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Dave, is your jubilee a true double lace with dominant white, or a splash out of your blue birds ?

I'd say you have a pretty good looking framework standing there. As to the paint, are you consistently getting that light blue, even from blue to black breedings ?

And blue laced red Cornish bantams are single laced. Isn't that right ? Been a while since I have seen one

Ok maybe a dumb question here, but are you judging by looks mostly, or are you physically grabbing and getting a hold of these birds. Many people are fooled on the weight/bulk of Cornish because they look smaller due to their tight feathering, might apply to crosses as well.

My dentist has a saying on the wall " Only brush the teeth you want to keep ". Same deal with closing up chickens at dark.

That, and when (if) the first chicks do hatch, the hen will leave the nest and later laid half baked eggs to die.

I suspect sometimes the flavor of wild killed game bird and waterfowl can be influenced somewhat by the lack of a complete bleed out as when processing domestic fowl.

Only without that livery flavor of woodcock. Been a few years since I have eaten one, or dove for that matter.

All chicks from such a cross should be colored, unless the dark Cornish also carries a hidden single copy of recessive white. As to the chicks being black, that would be determined by what is hiding under the recessive white. You could get yellow chicks from such a cross if say it is silver...

What's the back breeding on these birds ? Dominant white might be possible explanation..

The 2014 Ohio National was something extra special, Completely filling the Celeste building, which it normally does, but also overflowing well into the next building, which held all the sale birds and the exhibitions of waterfowl, turkeys, and maybe guineas if I remember correctly. Now the...

I'd hate to even hazard a guess, surely a much higher percentage of little birds. To tell you the truth a lot of years I don't even get down to that end of the building to look at the bantams. The last Ohio National ,back in 2014, (as 2015 was cancelled due to the AI scare). was I believe...

I vaccinate all the chicks I hatch for Marek's.

I think a person can get a fair idea on general type from a good written description, but for me good photos or illustrations really help me fix it in my head. That being said, nothing can compare to seeing good examples in the flesh. Still today about the time I get to thinking I may be getting...

I can't speak for everyone here but Dad raised top notch large fowl white Cornish for as long as I can remember, and never AI ed. He would have had no idea, or inclination, to even try.

That's what I'm trying to say, poorly. That you are always money ahead doing your homework and getting quality birds from a breeder than rolling the dice with hatchery birds, unless maybe somebody else is buying your feed for you.

True I suppose. But on the flip side, a high percentage of "maybe" chicks are what you should probably expect to receive mainly from most mail order hatcheries. Type wise anyway.

Yeah, line breeding can be used to concentrate and enhance any number of features/traits. Depending on the skill of the breeder, and sometimes luck, they can either good, or not so good traits.. I still keep a pen of the Cornish project birds, some of which are BLR.

You know I have never been able to get as nice tight pea combs on my Cornish project birds as I can on the Brahma project birds, and both carry a lot of the same blood. Might be some kind of genetic linkage with the high pea comb and muscle mass, something like with blue egg laying and pea combs.

Minnichickmomma you should be fine with the single laced dark male. The worst you should do is 50% black laced chicks if your hens carry a single copy of dominant white. If your females carry two copies you should get 100% WLR chicks. As to the comb, keep pickling the better combed birds for...