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

[galanie]

My one and only Cornish, the hatchery dark cornish, is broody

 

[Cedarknob]

My one and only Cornish, the hatchery dark cornish, is broody

I've got a very young DC trying to brood, but I'm not letting her. Also, of all things, a big CX gal is a little grumpy about coming off the nest. If I thought she would stick with it, I would let her sit, she could cover a lot of eggs [if she would just quit breaking them].

 

[draye]

Wow
This thread is very quite lately.

 

[Cedarknob]

Maybe this will help get us get going again. These are chicks hatched Sunday, a mixed hatch of pure Cornish chicks and Ameraucana X CX chicks. There's a large grey chick that is a true Cornish, but much larger than any of my others are at hatch. I'm sure it will feather a clean colored white.







Above the grey chick is one that I'm not sure will be a real bright white.

It is a pur Cornish from my white pen, The larger chicks with fluffier down are from my CX hens, and you can see muffs sticking out under their eyes. They hatch as huge chicks, and want to start eating and drinking right after they get out of the shell. When my humidity dropped in the incubator a bit, I tried to use the bottom half of an empty egg shell as a water reservoir because it was right under an air vent and very easy to pipe water to. The Ameraucana X CX chicks drank it, then went around eating anything they could find in the other shells.








The pure Cornish chicks are quite wide at the shoulder, and have the short backs tapering rapidly to the tail, even as babies.

 

[draye]

Thank you.

 

[draye]

Isn't anybody doing these projects anymore?
This thread was once very busy but now is too quite.
Where are all the old timers that wasposting so much before?

 

[Totalcolour]

Maybe it's just a busy time of the year for everyone

I just sold a bunch of chickens - and while I was collecting the ones for sale, I picked up a couple of my dark Cornish birds - WOW! 9-10 months old and talk about heavy. You just can't tell by looking at them, at least not compared with all my fluffy birds. I have a couple of Marans/Ameraucana roo/Cornish hen babies that are looking really nice too. And a lot bigger than their hatch mates.

Just got to wait for them to grow up!

 

[galanie]

This thread has been quiet but the other cornish thread has been busy. Plenty of the "old timers" of the thread were put off a while back for various reasons and so, crickets.

 

[kfacres]

Isn't anybody doing these projects anymore?
This thread was once very busy but now is too quite.
Where are all the old timers that wasposting so much before?

Don't worry... one of them is still on here posting away...under a new identity.

 

[Cedarknob]

I have a mixed pen of pure Cornish. Cornish X Ameraucanas, and Ameraucana X CX chicks. They're in that ugly stage of down, bald spots, and first feathers, but I will post some pictures anyway as soon as I buy new camera batteries.

Al, I apologize to you again for my posts to you when I was frustrated with my own ignorance of why my Cornish chicks were showing black bleed or even solid black, when I thought they should be white. Please accept my apology and post on this thread if it was my posts that caused you to withdraw.

For those wanting to breed white meat birds:

What I've learned is that breeders have used both dominant white and recessive white in White Cornish, evidently for many years, and I was totally clueless to this. [I had discovered this in another breed, but no experience with Cornish.] An old timer who seldom posts here, due to the dramas, was kind enough to share this with me by PM. I'm grateful to him for that. I know that the two genetic types of white do not work anything alike to suppress color, do not always play well together, and my chicks are evidently showing the signs of that.