DelawaresxCornish???

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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interesting... thanks for the reply... and i would love some pics... do you have the weight on any of your bigger ones??? it takes years of breeding for one thing to get a breed to do what you are breeding for... so good luck with them and keep me posted...

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

got my first 26 Delaware chicks today so i guess i can say this project is officially started

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

these chicks daddy weighed 11.78 pounds so im hoping to get some big birds out of these... i will start to hatch them out as soon as these start to lay in the spring... i would like to hatch out 2 or 300 next year... cant wait

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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do you have any more contact info for the guy you got them from??? i tried to search ebay for him got nothing

 

[estpr13]

I think godzillaskitty is a woman from Arkansas. I checked my records and found that I won 12 eggs on 10/12/08, received 16 eggs on 10/17/08, and had a 100% hatch rate on all 16 on 11/11/08. I gave away (to a brother) 8 of the smaller ones for food and ended up culling 3 others. ( I should have kept one of them. . . hindsight)

I looked on ebay to find godzillaskitty address and she isn't selling anything at the moment. I looked at some of the old shipping boxes that I received eggs but could not find one that old. I have subscribed to this thread and if I find out I will post her address.

Still no pictures of weight. I'll have to work on that this week.

 

[kooltex]

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hmmm they list them as (Cornish white) right next to the crosses i wonder if they are a cross as well... i think i will email them... anyone ever ordered from them???
here is the link http://homesteadhatchery.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=113

Hey did you e-mail them? If so did they reply back on those white cornish?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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hmmm they list them as (Cornish white) right next to the crosses i wonder if they are a cross as well... i think i will email them... anyone ever ordered from them???
here is the link http://homesteadhatchery.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=113

Hey did you e-mail them? If so did they reply back on those white cornish?

yep i emailed them and no they have not replied yet

 

[kooltex]

Awe bummer.

Why are the standard whites so hard to come by? You see white cornish bantams all over, what about the big un's. I happen to like the way the standard whites look. Wouldn't mind having a few around the farm.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i have read that the big broiler company's bought them all up after the Cornish x rock became the primary broiler... less competition...

 

[estpr13]

Try Sandhillpreservation here on BYC. I've been told that the birds don't fit the standard very well but they are a good try. I think the legs are too long and and a few other complaints but they are where I got my Dark Cornish and Included either by design or accident was a White Cornish hen who I have put in with my Del-corns. (Or Cor-dells) She was too young to be laying eggs when I was hatching out so I still don't have any of her offspring yet. Anyway I am pretty sure they have a few pure white Cornish.