Cornish Thread

[OHmamma]

They look beautiful but I certainly wouldn't want to find one in the yard. We just get an occasional garter snake here. My chickens eat them up!!

We like to watch them play keep away with them.

I was wondering what color egg my Cornish bantam should be laying. I have them running loose right now and I have been finding a little cream colored egg in random spots. They should just be starting to lay but I haven't seen anything for sure yet. I hate to pen them up unless it is time for them to start breeding. Tank tries to mount anything he can catch right now. Or at least he holds them by the neck and stand there and wiggles while they try to get away. I hope I don't have to pick him up and put him on the hens!!

 

[kfacres]

mine lay tiny cream colored eggs. smaller than a silkie, about same circumference, but shorter and more round. I have one that lays a dark egg every once in a while... don't know why, or which one.

 

[Cedarknob]

We call them bull snakes, as chickened said, and they can eat baby chicks, [some say they swallow eggs

]. but are great mousers. If they do swallow an egg, I doubt they they will be able to get back out through the pen wire. I did not try to measure either of them, but pretty sure both were under 4 feet long, the male probably not much over 3 feet. I've seen one bigger, or thicker anyway, but that was years ago, and have only been seeing small bulls and the little striped garters out in my pasture until now.

When cornered, they will try to fake like a rattler by coiling up and flattening their heads with their mouth open, strike at people or dogs, and can even make a rattle noise with their tails if they are in dry leaves, but they are harmless.

OBMamma, I don't have bantams, but my large fowl lay lightly tinted eggs, with an occasional darker one coming from both varieties.

 

[OHmamma]

Thanks guys. I also had a silkie hen running around, so I am not sure whose egg it might be. It was small and cream colored it wasn't shaped like the last egg I had seen from the silkie so I penned the trio up today just in case. They do not seem to like it much.

I am really wanting chicks from these guys but I am afraid that if I want more I will have to drive to WV and get some from the original breeder. I can't see this fat roo topping any hen.

Here is a dumb question....Are cornish bantam like serama? Are the tiniest ones infertile or harder to raise?

-Nicol

 

[aviangems]

The only problem with cornish bantams can be males with poor libido / fertility.

 

[chickened]

Thanks guys. I also had a silkie hen running around, so I am not sure whose egg it might be. It was small and cream colored it wasn't shaped like the last egg I had seen from the silkie so I penned the trio up today just in case. They do not seem to like it much.

I am really wanting chicks from these guys but I am afraid that if I want more I will have to drive to WV and get some from the original breeder. I can't see this fat roo topping any hen.

Here is a dumb question....Are cornish bantam like serama? Are the tiniest ones infertile or harder to raise?

-Nicol

The cornish eggs are more rounded than silkies usally and a little darker.

Cornish have a tendency to naturally breed out the short stubby legs on the hens in a few generations if not selected for shorter legs. I think this happens to correct possible issues with reproduction ability. Chickens with short fat stubby legs is not natural and is constantly self correcting.

 

[SD_Paulo]

I just started setting a few eggs. I was wondering what other breeders of show bantam Cornish fertility percentages run?????

I would like to gauge my birds fertility average. They are batting 500.

 

[chickened]

I just started setting a few eggs. I was wondering what other breeders of show bantam Cornish fertility percentages run?????
I would like to gauge my birds fertility average. They are batting 500.

I used to have jubilees and fertility was not an issue they just laid very few eggs. Infertilitys' worst enemy is inbreeding, I think the stats are 3% per generation.

 

[SD_Paulo]

My Bantam Darks are consistantly laying every other day so I feel fortunate in that way.

 

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