Posted By: Jim H
Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 02:48 AM
2 of these came with my cornish cross.... what are they?
Posted By: JD Hornet
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 02:59 AM
A lot of hatcheries give an extra chicken with your order but you may have to wait til it is grown to know what it is. Also it is probably a male that is how they get rid of the males.
Posted By: KeithC
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 03:05 AM
I think its a an Australorp chick.
Keith
Posted By: mask bandit
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 03:08 AM
I think its a an Australorp chick.
Keith
Yep , that a a Australorp.
Yea, my best guess would be Australorp rooster.
Posted By: Jim H
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 12:32 PM
Thanks everyone! Leftlane, that's pretty much what I told my wife when she asked what kind they were!
Posted By: Wildcatdad
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 02:03 PM
You will put as much feed in it as the rest of the chicks. It will be a third the size, tough and bony. If you want a rooster, keep it, if not, cull it now.
Posted By: cheechako
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 02:42 PM
I'm going to order my fall cornish to be delivered in October. It's still in the 80's here until late October. It's just too hot here to deal with them any earlier than that. I order from some folks in state and shipping would still be brutal in this heat.
Posted By: tjm
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 05:48 PM
Almost always the extras are roosters, often added to small orders to help the birds stay warm, but I had eight roosters extra in an hundred pullet order.
Posted By: Yes sir
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/07/20 06:00 PM
You will put as much feed in it as the rest of the chicks. It will be a third the size, tough and bony. If you want a rooster, keep it, if not, cull it now.
Dumplings dont careAfter all this haven't you guys learned that black lives matter??!!
Posted By: eric space
Re: Chicken experts... - 08/08/20 12:30 AM
I get my chicks from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries. If I order pullets the extras are always pullets of the same breed.