Cornish Thread

[chickenboy100]

They sound nice the chickens you have. Any photos of the snow whites they sound pretty


I am beginning to think and from comments nice and not so nice that I am chasing a snip but chasing things can be fun.

I'll try to get some.
If you're talking about finding some white standards, you could always try to breed some yourself. Like take a light colored standard roo that would breed good with some larger white bantam hens. That's one of the ways alot of breed variaties are made, mainly from standard to bantam, but bantam to standard would work, too, I'd think. It'd take time, but, you'd get to have to pride in accomplishing it

 

[lacymorgan]

Thats a thought I might just do that

 

[chickenboy100]

Thats a thought I might just do that

Which ever route you take, good luck. But maybe instead of standard on bantam hens, maybe a bantam roo on standard hens. natrual breeding for at least a few gens and the hen wouldn't get squashed.....

Random question, how are you planning on artifically breeding when you get the large birds?

 

[lacymorgan]

I don't plan on having any breeds that I would have to do that. Still looking at what I would like to do. RIght now it is just barred rocks with a RI roo and Cornish roo with Barred and one Cornish hens

 

[chickenboy100]

I don't plan on having any breeds that I would have to do that. Still looking at what I would like to do. RIght now it is just barred rocks with a RI roo and Cornish roo with Barred and one Cornish hens

Well, any good quality standard Cornish would be too heavy to mate naturaly, the males can not mount the females, and if they can, not good enough to get 'the job' done.

 

[lacymorgan]

My dark pure breed Cornish is doing just fine on his hens

 

[chickenboy100]

Well that's cool. Hatching eggs?

 

[lacymorgan]

Here is a pix of my Cornish roo and one of his girls at age 7 months he is quite handsome I think

 

[kfacres]

Well, any good quality standard Cornish would be too heavy to mate naturaly, the males can not mount the females, and if they can, not good enough to get 'the job' done.

Not necessarily, the only Cornish that have the fertility issues are the extremely short legged, show ring oriented birds. As long as a person selects a longer legged replacement, natural mating will occur just fine. To the person who's interested in making a great backyard meat bird, whether they want to keep them pure or cross, these longer legged birds will work great. The only people who really should be using the extremely short legged birds are the few who want to partake in the show ring on a serious level. Speaking from experience, the people who are serious enough to show- likely have the breeding stock numbers kept small, and do an extreme job at management, therefore AI is feasible.


Then, there are the rest of us who really don't care much about keeping the birds to the SOP, but strive to make a backyard meat bird unequalled to any other.

 

[kfacres]

Here is a pix of my Cornish roo and one of his girls at age 7 months he is quite handsome I think



From this angle the male looks good, but the hen looks lacking.
Here's my lead Dark cock, and a blue laced red pullet in the background.