Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

KlopKlop the breeding is the fun part.

If I had not tried what people said could not be done I would not have Junior and Bertha.

I am looking forward to spring, Junior (fingers crossed) will have 7 women of his own, hos sister Bertha and the 6 CX's I a saving, if they all live. I am really excited to see what Jr with his height and largeness will bring to the CX's. I am thinking tall, big breasted, huge thighed broilers!

 

[gofeedthegirls]

He is purdy! I like his beard

Thank you again we love him!!

 

[KlopKlop]

KlopKlop  the breeding is the fun part.

If I had not tried what people said could not be done I would not have Junior and Bertha.

I am looking forward to spring, Junior (fingers crossed) will have 7 women of his own, hos sister Bertha and the 6 CX's I a saving, if they all live.  I am really excited to see what Jr with his height and largeness will bring to the CX's.  I am thinking tall, big breasted, huge thighed broilers!

Is JR a CX too?

 

[duluthralphie]

Jr. is Bert junior. He is half Cx & half Dixie rainbow

 

[Minniechickmama]

Ralphie, the ones KK got from me weren't the CRX, but something more along these lines

This is a young trio, about 6-7 months old that I hatched. I have been working with the LF Dark Cornish for 4 years now. I am working on White Laced Reds too, but they aren't the color pattern they should be, so I consider them a project still.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I just thought I would mention, I had a Dark Cornish cock out here that came from McMurray hatchery (before I bought my current DC stock), and he was a wonderful flock guardian. I hated whacking him when I did, but he got to doing sneak attacks on my daughter and me. That didn't work for me. But a couple of months before is d-day (day he got dead), I was reaching in through passed the nest boxes from the outside access to one of the small coops, and a hen squawked when she saw my hand he hit it with all 13 pounds of solid brickness. I could not move or feel my hand for 2 hours. I thought he shattered something. I was fine after I got feeling back. The moral of the story though, if you have a protective rooster around, don't go reaching your gloved hand in somewhere that it might be mistaken for a predator or rodent. I can laugh now, but that stung a bit.
The cock's name was Dumbledore, but the kids should have called him Voldemort!! Doesn't matter, cuz now he is worm food, and that was about 3 or 4 years ago.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

I always let my girls go into the chicken coop on their own every night.
Last night I came home and found one up high on the outside of the coop where I normally have potted herbs and one on the stoop in the back also outside of the coop. Probably nothing surprising to some of you but very odd for my girls.

 

[lalaland]

I mentioned that last weekend I met MCM to get some Cornish girls from her. They went through pseudo quarantine in a chicken tractor next to the coop the would be moving too so they could meet the flock in protection. Well tonight was moving night! After the lights shut down for the night and everyone was snoring, I snuck the Cornish gals onto the roosts and tucked them between the resident chickens. This should quickly integrate them to the flick.
This was the first time i have really handled them and I am really impressed with the density of their breasts. They are much firmer and fuller than the rainbows and i think that it is going to be a good cross.
I am excited for my first home breeding 'experiment' (I feel a little bad calling it that) but it will be a good learning experience and a chance to share with all of you!

Hope you wake up to a calm group of chickens this morning! It has been maybe 5 years since I've brought a rooster in, usually they grow up as chicks, so I am thinking on the best way to introduce Ralphie's Creamette Roo. I dunno, creamette is kind of femmy sounding to me. Maybe creamer. no....cream-o- , uh.....

Its going to be fun to hear about your breeding experiment. I've enjoyed reading Ralphie's exploits with the his cornish.

 

[lalaland]

I always let my girls go into the chicken coop on their own every night.
Last night I came home and found one up high on the outside of the coop where I normally have potted herbs and one on the stoop in the back also outside of the coop. Probably nothing surprising to some of you but very odd for my girls.

Its funny when they do that. A few years back, one of the sulmtaler pullets would try to roost on top of the coop. They are light colored, the roof is black, the moons are bright and there are soooo many owls, I always thought she would never last the night. And I would come home from work in the dark. And have to manuever an extension ladder through the pine branches and climb up there and get her. that went on for more than a week. I was so glad when she quit doing that.

This is the first fall in a very long time that I haven't had pullets, and they usually do try to roost in the pines. When they are way overhead, sometimes I can "shake" them down by climbing up on some lower branches and pulling on what I can reach. Not a nice thing to do, but....they usually only did the pine roost for a few nights because it is no fun getting shaken down in the dark. So it is a calmer fall without pullets.

 

[lalaland]

Ralphie, the ones KK got from me weren't the CRX, but something more along these lines


Minnie, the size of the leg! holy moly!
This is a young trio, about 6-7 months old that I hatched. I have been working with the LF Dark Cornish for 4 years now. I am working on White Laced Reds too, but they aren't the color pattern they should be, so I consider them a project still.