Buff cornish

[ijon1]

They don't look cornish either.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

hatcheries take a lot of creative license with their breed names. I'm not complaining though; they serve a purpose, most people don't care and those of us who do know to go to breeders. The one near me sells bearded, tuftless, full rump Araucanas that lay green eggs . . .

 

[Illia]

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- Good point.

Take a look at just about every hatchery's "Madagascar Game," "Aseel," "Shamo," or other such rare game fowl. They really are NOT what they are said to be. The Madagascar Game, for one, are just Turkens. The only similarities between those two are that they both have no feathers on their necks.

 

[ijon1]

Thanks everyone for the information. I knew that my buff cornish didn't look right. Thanks Al for pointing that out, and you will never ruffle these old feathers. When I was growing up we always had just one kind of bird. That was leghorns. So I treat this a learning experience.

 

[NevadaRon]

Thanks from the "newb" too! Silly me, I always figured the hatcheries were being honest with me!

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

I have read somewhere, can't remember where right now, that the Buff Cornish are still a work in progress, in other words not yet perfected.
Saw the picture posted though of the Buff Cornish and I say that they look like a cornish should though.

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

Maybe someone on the white laced red cornish projest thread can help me out here.
I wnat ot know if I were to cross my buff cornish (hatchery birds) with my dark cornish (more hatchery birds, but look more like cornish are suppose to look) would most of the offspring be buff colored and look more like cornish are suppose to look like?

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I am not the expert to help you on that, however I can direct you to the right place

go to the breeds thread and do a search for color calculator . . . it's fun and hard at the same time.
wayyyyy over my head, nothing is as easy as if I cross black with white what will I get, because you have different levels of both black and white but you can spend HOURS on the darn thing!

 

[Illia]

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The best you can do when trying to improve Buff Cornish is by using a Wheaten bird. Honestly, since I don't think ANY hatchery even sells real Buff Cornish (bet you they're all Orps or Orp crosses) I think your best bet is to get one of them, then a Wheaten, say, Asil, and work from there. Course, Asil too are very rare and hatcheries don't sell them, no matter what they claim. . .

Otherwise, using a laced bird. . . I think you'll run into problems for a while.

 

[SteveH]

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I don't know if you would loose the black lacing with that cross . I'm sure no expert , but the pic towards the bottom of this link [ http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Cornish/BRKCornish.html ] looks to be of white laced buffs and the pic Illia provided looks like it may be the same but " incomplete " ; or having the lacing the broken because the color genetics for the lacing isn't pure . If I were you , and serious about developing a line of buff Cornish , I would cross the best white laced red Cornish I could find with the best buff Chantecler I could find . I would also join this group [ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cornish_breeders/ ] and get their input .
ETA : If you're wanting true Cornish quality I would suggest investing in breeder quality rather than hatchery quality birds , though I know by experience that breeders of quality Cornish and quality Chantecler are difficult to find and the birds aren't cheap