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It took a railcar full of money, a bus load of geneticists and, just recent years, and a semifull of computers to get today's meat chicken. Oh yeah- and about 75 years.
To be sucessful I would suggest you start out with the White Rocks that they had 75 years ago and the Cornish that...
Thanks for the info guys! I've never really be able to find a whole lot of info on them before, I thought they were all still crossed between a cornish rooster and white rock hen.
Any idea on how to produce your own parent line? Just take a a plump rooster and hen and start breeding? Are there...
From my under standing of them, the "x" stands for cross (cornish cross), because they are a cross between a cornish rooster and a white rock hen. So that's why some refer to them as cornish rocks. So cornish x/cornish cross/cornish rock are all the same.