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Looking for a breeding trio or quad or even two pairs of good blue egg laying ameracana in Southern Illinois. Do not have to be sop birds, can be less than. These are just some birds to run with our general egg layers so my kids have a little something different to pick egg wise. and hatch some...

Looking for a breeding trio or quad or even two pairs of good blue egg laying ameracana in Southern Illinois. Do not have to be sop birds, can be less than. These are just some birds to run with our general egg layers so my kids have a little something different to pick egg wise. and hatch some...

big and meaty are 2 completely different things. I've seen plenty of fast growing BIG cochin and brahma cockerels, yet they never did mature out to have any meat on their bones.

Black Cornish do not exist. Real Cornish are not adding any 'fast' growth. Matter of factly, they're slowing down maturity rates. This breed is by some margin extremely slow to mature.

my hatchery based silkies were pathetic layers. Only reason they remained was to be an incubator. good thing I'm married-- I don't have to worry about being attractive anymore.

I've had bantam cornisb.. very good bantam cornish... I've never seen a leg horn as small as them. Isn't much out there as small as a bantam cornisb

And... there Is no such thing as a red laced cornish. I hate that title. It's bogus... they are called something laced red... like white laced red. Blue laced red. Black laced red. Etc

A mutt that doesn't lay as good as a leg horn nor has as much meat as a Cornish bantam. Anytime leg horn and meat is mentioned in the same sentence the only thing that would rival them for a poor choice would be a silkie. The rir Cornish cross would yield a bird that laid eggs and tasted...

Research colors better. You're way off base. Genetics in general are simple. Each offspring gets one chromosome copy from each parent. Your philosophy is bogus.

I'm with Hellbender with regards to the masculity/ aggressive/ fertility correlation. I'll go one step further towards what I think he is trying to get across. The effects are not seen in the first generation, but it's in the 2nd 3rd or more. I can testify that by keeping the physically good...

Remember, Cornish people don't really care about eggs. They only care which ones are fertile and actually hatch.... LOL

I know, but as I have already stated over and over, not everyone participating on this site is as understanding and realistic minded as I am. Yes, there are GMO occuring, but it is to fill a very specific void and create something much needed. To modify these chickens isn't needed, can't be...

Genetic selection at it's finest. Genetic selection has created these birds, and can continue to 'improve' them further. This is the exact reason why we have miniature Jerseys and Herefords, as well as the original Chianina and Belgium Blue cattle. Exact reasons why we have Jumbo Cortnix...

I wouldn't say plastic... it's taken them 60 years to get this far. Genetic selection is an amazing thing. Nothing else quite like it.

Likewise, these birds aren't bred to lay either. yes, they'll lay large eggs, of course, they'll also lay small ones, and flat ones, and round ones, and double yolked ones, and even triple yolked ones. they'll lay an egg of every shape and size, and every kind of yolk. Most will be infertile...

You have confused the fact that Cornish and Cornish rock butcher birds are related genetically. They are, but it's no closer than humans are from Adam and eve. I too agree that the skeletal makeup of Cornish is the limiting factor. Typically in other species heavy muscled is linked with a...

Cornish eggs in general are very small, and actually almost perfectly round. If you are expecting large, or jumbo eggs, better find something new to expect. I don't see what the size of the egg has to do with anything in the Cornish breed, obviously nobody else has either and that's why...

I will vouch for big med and his birds.. Having met him, used his genetics, and bred my own from them- they are a bird that is nearly unmatched for a backyard sustainable flock, IMO. That was my marketing promo when we had them. I always felt the BLR color was the way I wanted to go, but had...

That's the point with white cornish- they are all recessive. However, the 'white' in White Laced Red Cornish, are typically dominant 'white'. I have experienced birds that have resulted in being 'almost' all white- and I believe they actually had one copy of dominate white and one that was...

Science and experience typically go hand in hand... but in this case breeding get experience in using the. Cornish rock hybrid birds in breeding projects trumps science. These birds can and will mate, however as I have already stated you can suspect tons of infertile eggs. Based on my...