Cornish Thread

[Cedarknob]

My understanding is that jubilee is the double laced white pattern over red instead of the double laced black over red of Dark Cornish. I did a test breeding of my White Cornish over a partridge type easter egg hen and got a chick with white down and black spots and two black chicks; he evidently carries one copy of dominant white and possibly no genes for lacing. When over recessive white pullets he threw white chicks. The same white pullets produced partridge colored down chicks while under one of my DC, but still too young to know the lace pattern they will have. My DC are all based on wheaten. A long time bantam breeder told me that the light colored down [wheaten based] is correct and that the other [partridge base] came from Wyandottes being used to improve lacing. Personally I do not know about this.

Nicol, to me "splash" is two copies of Bl [blue], and highly doubt that any of the white birds used have that gene.

For an example of a splash laced bird, look at Minniechick's picture of her cockerel that she hatched from Big Medicine's eggs; but it appears to be single laced rather than double laced. I would love to see the results of him put over a quality DC, but the chicks will be a genetic mix between single laced and double laced.

 

[Cedarknob]

The younger DC cockerel that was just starting to feather over the head in an earlier post.








The older cockerel from that post and a baby sister.







[The old picture of the two cockerels together.]

 

[aviangems]

Sorry to tell you this but the bird on the left is a female.

[The old picture of the two cockerels together.]

 

[Cedarknob]

Sorry to tell you this but the bird on the left is a female.

This is the same chick today. You said you liked the other much better, so I wanted to show them both now that his head has feathered and started to widen.



Until I moved that young pullet, pictured with the older cockerel this morning, from the brooder, there were only two DCs in that pen, and I think they are/were both cockerels Only a few pullet chicks from my DC are ever as dark as the young chick just feathering in that older picture , but when I do get one they always turn out to have better, bolder lacing. I've been watching it to see if it might be one of the bolder laced pullets, and pretty certain it is cockerel, though I do believe the last one just added is female.

 

[aviangems]

MY STANDARD WHITES

Original male


Original female


Bred by me







and they say that there are no SUPER standards left

 

[Cedarknob]

Aviangems, thank you for posting the pictures. The first two are the parents of the pair you sold me?

 

[mcrooke45]

Here are some pics of my dark cornish rooster Rocky.



He is the only bantam cornish I have right now. I have a LF cornish hen on the small side with him right now.
I am going to try and find some spangled cornish bantams to go with him.
Mark

 

[aviangems]

Cedarknob it is a shame that you were unable to get anything from the brother and sister you got from me.

 

[aviangems]

Yes those were their parents.

 

[Cedarknob]

Cedarknob it is a shame that you were unable to get anything from the brother and sister you got from me.

Probably so, and if she had not gotten sick I would have probably used her. On the other hand, she was on the small side and lighter built than I like, and I was afraid further line breeding probably would have made their offspring even smaller. I wanted him mostly to cross on my DC and to try him on some crossed pullets. I sure like the chicks off him crossed to my DC, even though the colors surprised me, so grateful to you for selling him to me, and very grateful he stayed healthy.

[She was healthy when I picked her up, Aviangems didn't sell her with any signs of illness. She must have picked up something at the show and started acting dumpy after they were here for awhile. I went ahead and culled her even though she recovered to a degree. The cock stayed healthy.]