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Wow, I hope they turn out good. So are you working on a dark colored one along with a white one?

Thats really cool, I wonder how he will grow out.

Looks like you have a good start to the project. Did the White Cornish you got arrive yet? I would love to see some pics of them

Kfacres, how well do those birds lay looks like they would be decent DP birds

I would think that since the bird is still carrying the Pea Comb gene, that the blue egg gene would act like it does with pea combed birds. That is an interesting question though

the extended black and melonic genes is what I was meaning. That is weird that you got wheaten and gold duckwing out of the cross, amazing what white might be hiding. That muffed pullet was very well built.

I have a recessive White Ameraucana Cockerel that is a pure white, I wonder if it is the fact that is from a blue line, so It carrys silver and not gold, so any leakage would just be silver white.

Oh, so the solid black bird is due to the recessive white being covered up by the black gene, that had enough melanizers to cover any leakages. For some reason I thought he hatched out of your DC line, this makes more sense. If you cross that bird back to the whites, it will further dilute the...

Im going to have to try smoking some chicken, and maybe a duck.

thats a big egg for a pullet.

Quote: I had only one Cornsh X Ameraucana egg set when the buffalo gnats wiped me out. It was laid by smallest Black Ameraucana and hatched out a small but meaty black pullet. She's in the DC cockerals' breeding pen but all quit laying when I moved. The most promising birds were Ameraucana X...

A.T. Hagan : You know, I think you folks are a confounded nuisance. I have been idly reading this thread since Katy started it last year, but it was never more than idle curiosity because I hate plucking chickens. But after awhile it started to get to me, but I still hate plucking chickens...

Quote: I wish I had something to show. I've never shown chickens; I started traveling to some shows last year looking for brood stock, though I'm happy to say an Ameraucana roo I purchased before the classes were judged won later. My current Ameraucanas come from a good source, but are too...

Steve Are you going to be showing at the state fair this year?

Quote: My CX came through the heat fine; I lost 4 to an owl before figureing out they were sleeping with their heads hanging out of the cage. The owl was just walking up, deheading them, and pulling what he could through the sides of the cage. Wow, these birds from Welp are alot stronger then...

For some reason, I havent lost any of my CX chicks, they are very very active birds, they are getting nice and plump though.

Quote: Have you weighed her yet? No I havent, I dont have a scale to weigh my birds yet.

Quote: I hope she's large bodied; my CX roo was simply too large to get in the proper position for live breeding on my Ameraucanas and EEs, though he was healthy enough and often tried. You may have to A.I.. Another bit of fortune for me ; my escaped Silver Ameraucana chick returned today...

Quote: Seems you got the same nice break in the heat that I did, Im amazed that I havent lost any of my CX grow outs to the heat, Im thinking about keeping back all of the pullets and possibly one stag for breeding, I have an awesome Buckeye Wyandotte cross that I would put the stag over, she...

Quote: Good thing it was only one, I lost two bantams and two large ducks last night. I think I have a gang coming through. Im building a pen for my CX right now and plan to make it the style that Joel Salatin uses but will put a skirt around it to prevent digging.