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They turned out like heritage breeds, they were good layers, but terrible meat birds. My Breese/Cornish X cross cockerels grew fast and hit 12lbs at 5 month old and some hens hit 9lbs. This cross is ideal for a sustainable meat flock, but they eat to much to keep as layers, they are best...

I concluded that using ABCD from heritage breeds won't create fast growing broiler chickens. I got better results and a lot more info from crossing a Breese to Cornish X. In addition, what I am seeing from F2 are a few white Standard Cornish with pea comb, so I get to see the lines they used. I...

Okay so its been 6 weeks and the first 3 that hatched turned out to be fathered by my Cuckoo Lemon Orpington/Bresse cross, the hen was bred from a Bresse rooster which came from a different farm crossed with an Australorp, so this concludes my ABCD experiment. One of the chicks is white with...

This is how the Dark Cornish and White Plymouth Rock chicks look like after hatching. I am glad I got a chipmunk colored one to confirm the Dark Cornish father. I am looking forward to see if their breast get bigger than their White Plymouth Rock mother. I'll be using this bunch to cross with my...

I waiting for my Jumbo Cornish X pullets to lay eggs, they will be 5 months old on Oct 7, 2021. I feed them layer pellets to stimulate egg laying. My white Plymouth Rocks started laying early at 4 months, and they are the same age, so I am hopeful. The first Jumbo Cornish cross mating will be...

I don't see anything unusual about the first 3 Breese cross, they hatched on 9/9/21. In addition, I hatched 3 pure Breese for comparison, which hatched 5 days latter. I also have 4 fertile Dark Cornish/White Plymouth Rock eggs in my incubator going on day 11. I am hoping for a white color...

I am glad they all turned out with yellow fluff and straight toes. The black cross and the white cross hens were sisters from the same parents. The chick from the dark cross had dark legs and the other two had yellow legs when they hatched. The yellow legs should turn blue in a few weeks, and I...

I just put the first set of eggs on lock down, I ended up with 2 fertile eggs from the white cross hen and 1 egg from the black cross hen. The father is most likely from the pure Bresse, I used him because he was bigger and his sister had yellow legs, so his blood isn't exactly pure. I asked...

I have dark Cornish and white Plymouth Rocks just beginning to crow, but the hens haven't started to lay yet. I will use a pure Bresse hen with them for the three breeds in my next project. There are two options, I am leaning towards the second set, since they claim the Bresse chicken is like...

In this article they are using a white Cornish rooster paired with a white Plymouth rock hen for the a/b line and a white Plymouth Rock rooster paired with a New Hamster hen for the c/d line. They are using three different breeds to create the fast growing hybrid. I am also using 3 different...

He was locked up in there by himself about a month. I kept him in there to protect him from my dominant Breese rooster. I hung extra food out on the outside of the cage, so he gets to interact with the free ranging hens daily. But he also gets terrorized by the dominant Bresse rooster, every so...

I took the rooster out, he already did his thing, he did it an obscene amount of times. I felt sorry for the hen. Anyway, I think the first week of eggs will be from my other pure bred Bresse rooster, he was with her before I put the a/b rooster with her, so I will be doing two separate...

Everything on tract, I will use a Male Bresse/Lemon Orpington for my A and B line and a Female Bresse/Australorp for my C and D line. The Bresse roosters from the a/b and c/d crosses were from different farms and had different characters. Furthermore, the hens from the c/d cross (5 lbs) are much...

This was a very enlightening experience, I suspect the pure black one to be a Barbeziuex/Australorp cross, because it has white ear lobes. I remember seeing a 3 month old Barbeziuex cockerel mount a mature Australorp hen when they were free ranging. The other white Bresse/Australorp is from my...

For future reference: The Bresse/Lemon Orpington chicks were yellow with a little tan or buff coloring around the neck area. Their wing feathers are white and their yellow feet's are turning blue. Only two Bresse/Australorp chicks hatched, one was white and one was black, it was pure black with...

Cuckoo Lemon Orpington/Bresse chicks started hatching..................I wonder what color they will be? The females just started laying, so the eggs were small, I am not sure if this will affect their vigor. At least they have straight toes, their father's toes weren't perfect. Any lemon barred...

6 out of 9 Australorp/Bresse eggs were fertile........................

I am thinking that I will see a sex link mark on the males of the Cuckoo Lemon Orpington/Bresse cross. I was reading that the males will be barred.

I candled the cuckoo lemon orpington/bresse eggs tonight and I see 5 filling in, out of 14 eggs. I took out 9, at least I got chance to hatch a few. I also candled 2 eggs from a batch of 9 australorp/bresse. One was fertile and one wasn't. I started them a few days after the lemon orpington...

I ordered a really neat grill from Amazon, it separates the charcoal from the middle with adjustable spacing, it rotates with 1 D battery and it has a catch pan for the middle. I was so impressed with the design, I bought one...