LF Cornish - Crossing White/Dark to work towards White

[Redhead Rae]

The two chicks are starting to show more spots. Not just dark/black spots but red spots as well. You can really see the difference between them and my older dark chick.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Just finished my third hatch from the group containing my White hen. Out of 13 eggs set, 8 were fertile, 7 made it to lock down and hatched. Of the 7, 5 are from my white girl. I think she likes hop-a-long better than the two Dark hens. I now have 7 chicks from the Dark/White pairing.

This little one has the cutest spots!

 

[smoothmule]

Love the project. What was the outcome? Any whites?

 

[smoothmule]

I have some whites. I’d love to improve the type

 

[Redhead Rae]

I'll get you some photos. The outcome of the cross is jubilee chicks.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I’m noticing the cockerels have a lot more bright red on their wings than the pullets. The red in the pullets is much more muted.

Cockerel

Pullet 1

Pullet 2

 

[Redhead Rae]

I've got a couple of nice looking chicks in the grow out pen.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Just for information to anyone following this thread. I had to put down HAL (Hop-a-long) the sire of these chicks. His injuries just caught up with him. The story about his injuries in in this post.

But today I made a step in the right direction, we just got rid of the last of our surplus bantam mix roosters and I was able to use their containment unit to set up my first breeding pen! This is Hop-a-long, one of 3 Cornish roos that was maimed by a bully Blue Cochin I had (I sold him), along with my two original Dark Cornish girls from my trio and the lone White I have left from eggs I got from Fairview01. I had a White cockerel hatch too but he died of suicidal stupidity. Hop-a-long has recovered nicely. He only has a lip if he tries to move fast.

I put HAL's father (Fat Daddy) in the pen with their mother in order to hatch more chicks.

 

[nicalandia]

I really like this project. Thanks for sharing.

I'm thinking about starting a project of producing a line of Cornish look a likes, I am saving a few colored Broiler pullets(one is red naked neck and the other one is barred brown red) and a slow growing white Cornishx, I will source a short legged Asil rooster to bring more of a game stance and the pea comb, the wide stance thick feet they already have it.

 

[Redhead Rae]

You're welcome. I'll probably be working on this project for a few years. So stay tuned!