Cornish Thread

Gotta read through the posts still but just curious, hatcheries seem to have dark or white laced red only. When it comes to genetics what would you get crossing the two? Since alot of us gotta play with hatchery stock.
Thanks!
I found this article about how the Cornish chicken came about, but it didn't say anything about the white laced red Cornish and the white laced red Cornish is not listed as a meat bird in Mcmurrays catalog. https://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/2011/04/29/dark-cornish/

I found another article about the white laced red Cornish, apparently it was created by a Japanese Shamo and dark Cornish cross. https://web.extension.illinois.edu/eggs/res10-breedhistory.html

It would be better to go with the dark Cornish and cross it with a white Plymouth Rock or white Breese if you are trying to turn their feathers white.
 
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I found this article about how the Cornish chicken came about, but it didn't say anything about the white laced red Cornish and the white laced red Cornish is not listed as a meat bird in Mcmurrays catalog. https://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/2011/04/29/dark-cornish/

Huh, I didn't even think to see if they had the WLR Cornish listed under meat birds, I just assumed it was different color flocks of Cornish. Maybe they are bred even more away from true Cornish that they don't even list them as meat birds?

I have birds already for a crossing project and I just keep looking at how meaty the Cornish are! I need to see how the current project goes before I buy more :oops: But a DC group or DCxTurken project is still so very tempting!

In another thread there was posts that people got some nice red laced cornish from mcmurray, not great but promising meaty birds. But they were from 2011 and 2012. So dunno how accurate that would be to what they are now.
 
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Huh, I didn't even think to see if they had the WLR Cornish listed under meat birds, I just assumed it was different color flocks of Cornish. Maybe they are bred even more away from true Cornish that they don't even list them as meat birds?

I have birds already for a crossing project and I just keep looking at how meaty the Cornish are! I need to see how the current project goes before I buy more :oops: But a DC group or DCxTurken project is still so very tempting!
I have two dark Cornish cockerels that just started crowing, so far I am liking the short sound of their crow. Its not as intense and non stop like my Breese chickens. My Breese Roosters are loud and irritating, I had to put rooster collars on them.

I have a white Breese rooster crossed with a Lemon Cuckoo Orpington hen. All the roosters from this cross came out white with one blackish-grey tail feather with white or blue legs. They are the same age as the dark Cornish, but I had to put velcro crowing collars on them. The blackish-grey feather on their tail are found only on the roosters, the hens are fluffy pure white with blue legs.

I am going to cross my pure Dark Cornish roosters with my pure Breese Hens and cross the off springs with other related crosses for my ABCD hybrid experiments.
 
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Whats the difference between white and dark cornish? Why does white seem more rare/valuable? And why are these so hard to find!?
 
Most are poor layers.
Some lay a couple eggs a week for a couple months and then go broody.
Huh guess I didnt realize it was that poor. That's like 16 eggs a year? I suppose hatcheries offering Cornish exaggerate the egg laying abilities to encourage sales but the breeders supplying the hatcheries also probably select for good egg laying so they can sell more.
 

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