Cornish Thread

[brahmapapa]

With only a quad of whites, it will be next year, at the earliest, before I will have any for sale. Your best bet is to look up the International Cornish Breeders list, or attend some of the larger APA shows and look there.

you have some beautiful birds, i will look around but if i can't find anything, i'll keep you in mind...thanks for the reply. good luck with your project.

 

[Cedarknob]

Large fowl Cornish. I will offer a dozen eggs, a mix of White, Dark, and DC split for White, from these Cornish in the BST section soon.

 

[Gofygure]

Can anyone educate me on the color genetics of the Dark Cornish? More specifically, I'm wondering about the red on them. Is it dominant or recessive? If I crossed a DC to a mahogany-colored bird, what would the chicks look like/have recessive?

I'd really appreciate any help on this. I tried looking it up on the web but I haven't found much by way of technical details.

You all have some beautiful birds, by the way.

 

[Cedarknob]

Can anyone educate me on the color genetics of the Dark Cornish? More specifically, I'm wondering about the red on them. Is it dominant or recessive? If I crossed a DC to a mahogany-colored bird, what would the chicks look like/have recessive?

I'd really appreciate any help on this. I tried looking it up on the web but I haven't found much by way of technical details.

You all have some beautiful birds, by the way.

Dark Cornish are supposed to be a bright mahogany red with double black lacing, but some hatchery stock appears to be gold based to me. Crossed to a solid mahogany bird, I think the get from a true Cornish should be mahogany red with some black patterned lace or spangle, and future generations should begin to divide back towards one of the parent's color.

 

[Gofygure]

Thanks for the information. That's exactly what I wanted to know!

 

[big medicine]

If I can get this to work, this is a link to a video of the Cornish bantams at the Crossroads show, For those of you that have never been able to get to a large show, this will give you a crash course in quality Cornish bantams. If you stick all the way to the end there are also some of the lesser seen colors.

 

[Cedarknob]

Because I've been contacted by PM by those interested in buying Cornish hatching eggs, I see no reason to offer the few I can spare in the BST section. Please send me a PM if you want on the list for the next dozen, and I'll get back to you.

 

[Cedarknob]

Well, my WC X DC crosses have not turned out as expected, all have hatched solid black so far, and even one white has black leaking. For that reason, I'm not shipping or offering to sell any hatching eggs until I see how some more hatch out, as I think they might be priced too high according to what I see on the first few to hatch. On the other hand, a solid black, large fowl Cornish of good quality might be interesting to me.

I was a little bummed out last week when eggs I expected to produce DCs carrying recessive white, hatched Black Cornish instead. The more I think about them, the better I like them. I was already planning to start a blue laced Cornish project which would take several generations to improve type and feather quality; but now I have another project color with good type and hard feathers already there from the start. I had a canceled shipment of eggs to someone who had found them locally, and was ready to make scrambled eggs since they were not what I had offered to sell, got to thinking about it, and made room in my incubator for them by sending some to the hatcher early.

 

[OHmamma]

Sorry I was out in the barn for a while

My cockerel..."Tank"




My Pullets..."Tink" and "Pet"



They are now 6 months old. Lots of crowing but no eggs yet......

 

[Cedarknob]

Thanks Bigmamma, I like blue laced color.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about the chicks coming from my White Cornish pen because the chick's colors are a bit surprising, though experience with other breeds of recessive white chickens prepared me to expect the unexpected. LOL

I have my WC cockerel over three WC pullets, three Dark Cornish pullets, and a couple of Easter Egg hens. [I have not tried hatching the EE's eggs because the incubator has been too full.] I know that all of the chicks are sired by my WC but no way of knowing which pullet laid which egg. I'm am getting the usual mix of white, yellowish white, and smokey white I've seen in other breeds that are recessive white, but also a couple of black chicks and a bunch that are white with a lot of black spots, but none that look like DC chicks. I think maybe my WC male is descended from someone mixing White Cornish with White Laced Red or Jubilee Cornish, and that he carries one copy of dominate white. I can understand why someone might think those two varieties might work well together, but introducing dominate white into a recessive white variety is not really a good idea in my opinion. Never-the-less, he was the only WC male I could find to buy, and a pretty good looking one at that, so will just have to work with what I have. I'm going to try to hatch a chick or two from my two Easter Egg hens. One is split for recessive white and the other isn't, and their eggs are very easy to tell apart. If I get a mostly white colored chick from the hen that lays the large green egg, I'll know my WC male carries dominate white.