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  1. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    My LF survive in the climate here without added heat or even a coop designed to stay above outside temperatures, but they don't truly thrive and certainly don't enjoy themselves in temperature extremes. They are not going to wander far from their shelters when the temperature gets much below...
  2. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Our winters aren't as extreme as yours, but mine live without heat with days here that seldom rise much above 0 on the C scale during the winter. They have three sided, tarp or plywood shelters in which to get out of the wind, snow, or freezing rain, but no heat or artificial lighting. So far...
  3. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    I remember reading that Brother Wilfred used birds from flocks he was charged with keeping, those bred for the meat and eggs for the school/monastery up there in Canada, to develop the Chantecler, and that Dark Cornish was one of those breeds he used. That bit of information helped convince me...
  4. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Welcome to the new comers to this thread. Looking forward to seeing pictures of your birds NJNick. Theri, I.m sorry that you are again a victim of Murphy's law. I don't know if the offer is of any help, but if you can figure out a way to get him to you, I have a spare, double blue laced red...
  5. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Seven days 'till.............................
  6. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Again, no experience with bantams. My large fowl cocks and cockerels can usually get a pecking order settled and maintain if never separated but not always. Once separated, or even re-penned with the same birds in a new pen, they cannot be trusted not to fight to the death, even though a joined...
  7. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    No experience with bantams and never seen 'pink' spots on my bird's feet, even on chicks raised on wire floors, but wonder if you're looking at abrasions. No splintery spots on their roosts are there? My large fowl have very low roosts. They fly like winged bricks and have poor landing skills. LOL
  8. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    He has a nice wide stance. May I ask where you ordered them from?
  9. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Congrats on getting some large fowl. My guess is that he is well past being a cockerel though.
  10. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Yeah, impacted crop may not be the correct thing to call this. It appeared they just left their crumbles alone and had crammed down more whole kernel corn than they could handle. The one still living when I found them had her crop filled with whole kernels of corn and even backed up her throat...
  11. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    That's very good to hear, perhaps Cornish are making a come-back. I wish I could make a few shows. I suppose I should subscribe, as it's very difficult to find the show results on the internet. I've often added whole corn to the feed in winter with no problems. This past week I started...
  12. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    The project thread is in the Meat Bird section, and I sometimes post pictures of my meat bird project and/or my pure Cornish there, as my Cornish serve as both a self-sustaining meat flock and adding some body to the blue egg laying, dual purpose bird I'm working at...
  13. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    A black, large fowl cockerel. After looking at the black Cornish bantams shown at Crossroads last year, I'm less concerned about the amount of black pigment on his legs. [Black is recognized in bantams but not in large fowl.] He carries one copy of recessive white, as will all my blacks; they...
  14. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Nice to see so many participating here with pictures of their current Cornish!
  15. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    Just to clarify that the present day type Cornish has been around awhile, there are some photos, taken by Arthur Rice in the 1930s, towards the bottom of the page at this link: http://www.poultryphotos.co.uk/asil_indian_montage.htm [They're copyrighted, so not to be uploaded.] Just a bit...
  16. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

  17. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    For the more recent joiners, here's a link for the 1905 APA SOP for what were then called Cornish Indians. The APA had them in the 'Games and Bantams' class back then...
  18. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    I started out in the beginning using a toe punch; cheap and permanent if done right. Wish I had stayed with it, but I wasn't good at hitting the tiny little web in the center and torn webs are hard to see later. I did learn that a bit of Rawleigh's Salve applied to the hole prevents them from...
  19. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    We have had snottiness here also......................and I have to confess that I've added to it a lot more than I would like to have. Thanks for the kind words.
  20. Cedarknob

    Cornish Thread

    I'm left with the best of my DC being killed by a badger, the best 3 were under the WC during spring breeding, then killed along with the cockerel when put under a dark..It set my dark line back but got my white line off to a good start. My back-up DC male was lost to heat in June, so the WC...
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