Cornish Thread

Your birds look very nice but I do not agree my girl is lacking in anything. She is still very young and is well portioned for her age. She is a pure breed Cornish and not supposed to be as big as other breeds. He is 7 months old she is only 5
 
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Your birds look very nice but I do not agree my girl is lacking in anything. She is still very young and is well portioned for her age. She is a pure breed Cornish and not supposed to be as big as other breeds. He is 7 months old she is only 5
You're entitled to your own opinion, and I'm glad you like your birds. Those birds will work very well for a backyard flock, but in the showring, I doubt they'll fit in with the nation's best.

However, real, good Cornish, are actually very big birds compared to others. They might not have the elevational stance that many other breeds do, but weight wise, they'll put the smoke to. The cock I put a picture up, is probably a 14-16 pound bird chunk of meat.

A good Brahma will stand well over 2 ft. tall, but as you'll notice in this picture, these birds are no slouch. The board in the background is a oak handcut 2x6- meaning it's every bit of 6" in height. These birds will stand 14-16 inches in height. However, Cornish don't do much for height, that breed is all about weight.
 
Here is a pix of my Cornish roo and one of his girls at age 7 months he is quite handsome I think


If you were were going to go through the hassle of breeding up from a bantam, you may want cross a light colored Std WLR and select for the lightest colored birds year after year. If I was following correctly you indicate that your Cornish breed fine, which we have seen the same with ours. If you are set out on making whites that meet the standard, you will want to be careful using the birds pictured . This is just my opinion and I don't want to offend you. just give you some pointers of things that I see from this picture only. Both birds I would like to see more bone and width (I understand that they are young but it has been my experience with Cornish that they put that structure on first and grow into tit like teenagers (see my pic- 3/4 month old) and I would watch the tail angles could be the way they are standing but seem to be carried too high. As for the cockerel I would watch the combs on his offspring, looks a little off for a pea comb to me and will get passed on to the next generation. I will say this as having a couple of projects of my own it seem like when I get color I loose type and vice versa.

 
Hi I don't intend to use the birds pictured in my white breeding program they are to be crossed with my barred rocks and other dark Cornish hen. I have just secured some eggs to hatch that come from a white Maran roo and hen. As for width my roo is very thick and wide in the chest is just did not show that way in the side view.
 
what is commonly called a 'cornish hen' is not a cornish. It's actually a Cornish Rock (CX) bird butchered at a younger age and smaller body
Not mine. My birds are pure bred Cornish and not a Cornish X there is a such thing. I plan on breeding my Cornish roo with some barred rocks. The barred rocks just started laying so I will be trying to hatch some in about a month
 
Hi all would just like some opinions on these two dark males from Myer hatchery . Not gOing to show or any thing just want to breed for meat. Thanks in advance
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