Cornish Thread

[fowlman01]

Dark Cornish bantam pullet.



Walt

 

[cochinman2005]

I thought I'd post a couple photos of this year's birds.

The Dark ckl and I had just jogged around the yard for a couple minutes. Actually he had jumped off the bale of straw and I was trying to catch him. Deceptively quick, at least short term. They wear out fast though! He was too tired to hold his wings up.


These guys are about 5 months old so still filling in.

 

[fowlman01]

I thought I'd post a couple photos of this year's birds.

The Dark ckl and I had just jogged around the yard for a couple minutes. Actually he had jumped off the bale of straw and I was trying to catch him. Deceptively quick, at least short term. They wear out fast though! He was too tired to hold his wings up.


These guys are about 5 months old so still filling in.

Nice birds..I like that dk's head.

Walt

 

[cochinman2005]

thanks Walt. Fun birds to work with.

Tom

 

[fowlman01]

thanks Walt. Fun birds to work with.

Tom

They are difficult birds to work with....especially the WLR's. You have good color and type

Walt

 

[kfacres]

A succession of pictures of the same bird.





His keel bone was still quite obvious, even sitting down, in this picture when I referred to him as 'ugly as sin' but one I liked.




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The muscle has been slowly filling the void between the upper bulge of his chest and his thighs, and the keel is flush now. I think he will continue to fill in that area and hope that the keel will eventually lie in a valley there

looks like his 'black' turned to 'red'.... oops... name him "Lucky"

 

[Cedarknob]

looks like his 'black' turned to 'red'.... oops... name him "Lucky"

He still has black where he had it as a chick, one way I identify him is by the black spot near his tail on the right side, but all of the males developed heavy red bleed due to being mixed variety, WC X DC. My WC cock has one copy of dominant white and two copies of recessive white, so the chicks hatched from him over my DCs are either white with heavy bleed or black.

 

[spangledcornish]

could be wrong but looks like a jubilee to me

 

[chickened]

Dark Cornish bantam pullet.



Walt

Is that your bird Walt? it looks like Chris Tamayos' lines. It is a nice bird.

 

[Cedarknob]

could be wrong but looks like a jubilee to me

All I know about jubilee colored Cornish is that I read they are double laced white on red. I don't think mine are really correct visually or close enough to it by genetics to be called that, so I don't, though that's probably the color that the cockerels come closest to in appearance. The same-cross pullets are nearly solid off-white with much less bleed showing and very little if any of it is red.