Cornish Thread

[freddy02]

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[spangledcornish]

Thank you very much Spangled, that was very helpful. Yes, dusky or greenish shanks are something I know to have been a problem in some of my pullet's past. The smokey chicks do have smokey colored shanks now, and I'm waiting to see how much they change. I guess I should not be concerned that I got both silvery white [many with black bleed showing] and black chicks from my white X dark breeding, or so determined to figure out why, and just be happy that they look to be wider and thicker than many of the others.

remeber that dominate white is a genetically black bird but the white gene masks the black

 

[Cedarknob]

Thank you Spangled. Yes, and the black chicks and white-leaking-black chicks [from my dark hens I think] makes me think I might have a cockerel with one copy of dominate white, and I'm hoping two copies of recessive white, which is producing the others [from my white pullets which I know for sure are recessive white]. Now if my WC were what I expected, he would have been a DC carrying two copies of c, and I would have hatched chicks looking like DC but split for white. I've never worked with white Cornish, but have discovered many hidden genes in another breed's white variety that are recessive white, including dominate white, that were not supposed to be there, and couldn't have been if someone had not gone outside the breed for a cross. Looking at my male makes me believe he sure hasn't had a cross from outside of the Cornish breed in his immediate past, but there's something in the wood pile somewhere. LOL If he has one copy of each, recessive and dominate, I have a bigger hill to climb. Since every thing from that pen hatched together, all I have to go by is down color to separate the chicks. Starting tomorrow, the eggs from that pen are all white over white, and the DCs are back under a DC.

 

[SD_Paulo]

Here are a couple photos of the trio I recently acquired. One shot show the clear spot one the hens.

 

[pepper48_98]

I had a roo with a bald spot that I lost this spring and just hatched one yesterday with one. The only one out of many chicks.

 

[SD_Paulo]

Pepper,

That's little guys bald spot is interesting.

The pullet and cockerel do not have the bald spot....yet. I was told that they develope the bald spot around 1yr of age. I plan to do a little more research on the lines and see what feedback I get from the veteran breeders.

I will post findings.

I'M STILL LOOKING FOR BANTAM SPANGLED CORNISH

 

[Cedarknob]

I like the looks of bantam Cornish, and would undoubtedly be smarter to be starting up with bantam rather than large fowl [feed costs are killing me], but I just can't see myself sitting at the table eating one of those tiny drumsticks. LOL Thanks for posting them.

 

[SD_Paulo]

Spangled Cornish-

Is that you Adam? It's Paulo in Ca.

 

[fowlman01]

Here are a couple photos of the trio I recently acquired. One shot show the clear spot one the hens.

Don't worry about the bare spot, the judges don't. This line of birds is from Bob Jones and he is a Master Breeder of Cornish. He has had many best of shows, which is not easy to do with Cornish and all of them have had that bare spot..

Walt

 

[spangledcornish]

Spangled Cornish-
Is that you Adam? It's Paulo in Ca.

hey Paulo, yes it is