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

[big medicine]

I sold off the cushion combed youngsters for meat and layers a few weeks ago, some of them definately had a Chantecler look about them.

 

[kfacres]

what's up with the green heads? Maybe it's my eyes?

 

[kfacres]

A picture of the Dark Cornish cock- that couldn't get any more recent...

One of my original WLR project hens alongside.

You'll remember this pen, as being the one on the right.

As I'm in the process of moving, I have rearranged all the birds and the pens.

PS> he's missing some tail feathers- due to the guinea pair being penned also in the same pen... Again, I'm consolidating as many birds, into as few pens as I can.

 

[big medicine]

what's up with the green heads? Maybe it's my eyes?

Must be your eyes. Some of the cushion comb birds I sold a couple weeks ago.

 

[big medicine]

If someone is interested in any of these white birds, shoot me a PM, I don't figure to keep them. They are a long way toward a self sustaining home meat/ layer flock. I am continueing with their colored siblings. White would make more sense, but I think it may stem from Dad always having nothing but white birds, like some variety.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I don't need the Whites, but that Blue Laced girl in the front is BE-U-T-FULL!!

 

[big medicine]

I don't need the Whites, but that Blue Laced girl in the front is BE-U-T-FULL!!

That's my way of thinking, need to let the colored birds grow out and see who combines the best size, build, and color Good chance the whites are packing that under that white though.

 

[kfacres]

no, I rechecked-- and it's green on the heads.

 

[big medicine]

It's from one of those paintstick things you can get at TSC for marking cattle and such. When sorting birds say before a swap or something, I just give them a little color on the head before turning them out, and you can easily pick them out of the flock with out having to restudy all their pros and cons. Also handy using different colors if pricing is different for say pullets vs cockerels, or between breeds. It can also cut down on how often you have to say "No that one is a boy too" when they are wanting future laying hens. I truelly believe you could easily convince way too many people at some swaps you bred in a little pheasant, or parrot, to get the color.

 

[Cedarknob]

A picture of the Dark Cornish cock- that couldn't get any more recent...

One of my original WLR project hens alongside.

You'll remember this pen, as being the one on the right.

As I'm in the process of moving, I have rearranged all the birds and the pens.

PS> he's missing some tail feathers- due to the guinea pair being penned also in the same pen... Again, I'm consolidating as many birds, into as few pens as I can.

Rearranged pens in the process of moving???????????

Yes, that looks like it is him, but to me the picture looks like it was taken when he was much younger than he would be now and back when you had those two together. I can't tell which side of the shed that is. You already said on another thread that you had some pictures stored on a flash drive. A hen that looked like it could possibly be that one was with the darker crossbred. The guinea pair were in a tiny little pen outside of the chicken's shed this fall and had a very young chick with them. That bird was not to be seen on your place with any of your other birds late this summer or earlier this fall. It is possible he was still alive and somewhere else though, so I asked if you could take a recent picture of him and all the WLRs together. I will make it much simpler, just put some kind of white cloth around his neck, and snap a picture. [You might want to reset your dates first, the picture shows it was taken in May of 2011, so the year is off if the month.is right] I'm going to feel very humiliated if I'm wrong and you still have him, even feel bad already about bringing this drama to the thread if I'm right. However, I simply can't understand why you did not have him on your place with any of the others back when you said that you did; and said that you intended to breed his dark daughters to him when the only dark pullets are penned under the darker crossbred. If you still have him and show the new picture of him, I will not only apologize but give you a nice WC cockerel and pullet as a peace offering.