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

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Ouch is right .... heal quick.

Are you breeding Red Broilers to red Broilers if not then to what?

Maybe Al can send you a bit of HULK AI to experiment with.

Yes, right now they are Red Broiler x Red Broiler, I kept all the females and the best three males out of fifteen to start with, eventually I will be crossing them with the Katy Babies and the Freedom Rangers.

Here is one of my Katy Babies... they are VERY healthy and BIG! Oh and this one is just gorgeous... it looks brown under the flash but is a beautiful rich chocolate color...

And here are some of the Red Broilers free ranging with the layers before I separated everyone...

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

totalcolor - I can't believe your goose stole your chicks that is sooo funny! Here's a toast to your beginners luck with hatching, I hope it lasts forever! I myself am a TERRIBLE hatcher. If i can make myself ignore them they do fine . . .
I may have gotten it wrong when I started the thread forever ago . . . WLRC

mostly it's a meat bird project thread for a bunch of old chatterboxes who prefer going off topic without getting yelled at

WMR - I have to look back but I think that's the color my big red SMokey Joe was (the Daddy of yours)

 

[SteveH]

how long does beginner's luck last, anyway?!?!?)

Mine didn't last long, I hope yours never ends.

Molly GOOSE had stolen them and was hiding them under her wings!

Glad you got them back before the first swimming lesson.

Ok, this is the RED LACED CORNISH thread. Is there something special about this particular variety of Cornish, other than the colour

Not that I know of; the big difference is between hatchery stock and breeder stock. If I understand it correctly, WLRC are DC with a cross of dominate white added to dilute the black lacing to white lacing.​

 

[BarnChick]

This may be the really wrong place to ask, but I am going to try. I want to raise meat birds. Is there a way to get a cornish and then a separate white rock and breed them and raise them myself? I have searched around, but can't find the exact info that I am looking for.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

just the right place we LOVE to incourage the insane!!!

no really go for it, toatlly possible and most of us on here are working on something similar . . .

 

[knjinnm]

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Great story!

 

[BarnChick]

ok, so looking at the different hatcheries and choosing between mcmurray and meyer, which would you go with?

 

[knjinnm]

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Great color! Time for a memory refresher ... what is the chicks background?

 

[knjinnm]

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The luck is in keeping your flock young.
Al has his white Cornish roo, Hulk, and he's extending the guy's breeding buy using AI.
I don't recall Al mentioning whether or not he has Hulk Jr in the brooder yet.

 

[al6517]

I do have a few Hulk jr's on the ground and trying to get more this summer. I have had some good luck hatching everthing this year, even a blind squirel finds a nut every now and then LOL.

AL