Cornish Thread

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

We have bantams, and would love some LF.

 

[al6517]

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I take it nobody told you about the double secret initiation ritual ? Of course not, the first rule of Cornish Club is ............

 

[sgoff]

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I take it nobody told you about the double secret initiation ritual ? Of course not, the first rule of Cornish Club is ............

Nope. But I have the secret decoder ring!

 

[kfacres]

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Nope. But I have the secret decoder ring!

Ha, but you don't... cuz it's really a handshake... Just goes to show a newby mistake of trying to fit in.

 

[sgoff]

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Nope. But I have the secret decoder ring!

Ha, but you don't... cuz it's really a handshake... Just goes to show a newby mistake of trying to fit in.

Ha! Hard to get into a club that keeps changing the special code!

 

[big medicine]

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Ha, but you don't... cuz it's really a handshake... Just goes to show a newby mistake of trying to fit in.

Ha! Hard to get into a club that keeps changing the special code!

As has been stated earlier, it takes a special kind of crazy to breed Cornish. The difficult initiation process helps weed out the rational folks who likely would have quit after a few years of dealing with these birds anyway. Thereby saving the breeding stock for the seriously afflicted. It is the twisted individual who persists through these trials and tribulations that demonstrates the required mindset felt needed to deal with breeding these, let's call them challenging birds.

 

[al6517]

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Ha! Hard to get into a club that keeps changing the special code!

As has been stated earlier, it takes a special kind of crazy to breed Cornish. The difficult initiation process helps weed out the rational folks who likely would have quit after a few years of dealing with these birds anyway. Thereby saving the breeding stock for the seriously afflicted. It is the twisted individual who persists through these trials and tribulations that demonstrates the required mindset felt needed to deal with breeding these, let's call them challenging birds.

How true........ How true !!!! LOL.

 

[sgoff]

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Ha! Hard to get into a club that keeps changing the special code!

As has been stated earlier, it takes a special kind of crazy to breed Cornish. The difficult initiation process helps weed out the rational folks who likely would have quit after a few years of dealing with these birds anyway. Thereby saving the breeding stock for the seriously afflicted. It is the twisted individual who persists through these trials and tribulations that demonstrates the required mindset felt needed to deal with breeding these, let's call them challenging birds.

From the sounds of that, I should fit right in.

 

[kfacres]

To keep the Cornish thread going... here's some pics I posted on another, but fit right in here...
OK, back to the real account... for a while...

BLR Project cockeral, we call Hopalong. hopefully, he'll be sound enough to cover one pullet for a partial batch to get some replacement offspring. If you study him hard enough, you'll find some blueish colored feathers, and so I hope he's actually a blue bird, instead of black laced red.

The BLR project pullet. 3 pictures to get a general idea about her. She's really growing into a huge bird, which I suspect is her Brahma heritage coming out. Not quite as massive as the others, but much more frame. I'd really like to mate her to her hatch mate project k bird (above) for the first half of breeding season, and to the DC male (below) for the second half.

Here are the WLR project birds. The obviously are not as "Cornishy" as the other birds, as they do trace back to hatchery stock. 2 of them have quite a bit of black leakage coming through, especially on the neck feathers- which comes from the DC sire. One has the pepper look over her entire body. I plan on mating them to the DC male (below), with the exception of maybe the lightest one-- which I would like to try under the BLR project male; with hopes of his recessive white, and her dominate white- accidentally clicking together to create a solid white bird. If you study them hard enough, you begin to notice the double breast coming from the Cornish.

Some pictures of the DC male that we plan to breed with fairly heavy this fall. Quite a different beast than any of the other's we have on board. Very stout, Cornish like, and no where near as much frame as the females in the pen. The one picture shows a slight bit of his "heart" shape. We love this bird, and will likely keep back very many daughters to breed back to him-- both to increase cornish type, and stoutness.

A few pics of the DC bantam birds we have. Our oldest has begun laying, and I've been hearing the little roo squeeking a crow out for a week or so now. These little birds have taken our hearts over-- they have quickly become a farm favorite...

One last picture of our black Ameraucana male-- he's also going to be a very large bird. These and the Silkies are Kelly's little project. She thinks the Silkies are the neatest, and wants more of these for their blue eggs... Typical woman Compare the Ameraucana to any of the Cornish and you notice the sturdy frame, and wide stance is quite lacking.

 

[spangledcornish]

great to see all the cornish here are a few of some standards we have raised, Sorry they are all from the 2009 year but we still have them just no current pics available