacking the sinew in Turkey legs. 🙂. I’ve got 3 perfectly shaped medium-large light brown/pink eggs. I wonder if the large yolk is a genetic trait for that hen? She was about twice the size of a normal chick but maybe half the size of the other Cornish X chickens. Though, the fact that they are hybridized to grow so quickly has been a small concern. I hope you get a great hatch, Christopher! These birds have the ability to reach four to six pounds by just six to eight weeks of age. Thanks for sharing, Martin. Do you like getting dirt under your fingernails? Best wishes! Give them places where they can hide if they are frightened. Just hatched out the first baby! When he was 1 ½ years old, he had a heart attack on a very cold night. !… I will keep trying. The legs were a little bit tough. Which I don’t do very often. Hi Raymond, Then give feed again in the morning. We’d buy around 50 roosters and a dozen laying hens each Spring. One male, one female. Only one was a hen and I butchered her around 20 weeks at around 16 pounds and she had eggs inside. There’s some other stuff you need to learn with these guys. They often do not feather in at all in this area.Â. 🙂 I feed her like my others and she is free range… still the smallest in the flock. I found that mine would go outside and act kind of like a normal chicken, although she would sometimes run around in a circle flapping her wings, instead of running inside when there was a threat. I have just hatched 3 Cornish cross chicks in an incubator, layer by 6 month old hens….the hens have died since. I know with some sex link hybrids, the rooster has to be one breed and the hen has to be the other. Hi James, Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was hard to source baby chicks from our usual hatcheries. Once our Leghorn hen chased them out of the run so she could lay an egg and they were scared and lost. So maybe I will keep a couple of the pullets and try this again. They might be piling together to stay warm and not wanting to venture out to eat as a result. Be sure to take a look at these other articles. Best wishes with your chickens! Kathi, She was very tasty! Enjoy your free ranging hen and her eggs. To my surprise they are all doing very well. Even its face still carries a touch of the fierceness of its fighting ancestors. Thanks. At the end of the 6 months they were acting like crack beads and I realized that surprisingly an acre is not enough for a dozen chickens without supplemental systems for added protein and calcium especially. I came across Cornish x entirely by accident as my hubby and his friend just went out and bought “chicks” for us to have eggs. They have never used their roosting bars or nesting boxes, preferring instead to huddle together at night on the cooler dirt floor and lay their eggs there as well as various places around the back yard in my hostas or other plants. I’m hoping to try hatching them, if the rooster ever takes a liking to her. If you raise your meat birds on a normal chick starter feed, rather than high protein meat producer feed, they won’t grow as quickly. She just doesn’t jump/fly up onto things like the others do. I’ve heard that they will either produce rock chicks or Cornish chicks. To insure you the best meat bird available, all our White Cornish hatching eggs come from large commercial farms in Arkansas. Even though they aren’t known to eat a lot of pasture, they produce a ton of waste.Â. The Cornish chicken will produce a very small amount of eggs over their lifetime because they weren't bred for breakfast—they are a dinner bird for sure. Ameraucana chicken is a common backyard breed that lays blue/green eggs. I already mentioned that we plan to house our Cornish Cross chicks in chicken tractors. I have two Cornish Rocks. The other 7 roosters are going to freezer camp and I can’t wait to see if there is any appreciable difference in the quality of the meat(as they say about the Dorking breed). I prefer the taste of Dorking over Cornish X, the crossbreds taste better to me than the Cornish X, though I am a dark meat person. he is so friendly even my three year old pets him and he even lets her pick him up, I don’t feed them much feed any longer just in the evening to get them to the coop, but everyday I still make them chase me for the feed and they can all run quite well now they even follow me when I call them without feed, they may not be as smart as the other chickens but if you just help motivate them to move they grow to be handsome/pretty even heathy chickens. 🙂 I’m not sure this would be a typical outcome, but mine is still laying too and I would try another runt again. Past 12 weeks I put everyone on layer 16 crumbles and scratch, they get worms, weeds and bugs to supplement their diet. You can use any kind of feed you want, but a broiler feed is recommended. I’ve been wanting to try breeding them from that combo too. I’m still “planning” to do it lol. The roosters have no problem mating with her. Can’t wait to hear how they grow and what kind of meat production you get. 🙂 Best wishes with your chicken raising! Do not use a layer feed, which can overtax your bird’s already hard-working organs with the excess calcium. i wonder to take cornish x hen as a layer. The most obvious reason to raise Cornish Cross chickens is that they feather out and mature rapidly – almost at a truly unbelievable rate. Eggs are, in a sense, chicken seeds. Hi Merrill, Another interesting caveat to raising Cornish Cross chickens is that you need to be careful raising them in extreme heat and/or at high altitude. Can You Keep Cornish X Chickens as Laying Hens? I have a couple of follow-up questions for you. Have saved the 2 best roosters and they are in with the hens (and my other 7 mixed breed hens). Is this true? As you may have deduced from the name, these chickens are hybrids, and therefore do not breed true. As much as I love raising heritage chickens, they are unfortunately really difficult to sell unless you’re selling to an audience that is well-educated in all the benefits of heritage meat.