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Wow! Lavender is such a nice contrast with those yellow, yellow legs!

To heat or not to heat?...that is the question. We get temperatures below -30 Celsius. At that temperature when you breathe in through your nose, the hairs in your nostrils freeze together. Single combed birds have their combs completely frozen, turn black and fall off. If you do not...

Oh...the bantams have been acclimatized to the cold. I have had them for three years now.

The white large fowl came from a breeder who kept the coop at +10 degree Celsius. I was warned not to put them outside without acclimatizing them. My bantams are good quality and tough little beggars to boot. They have a heat lamp and that is it. They weren't happy but I didn't lose any at...

He is pretty meaty, Cedarknob. My problem is having a warm enough place for them. They are in the above 0 Celsius pump house right now. This summer I need to get a warmer coop made for them.

So I touched base here before Christmas, then things got real busy real fast. I have had bantam Cornish for a couple years, and scouted out some large fowl last month. Here is one of the adult roosters. I have some youngsters from another breeder but no pictures yet.

Hey! I am not following the red laced Cornish project page! I don't see what is posted there so please post here too!

Ooh! I like these three best! Are they the same bird? Is this a special photography booth? Great idea!

Gootziecat, I love the type on your RLW. Have you been breeding them long or are they a new breed for you?

Harrumph! Who is calling who crazy here? I resemble that remark! I have used zip ties, but I find the nice coloured ones I have are weak and will break off.

And here you just live down the road from me, TJ!

Hey, hey Triple J! Let's both head over there and straighten them out! Nice Cornish pics, everyone! I think I should have some up by the end of the weekend. I have some bantam darks, rlw and blr I hatched last spring. I also have LF whites I bought last week. A new question!!! Who finds...

My young ones were beating the **** out of my Houdans and Crevecours. I had to separate them. And for what it is worth, my Cornish are deadly on mice.

I adore the spangled! Is this a Canadian breeder?

Ah, the pearl eye. What a conundrum. Most of the pearls I have seen are a lustrous yellowish white but I imagine a pearl eye is a nacreous silver grey. What color IS pearl?

But where does one buy a big bag of caterpillars?

You are right, a bird without a perpencity to deposit yellow in the legs will not have their legs turn yellow from these foods. Cornish should have yellow legs and caterpillars make them yellower! It wouldn't work with, say, an Ameraucana.

You want yellower legs? Feed your birds insects that eat greenery. Caterpillars, grasshoppers, etc. Here is how it works. Green plants are full of carotinoids. Insects that eat plants concentrate the carotenoids in their bodies. The birds eat the insects concentrate the carotenoids even...

Well, hi there Triple J! You and I may be battling it out at the next show! I just got some pretty nice LF white Cornish! I will try to get some pictures tomorrow. Only problem....they come from a breeder that has his coop at 15 degrees Celsius. Needless to say they are in the basement...

I willl take this one further. Most serious breeders I know with quality stock will NOT sell hatching eggs. Their reputation as a breeder is on the line and they will not let any birds go that are less than the quality they want to be seen, shown and reproduced. In other words, the only way...