Wanting to swap eggs for the spring of 2018?

[Poultrybreeder]

Here is a link to the threat I started about the cross, unfortunately, the last pic I took of them, and saved, was when they were 10 days old. But here ya go! Have a great evening and God Bless! https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/wacko-mixed-chicks.1175708/#post-18511876

 

[Redhead Rae]

i live in west virginia and you can direct message me for more information about where exactly i live for the shipping. i could do may as well. I cant wait for the eggs
to arrive! I wish it was spring already

Also maybe a barred plymoth rock... My mother would love a new chicken to add to her flock and her birthday is around the spring.

I'm in WV too. Are you only interested in banties? I only have Standards and I'm not particularly interested in smaller breeds. I have a Standard Black Cochin Roo, my avatar, who I can breed with Delawrare, Domininque (for black sex links with fluffy feet), New Hampshire, Buff Orp. I actually bred him with my Doms and Dom crosses and the babies are SO cute. They are now 5 weeks old and fluffing out like champs. The boys are barred and the girls are black. The buff behind them in the second pic is the hen who hatched them for me.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I'm in WV too. Are you only interested in banties? I only have Standards and I'm not particularly interested in smaller breeds. I have a Standard Black Cochin Roo, my avatar, who I can breed with Delawrare, Domininque (for black sex links with fluffy feet), New Hampshire, Buff Orp. I actually bred him with my Doms and Dom crosses and the babies are SO cute. They are now 5 weeks old and fluffing out like champs. The boys are barred and the girls are black. The buff behind them in the second pic is the hen who hatched them for me.
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what breed are the birds with all the barring?

 

[Redhead Rae]

what breed are the birds with all the barring?

All the chicks in the picture are black sex linked chicks from a Black Cochin roo over Dominique and Dom cross hens. All the hens are barred and the males get the barring gene from Mom, the girls don't, so they are black.

 

[pennyJo1960]

thanks for the lesson still learning I grew up with chickens to care for but there was just two kinds one for eggs the other to eat

 

[Redhead Rae]

thanks for the lesson still learning I grew up with chickens to care for but there was just two kinds one for eggs the other to eat

Gotcha, I started last year with Dual Purpose mutt birds (where the Doms and Dom crosses came from). I not really happy with the amount of meat on my DP birds. They are tasty, but scrawny. So, I just got a trio of show quality Standard Dark Cornish for meat birds for my family. Unfortunately, with only 2 hens I won't have any eggs to spare in trade this spring as I'll be hatching them all myself.

 

[Poultrybreeder]

Those are some nice Cornishes. I am going to order some White Laced Red ones from a hatchery in the Spring to breed with my Barred Plymouth Rocks for meat production. You know it was the White Cornish with the White Plymouth Rock that created the original Cornish X's right? It's just now millions of dollars have been invested into them so that they have more meat than before. I know there is no way I could compare the growth rate and feed intake of home-bred old-fashioned Cornish X to the Modern Day ones, I just want to have a decent amount of meat, and know what the birds have been eating!

 

[Redhead Rae]

Those are some nice Cornishes. I am going to order some White Laced Red ones from a hatchery in the Spring to breed with my Barred Plymouth Rocks for meat production. You know it was the White Cornish with the White Plymouth Rock that created the original Cornish X's right? It's just now millions of dollars have been invested into them so that they have more meat than before. I know there is no way I could compare the growth rate and feed intake of home-bred old-fashioned Cornish X to the Modern Day ones, I just want to have a decent amount of meat, and know what the birds have been eating!

That and knowing what the parent birds have been eating helps a LOT. I got my Delaware chicks from a breeder that is organic certified and my New Hampshire chicks from cackle from their "free range New Hampshires" that are fed organic feed and kept on pasture in tractors. They were the most vigorous chicks I've had (besides my homegrown babies of course).

 

[Poultrybreeder]

I was going to get the Cornish from Strombergs. Probably 7 roosters and 8 hens, so I can widdle down to my favorite breeding pair or trio. The White Laced Red Cornish rooster on their site looked decent, not like a picture of bad hatchery quality stock.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I was considering Stromberg's WLR, but I wanted to see the actual stock I was buying rather than a stock picture. I was at least encouraged that they listed their Cornish as "poor" layers. Other hatcheries have them listed as "good" or "better" layers. If they are good meat birds, they shouldn't be great layers.