These chicks are out of our blue, and blue laced red cornish projects. Was way late hatching this year, as we moved these projects from Dad's to my place, building all the additional coop/run space put me behind in getting everybody seperated, and setting eggs.
The early chicks are out of the BLR pen which also included, two pure white Cornish hens who show a slightly greenish cast to their legs, and a blue hen, as I had no where else to house them at the time. I had the blue old male in a small pen, while construction was under way, and a spare BLR cock running at large among the assorted Brahmas waiting to be sorted and assigned their seperate breeding pens. At some point the BLR male got out of his pen and into general population, with run of the whole place, and half a dozen Brahmas cocks, and cockerels, the two cornish project males squared off, and both were dead before I even knew what was going on. Not sure if both got flipped, or possibly heart issue, was a very hot day, neither was beat up much.
So the blue male inherited all the project females. This gave him 15 hens, most Cornish breeders I have known prefer, pair, or at most trio matings. I figured I was getting good fertillity out of the BLR pen, and those hens should still be fertile for a short while, go ahead and keep setting eggs and see how the fertillity fared. Now this blue male is a three year old, and I was afraid he might not be up to the task. Not to worry, this old boys hens are about afraid to come out of the coop in the morning, or go in after him at night. He keeps himself, and the hens in good shape.tearing around the pasture. It is amazing how well/fast a cornish type bird, with a some leg under him, can move.
I have my blue laced red Brahma project birds in the other half off the coop with identical size fenced run. The cornish side is much more grazed, for lack of a better word. Similar number of birds, two males on Brahma side, but they don't seem to range as far from the coop, back corner getting pretty grown over.
Anyway, I have got some cushioned combed chicks out of the early hatches, the latter chicks are not yet big enough to be on the ground, and for me to really notice. But to answer your question, yeah these guys should have spunk to spare. There appears to be some variance in hardness of feather, some are built like the proverbial brick outhouse. I do not figure to need the slick combed birds for future breeders. I will try to get some photos up in the next couple days.
