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    Cochin, Fayoumi, Serama, Brahma

    What color are your Brahmas? And color of your Rocks?
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Wow, they look great. I like your weights. I recently started supplementing their feed with straight protein and have found their feathering to be faster and more complete. My first spring group of the year without protein boosting had a notable amount of feather picking. There are 78 chicks...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    I gotta say, I DO like your packaging - I didn't have a single egg cracked. I sent some hatching eggs to a friend in Colorado wrapped like you wrap yours, and she said every single one made it with pretty good air sacs and no hairline cracks. Neat trick, Fat Daddy.
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    They look great! I have to say I am super excited to finally have some white cornish. I hatched 7 chicks from your lines in my late spring hatch along with other cornish and layers. They are in the brooder and are doing very very well. Several were a little sluggish after vaccination day but...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Yup, those are definitely the price ranges. I was told just a few days ago an adult breeding pair would be $450 shipped but at the same time, I couldn't get any info from the breeder about flock history, health or even any pictures of the ones I would be buying. The breed is so rare that it...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Right, I guess I should've figured that was fairly common. Absorption crossing isn't new. And I suppose in desperate situations, say to preserve something rare or endangered, it has its value. But the phenotype being in line with white cornish doesn't make a white cornish if the genotype...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Congrats on the first group of new arrivals! It doesn't surprise me that there are both dominant white and recessive white in the modern white cornish genotype. Ok, so this "...chicks that hatch already white, tend to have Cornish X in their recent heritage...", what do you mean? Are you...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    No, they didn't, I wish I knew him. I too would love to try that cross of BressexWhite Cornish. The birds of mine that came out white are nice, very large, and stocky but they have some odd combs. A bonus is that they can be gender identified early because only the females develop the very blue...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Good to know, I did not know that about dominant white! It explains a lot in my yard. I have some Bresse hens and some of them yellow and some of them do not - ironically I crossbred them with dark cornish to see what type of meat cross I might get. The hens that yellowed produced white...
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    They look great. Healthy. Wide. Alert. Really white - do the white cornish tend to get yellowed before they are due a molt? Fat Daddy, do you put your birds on light to start the breeding season or let them adjust their hormones naturally?
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    White Cornish: Building a Quality, Sustainable Flock for Meat and More.....

    Yup. I watched that auction closely. Me and 8 other people according to eBay. If they would have had good pictures of solid stock and been willing to sell a dozen eggs, they would have easily commanded $10 per egg. BUT, its hard to pay $10 per egg when you literally have no idea what the stock...
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    Has anyone ever use Elector® PSP to treat mites?

    I use it. I started using Elector 4 months ago. Originally 2 of my coops had birds who had mites. I noticed them on my gloves one morning after scraping droppings boards. I had put my hand on the roost to steady myself and when I went inside and took the gloves off, I noticed scores of what...
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    I agree, the Marans x Legbar cross is a decent table bird. No big breasts, but decent size cockerels and mine were ready in 15 weeks. I would love to see your Breda crosses, do you have any pics? I've been wondering about a cross between them and Marans for a few months. I currently have a...
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    Vaccinations – My Research And How To Go About Vaccinating A Backyard Flock

    I know this is an old thread but I too had some curiosity about vaccine experiences. To date, of the birds I have sent to the state vet, none have had any of the major diseases. Yet. But, I have a neighbor who has Mareks per lab finding. So now I vaccinate. Has anyone come across any recent...
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    Can a broody hen sit for less than 21 days?

    I put her in a wire cage inside the coop but had to shut the door today because her only "friend" in the flock decided she should join her in the nest. How weird are chickens! I have fans in the coop windows but its 95-99 degrees inside during day time. If it was too hot, she would be panting...
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