Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

[kfacres]

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You're welcome Jody. The bantam DC had gotten so red in the face and comb that I started looking for eggs the past week; I hope your bantam cockeral is old enough to get busy soon.

I also think that LF DC cockeral is going to be a very nice bird by next year.

I'm pretty tired, but had a great time at the weight pull this weekend. My pup took third place both days, which is very good considering it's his first event and I haven't spent the time training and conditioning that I should............................ there were 10 dogs in his weight class and I expected at least 4 or 5 to beat him.

congrats on the dog, sounds like a pup with great potential...

I put a nest box in the bantam pen today, but haven't seen anything yet either. I hope they start soon.. I plan to put the whole group in the green house for the winter, as to hope they continue laying real well all winter long... I'd think the little roo should be big enough to do his job- he's got some tail feathers and the other day as I was cleaning the pen out, a stupid silkie pullet got in with them; and he showed like he wanted to fight. Roughed out neck feathers and all.. His comb is red, and wattles are coming in.. I know that he's supposed to be the oldest of the 3 I have, and the two pullets came from the next 2 respective hatches... The breeder thought the older of the pullets should be about 4 weeks away from eggs when I got them; I think it's been about 4 weeks; but she's not as red as the big pullet from you...

Steve, one more question.. How much younger is the bantam pullet than the DC cockeral from Joe? When would you have guessed them to have hatched; were they from the same litter/ hatch?

The DC, LF cockeral.. impresses me... Now we just have to come up with a name, we name everything around here...

 

[Totalcolour]

So, I have some Cornish (hatchery, so not very good) and some Polish (show culls). I was thinking of doing a Polish /Cornish - does this make a "Pornish" bird? (Hubby said it did, maybe I should do it the other way round then, a Cornish on a Polish) don't want to offend anyone

 

[al6517]

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you may end up with a creation that might be a little light in the britches as we old timers say...........

 

[SteveH]

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Joe????????????
The bantam would have been off Jon's stock, but not sure when it was hatched, other than the oldest of the young LF, DC chicks appeared to be at least a week younger than those I have from Gary, which hatched June 25/26 [22 and 23 days after being set, they ran long]. I had told Jon I never wanted any bantams, but knew of someone who did, so if he wanted to get toss one in I would take it.

Jon had got the LF, DC hens and a roo from Sharon, along with some eggs. When we talked on the phone, he said he never knew how many he had hatched, but to come over if I wanted any because he only was keeping three for sure. He had allowed the bantam Cornish to incubate those eggs that he got with the adults, and the bantam's own, plus the ones they laid later, and said there were several hatches, but only the LF had hatched. The oldest still had a bit of down on their faces, so I'm guessing they were more like three weeks younger than the project Cornish, and know the last two hatched were only a few days old and still being brooded by a bantam. I can only speculate that a bantam hatched in the first group, and somehow Jon never noticed; unless she's the pullet he said I could have if I wanted and he threw an older bantam in as well.

He did not seem to know exactly when anything hatched, or even how many. He was netting birds and talking, sometimes through a closed coop door, as I caged them. Once when he asked "Do you want this one too?" I was outside and couldn't even see what he was talking about, so I just said "Sure"

Later when we visited, I was more interested in learning what I could about the Dark Cornish color and type in general. [By the way, he disagrees about improoving laceing by crossing DC and WLRs, says you get more with patterns messed up than those with improovements.]

My best guess would be that if the youngest bantam pullet hatched with the oldest LFs in July, and based on how far they were behind in size and feathering than the project Cornish, that was probably towards the middle of July.......................... but I could be completely wrong..................... I really wasn't going to question him about a bantam he was giving me for free.

 

[kfacres]

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Once when he asked "Do you want this one too?" I was outside and couldn't even see what he was talking about, so I just said "Sure"

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OK, this sure clears things up... I was thinking Joe, not Jon... Guess all I lacked was 1/3 of the letters...

The except I pulled out sounds like something I would have done?

I'm thoroughly impressed with the whole group...

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Heard one of the Dark Cornish crow for the first time this weekend. Maybe I'll be able to get that project moving by this winter!

 

[SteveH]

A.T. Hagan :

Heard one of the Dark Cornish crow for the first time this weekend. Maybe I'll be able to get that project moving by this winter!

That's good news, and I hope you share the experience with us.

I can't even seem to keep mine safe. Its turned out it wasn't an owl that got my favorite Aseel. I've lost two CX pullets; one while I was at the weight pull Sunday and the latest yesterday while I was feeding others in a pen on the other side of the place. I heard the others screaming, and got there just in time to see it start feeding on a fresh kill. This morning it was back, sitting on the fence waiting for the chickens to come back out of hiding in the coop.

 

[Totalcolour]

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So sorry bout that Steve - what you going to do? If not an Owl, hawk?

 

[SteveH]

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So sorry bout that Steve - what you going to do? If not an Owl, hawk?

Sorry, yes it's a hawk.

 

[big medicine]

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So sorry bout that Steve - what you going to do? If not an Owl, hawk?

Sorry, yes it's a hawk.

A Cooper migrating through ?