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F2 chicks from my project. Hatching and raising chicks in the winter is a bit of extra hassle, but I do it to insure that my project line will come from parents that are winter hardy and winter layers. The breeding pen has no artificial lighting or heat, and it has been cold enough to freeze and...

Only to the degree that for now I'm leaving the option open of having a pen of birds that are not white in addition to staying the coarse for a white bird. I'm breeding for utility mostly but white birds look better to me when plucked and processed with their skins on. No one, including myself...

Naturally, with their parents being the a cross of birds of such opposite type [Ameraucana and white commercial broilers a.k.a. Cornish Rocks] there is some diversity in the F2s. LOL So far though they are all faster growing and more meaty than Ameraucanas. LOL Actually they look much like...

The F2 Cornish Rocky chicks are mostly white, though some show some black or blue leaking and I get the occasional chick that is colored. This one is blue barred. He's a big and pretty meaty chick and looks much bigger than the same age Cornish chick to the right,and the one peaking...

Single blue laced is an accepted color in Cornish bantams, and the SOP does call for dark blue lacing on them.

Thank you. She's better, in my opinion, than she looks in the picture, as she's actually a bit wider in stance than she appears there. I prefer the lighter blue color of her sister though.

A large fowl Black Cornish hatched from using a WC of Herring blood over my DC hens. With him used over one of my double laced blue females, I can develop a blue line, though guessing they might have a tendency to throw some males with red on their necks or shoulders. Both of the mentioned...

Three of my 2011 Dark Cornish hens. The one on the right lost the right side of her chest to a badger, but survived and went back to laying to produce some fall chicks off my WC cock. Another White Cornish pullet hatched in late May this year, nevt to an even younger Dark Cornish pullet.

My white, large fowl Cornish. I'm grateful to Aviengems of Miami, FL for selling him to me; and doubly grateful that he has proved to be adaptable to the climate here and a fertile breeder. I have a muffed, white daughter of his in my project pen now, with some 3/4, DC blooded muffed pullets to...

Thank you both. The story that went with their mothers was they were supposed to be pure WC offspring of the last, highly inbred, living pair that descended from a pair purchased many years ago direct from Lewis Strait. However, I was told by two different people that the guy had tried and...

Some White Cornish with a project Black Cornish, mixed variety Dark/White, plus some Darks; all hatched.in late spring. A nice DC cockerel next to a WC pullet; both hatched in late spring.

A couple of project blue laced red Cornish pullets hatched this summer. They're hard feathered and have nice type; not sure what their mothers had mixed in with the white Cornish, but were obviously splash under recessive white as every chick sired by my DCs was blue laced red. These two will be...

A project Cornish Rocky [Cornish Rock EE] pullet, hatched in late spring and have been laying for quite awhile so I've got a handful of F2 chicks from them hatched this fall. As you can see, they're large, meaty. plus they lay large eggs with some being green and others more blue in color.

Might be MIA for a day or two. Realized I've been taking these prostate prescriptions I went after today for 30 days, they're not helping the 'going' problem, and seem to be having a bad effect. [I just googled they can cause mental and physical problems that I realized today have been building...

I looked again before taking off. If you're saying that is new picture but you forgot to put something around his neck, and either he will still be there when I come, or you get that picture of him with the marker, I'll be there this afternoon with two WCs.

I can't always trust my memory. Maybe you can't either. Please listen. I want to put to an end to this drama. My laptop only has a 13" wide monitor, and I never thought to make that last picture larger so I could see the single lace pattern of the Big Medicine crossbred until yesterday. Anyone...

My only request is to make it from the front and include the entire chest area of him. The darker Big Med crossbred had the black or near black single lacing that the other recently pictured bird appears to have on his lower body under and behind the wings when I finally clicked on it for a...

Yeah, I remember reading that a cushion comb is a genetic meld of pea and rose combs, and Big Med's birds have both of the latter types in their backgrounds. However, it seems to me that only a small percentage of pea x rose crosses are cushion combed, and I don't know what takes place when the...

Actually I like a cushion comb, but don't know if the genetics of it works the same as the pea comb does in relationship to the blue egg gene. My F1, Ameraucana X CX birds are heterozygous for both blue eggs, muffs, and pea combs; they all have pea combs [though the cockerels have huge ones lol]...

I just don't have the time and money to have anything more going than I do now. Some of the chicks from your eggs had cushion combs, including one white if I remember right, and they were pretty soft feathered, so kind of regret not keeping some just for utility as they would have probably been...