Â. Happy to help out, Tonya! All they wanna do is sit, eat and sleep. Hahaha my old cornish X hen that i kept as a pet died and did not lay, but just this January i bought 2 cornish x chicks again and just yesterday one layed egg and I found another one today, they are very heavy at 6kg each but their eggs are brown and quite small for their size. As far as mothering abilities go, the Cornish hen ranks pretty high on the helicopter mom scale. Her eggs were a normal, medium size when she was full grown. In the morning they should be okay…but keep an eye on them to make sure there isn’t any bullying going on. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and although the global population has decreased from more than 24 billion in 2003 to 19 billion in 2011, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. I kept a tom and hen and contrary to what everyone told me, they mated, she laid eggs, sat on them and hatched them out nearly two months before the feed store had chicks. Here are two different breeds to consider when selecti… Since most broiler chickens are killed between eight and 12 weeks for meat, they also do not have many opportunities to lay eggs. 🙂 The Cornish X have been hybridized and bred for fast growth and are very different. The extra roosters will be butchered at about 5 to 6 months and the pullets used for layer replacements. Thanks so much for the advice! Modern broilers have become very different from the Cornish/Rock crossbreed. Losing weight and keeping them smaller (less fat, fewer yokes) seems to be the most important lesson. I limited their food and put them with my Black Australorp rooster and he successfully bred them, so it works! 29 pounds is huge! I plan on hatching the eggs as a large bird person what sort of chicken can I expect . I Think Ima Keep Her See How She Turns Out. We have a Cornish X hen named Iso that we accidentally adopted and have kept as a layer. Rooster used in my cross was buff Orpington . I myself am going to buy all Cornish hens to save them from the obvious future they would have without me… I have no plans whatsoever of eating them, as I’m a vegetarian, but may I suggest something? never got one to even start growing in the incubator. For 100 birds, you will need approximately 1200 pounds of food total – or 10-14 pounds of chicken feed over the course of one bird’s life. I’ll let you know when she starts laying. This sounds like a great experiment! We discovered this firsthand when we put a plate of Greek yogurt in our brooder. Everything you need to know about raising Cornish Cross chickens. She sounds like she was an interesting girl. What is the Deep Litter Method for Chickens? Your information is great. 😉. Since the last time I posted, my 1yo pet Cornish X Iso has gone broody (rather ironic seeing as though my BOs are three and have never done so)! Males will dress out at 4 to 5 lbs at 7 weeks with females dressing the same weight at 8 weeks of age. Hi Steven, Thanks. Hi Laura, It’s a girl and I now know this because she laid an egg today :). Hi Debbie, Broilers such as the Cornish Cross chicken and the Red Ranger chicken generally are the most popular as they efficiently and quickly convert their food to meat, while yielding a heavier dressed bird than heritage breeds. Yes, a lower protein feed is better for keeping your Cornish x chicken from getting too huge. So far so good I candles at 10 days and they were developing, so I will have my own meat chickens about a week from now. Occasionally they get cherry tomatoes, or the rind from watermelons, or some blueberries, kitchen scraps, etc. This page contains affiliate links. I’ve enjoyed reading the convo here. All this time I’d been thinking, “these are some huge birds and they really eat a LOT!” I’d been free feeding with a DIY feeder I saw on YouTube and was quite proud of myself but couldn’t understand why I kept having to refill the 5 gallon bucket so frequently. Let us know how your hen is doing! Let your heart guide you in your decision. Hi, Lisa Lyn. I hope you have good luck with your chickens. I have chance to get 4 white rock hens, I have a BCMorans Roo. We started our own little flock as a project for our daughter. This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Our girl gets a lot of exercise (and fresh produce, lol). Let me know how the chicks do! 🙂 Maybe the next time I need to order chickens I’ll give it a try. Egg production of Cornish chicken. We did this to give the chicks a healthy dose of probiotics yesterday.Â. Here are a few of them: Cornish Cross chickens are some of the easiest chickens when it comes to slaughtering and processing time. You will not pay any extra if you purchase products through these links, but I will receive a small commission. My NH red Roos are a few weeks younger than the X hens and have not even started to crow. They’re doing great. When they least expect it, i shower them a little as well. This utility breed can pump out nearly an egg a day if they are happy and healthy. 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