w-Rock hen+ w-Cornish Roo = fast hybrid

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

I've got some White Plymouth Rock hens and Welsummer Roosters and I am currently incubating the eggs. Should be some fairly large fryers in about 12 weeks. I have sourced some standard white cornish mixed sex chicks in hopes of getting the Wide breasted rooster and to be able to breed my own hybrids. Has anybody done this on their own yet?

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:03 pm

Sounds interesting BRB. Bit hard to breed where I am with too many neighbours.

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

I live on a rural route, outside city limits... :rock:

There are some subdivisional rules but no enforcement intity, I would have to be taken to civil court and of the 2 dozen rules every single house in the neighborhood has at least 2 or three broken as in vinyl siding instead of brick, metal roofs instead of shingles, portable buildings etc. But if someone besides my kids would complain I would get rid of the roosters, but no one seems to mind anymore than a barking dog. A large part of my neighbors are retired seniors who seem to enjoy my little gardening and fruit trees which at harvest time usually leaves me plenty to give away. I just hatched out just over a dozen mixed chicks. Most all are black like the roosters so in 12 weeks I'll be working on a good fried chicken receipe!

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

My White Cornish standards finally came in. A dozen straight run chicks. I'll need to keep them in the brooder for a couple weeks and slowly acclimate them to the great outdoors. I guess my two roos are on borrowed time

Faye · **Posted:** Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:54 am

BatonRouge Bill wrote:

I guess my two roos are on borrowed time

For a minute there I thought you had kangaroos! :ohdear:

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

Faye wrote:

BatonRouge Bill wrote:

I guess my two roos are on borrowed time

For a minute there I thought you had kangaroos! :ohdear:

Definitely not an impossibility, :lol:

A fellow I work with has some, Prolly won't sell me any cause he knows I'll prolly eat them! :lol:

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

I hope all the hard freezes are over, I re ran the pvc to all the animal auto water bowls and fittings. It was getting to be a chore watering all the little animals every day after a 10-12 hr work days. I'll be glad when turnaround season is over at the plant.

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

Got a visitor again to the chicken growout pen. An Opossum took out my little Cornish rooster and a cornish hen. I guess the smell of the composter drew it in. Couldn't have been an owl this time as I have netting over the top. Ate the guts and left the meat on one and pulled the head thru the wire on the other. Resets the clock on whether or not I can breeds the hybrids myself or not. I guess I'll order another batch of cornish standard straight run and will order a dozen of the cornish x hybrids also just to gauge how fast they grow to compare to what I'll be trying.

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

Well, it wasn't a possum, it was a snapping turtle. I would have never guessed that one in a million years. I set a leg trap and thats what came back to the scene of the crime! My neighbor is going to make a sauce piquante' of of him. He purges them for a few days in clean water before doing the dirty. I know they eat fish, frogs road kill ect. so I guess if the young chickens sit still for him they are on the menu also. It was a regular snapper not the aligator snapper.

Simo · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 10:04 am

earthbound · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 7:22 pm

Never heard of that before..... :ahhh:

Big_Dave · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 7:31 pm

That is odd! I swear my Northern Long Neck Turtle is a Snapping Turtle, everytime I feed him he bites me!

chillidude · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:37 pm

I'm with Simo and Joel - :shock:

I take it chickens are to dumb to get away - it can't be that they're too slow, can it ?

Only snapping turtle I've ever seen was the one Paul Newman shot in Cool Hand Luke - but it didn't look fast !

Himzo · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:54 pm

chillidude wrote:

Cool Hand Luke !

Don't you just love the boiled egg eating contest in that film, not to mention the car wash :wow:

BatonRouge Bill · **Joined:** Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:59 pm **Posts:** 60

chillidude wrote:

I'm with Simo and Joel - :shock:

I take it chickens are to dumb to get away - it can't be that they're too slow, can it ?

Only snapping turtle I've ever seen was the one Paul Newman shot in Cool Hand Luke - but it didn't look fast !

You guys are correct on the dumb part. They would overnight between the page fence and the doghouse because the older chickens would harress them. The turtle just shot his head thru one of the holes in the wire and took a bite. I would have to say the 2nd chicken had to be dumber than the first.... I don't think the turtle baited them like fish but maybe. A snapping turtles tongue looks like a worm and they wiggle it. This may have been what happened to the first one being one of them head was bitten in half. I think only the head is lightning fast as he snaps at you. They certainly aren't very fast other than that.

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