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

[kfacresagain]

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hedge is the only peice of wood better than a cedar...

We spend alot of time dealing with erosion, whether that's dry dams, terraces, waterways, or conservation tillage. and timber stand improvent. Do alittle bit of stream bank stabilization, but mostly leave the big jobs up to the engineers. do a little nutrient managment/ manure. do some forestry plans, and grazing plans.

hmm... lets see what else?

speaking of willow? Any of them ever grow? Take a young, freshly cut green twig, and stick it in a moist place... started many a black willow like that before.... easiest of all trees to grow.

i was a dual major in college, forestry and animal sciences... dual minor too. nat resources and conservation.

previously worked for army corp engineers when i was still in school.. it was awesome.

A lot of the willow posting was also done in conjuction with the fish management boys in water quality/sediment control projects on trout fisheries on the Mad river. A good percentage took root and grew. Worked with the Army Corp. of Engineers on a regular basis, they owned a good bit of the land we co-managed.

small world... look at the topic of talk when we begin on chickens... cornish more specifically...

 

[al6517]

I was able to get a great deal on 10 doz hatching egg's here localy from a guy I know, they are new sex link super layer called Sil-Go's. They resemble a golden comet/cinn queen but were bred to lay in exccess of 300 eggs a year, and ready to lay 15wk's, and bred in Missouri. I am not planning on keeping any but sell them to friends and take them to my local poultry auction house. I want to use this opportunity to tweek the Al-a Bator for winter hatching.

 

[big medicine]

Good thinking, experiment with some none Cornish eggs. Those babies come too dear to play around with.

 

[Minniechickmama]

OR get yourself a few Silkie Hens who are notorious for going broody at the drop of a hat, and let THEM hatch eggs for you.

 

[big medicine]

One thing about Cornish, in my experience, it is much easier to raise same age chicks together than trying to mix small batches raised separtely later. They still retain enough game attitude that it can complicate things sometimes.

 

[al6517]

Gary that was my thinking, I wanted to see if there was any sort of incubator problem or with my temp & humidity devices. I don't think so though the devices have been calibrated and I am running several in there, the bator works fine but the only thing it could possibly be is something else, maybe an issue with the way I work the vent's during, I like to keep plenty of fresh air going in there.

I tried to use broody silkies once but the little things are so dumb they would sit to almost term then come off the nest to long for a few day's, only to go back and sit in an empty nest till it croaked. No more silkies and plus I need the pen space for birds. I already have a bunch of the soon to be chicks sold and may give some away to a nice old man down the road.

 

[al6517]

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True........... a week or so difference is ok but after that it's tough to keep them safe............... they are too costly too make mistakes LOL.

 

[kfacresagain]

Got my first Bantam DC egg today... Will be a very great fall if we can get enough to fill the 'bator.

Now, if the rest of the young pullets would start...

 

[kfacresagain]

took a bunch of pictures today. hopefully can get them uploaded tommorrow or this week..

pics of WLR Cornish pullets, BLR Cornish project birds, DC both LF and bantam, pair of Black Ameraucana, and a few Silkies... as well as my two other projects-- chocolate guineas and BBW turkeys. and my latest young trio of bronze birds that I've been working on for about 15 years.

 

[kfacres]

OK, back to the real account... for a while...

BLR Project cockeral, we call Hopalong. hopefully, he'll be sound enough to cover one pullet for a partial batch to get some replacement offspring. If you study him hard enough, you'll find some blueish colored feathers, and so I hope he's actually a blue bird, instead of black laced red.

The BLR project pullet. 3 pictures to get a general idea about her. She's really growing into a huge bird, which I suspect is her Brahma heritage coming out. Not quite as massive as the others, but much more frame. I'd really like to mate her to her hatch mate project k bird (above) for the first half of breeding season, and to the DC male (below) for the second half.

Here are the WLR project birds. The obviously are not as "Cornishy" as the other birds, as they do trace back to hatchery stock. 2 of them have quite a bit of black leakage coming through, especially on the neck feathers- which comes from the DC sire. One has the pepper look over her entire body. I plan on mating them to the DC male (below), with the exception of maybe the lightest one-- which I would like to try under the BLR project male; with hopes of his recessive white, and her dominate white- accidentally clicking together to create a solid white bird. If you study them hard enough, you begin to notice the double breast coming from the Cornish.

Some pictures of the DC male that we plan to breed with fairly heavy this fall. Quite a different beast than any of the other's we have on board. Very stout, Cornish like, and no where near as much frame as the females in the pen. The one picture shows a slight bit of his "heart" shape. We love this bird, and will likely keep back very many daughters to breed back to him-- both to increase cornish type, and stoutness.

A few pics of the DC bantam birds we have. Our oldest has begun laying, and I've been hearing the little roo squeeking a crow out for a week or so now. These little birds have taken our hearts over-- they have quickly become a farm favorite...

One last picture of our black Ameraucana male-- he's also going to be a very large bird. These and the Silkies are Kelly's little project. She thinks the Silkies are the neatest, and wants more of these for their blue eggs... Typical woman Compare the Ameraucana to any of the Cornish and you notice the sturdy frame, and wide stance is quite lacking.