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  1. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Sounds like a plan- better to fix type and then worry about the colour!
  2. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but the genes for lacing are inherited separately from the blue genes. So if these were my birds I'd cross them to the ones with the best lacing. You can get the blue colour back more easily than you can get quality lacing, from a genetics perspective.
  3. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    OOOOhhhhhhhhh they are all lovely! I am very jealous. I got ten hatchery Cornish this year- they are truly dismal, like dark cornish coloured leghorns really. The only plus is that they lay lots of small eggs, perfect for pickling. But they are lousy Cornish. Sigh.
  4. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Dave he's lovely, very impressive already and only five months! Very, very nice.
  5. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    He's lovely! I just love that colour. I'll bet he breeds some lovely chicks for you.
  6. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Sambat that's one handsome fellow!
  7. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Interesting that the green legs will turn yellow. I had a very interesting unexpected chick from my Buckeye/Cornish cross, he was either recessive everything or a sport- he had bright green legs, weird colour and a very strange lean body type. I could explain the green legs but not the body...
  8. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Oh no! Why is it never a cull chicken?? Sorry Dave C she was a lovely bird. A real shame. Good luck with the chicks.
  9. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    You can always order some more, and try again! mmmmm smoked chicken...............
  10. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    I don't know about bantam Cornish but standard Cornish over Malines hens produces amazing meaties.
  11. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Is that from a Cornish hen?
  12. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Ouch, only one.......... hopefully your chick grows up to be a nice one. I had ZERO result from two dozen shipped Buckeye eggs this spring so I know how that goes!
  13. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Very nice! What is the very last chick?
  14. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Good luck with hatches and chicks! My oh-so-reliably - dark cornish broody hen was sitting on 15 eggs under some bushes- found her last night. So she's back in the dog pen of broody shame, really unhappy- the eggs weren't fertile so she would have been out of luck anyway.
  15. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

  16. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    How many of these cross chicks did you hatch? I crossed a Buckeye to Cornish, most turned out exactly as expected, very nice, midway in body type between the two breeds but much faster growing. But one cockerel was a weird throwback or something- very tall, very long legs, emu- like, you'd...
  17. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    A Cornish is a great heritage meat bird !!
  18. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    Perhaps those two breeds just don't nick together. Have a look at the cornish/australorp crosses turned into a breed here, the Welsh Black: Intended to be more of a dual purpose fowl, but it's still a great read: http://castlefarmeggs.co.uk/?page_id=787 It's worth a few trials, to see what...
  19. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    I had a hatchery stock cockerel that was quite decent, but it would have taken two of him to make one Bam Bam.
  20. CanadianBuckeye

    Cornish Thread

    @lpatelski how is Bam Bam' s fertility holding up? Do you have a Bam Bam Jr. selected to carry on with the dark cornish, or will you introduce a new cock bird?
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