wil the chicks that i hatched from the broilers or cornish rock be like the parents?

[jaja]

hi all
i have broilers (cornish rock) from one day age that i bought from hatchery, they are now about 8 months old' from their eggs i hatched 4 chicks, the chicks hatched at 2-6-2012 they are 24 day old.
do you think they will be like the parents or be somthing like the cornish or playmoth rock?
the parents lay 2 eggs/week, how much will lay their offspring?
picture of the chicks ate 16 day old

 

[jaja]

the parents of the chiks

 

[jaja]

the father is in the left of te picture above and he look like this

 

[SteeleFarms]

i am curious about this as well. I was wondering if the cornishrocks breed true or you only get a cronish rock on a 1st gen cross

 

[TexasLady]

I believe I understand what you're asking. You received chicks that had parents that were Cornish and that were Plymouth Rock. They were purchased as "broilers" and were for eating. You kept some of the chicks. Those chicks had babies. If I've said what happened correctly, the babies will be a mixture of Cornish type and Plymouth Rock type and everything in between.

You will get some that are very much like the Plymouth Rock, some that are very much like the Cornish, and some that are like the combination.

Unfortunately, you are getting two eggs a week. This probably indicates that they are not very fertile, but they were not meant to be since they were purchased as broilers. It could also mean that the ones you kept are more like the Cornish (which don't lay a lot of eggs).

It is a fun experiment, but I always try to weigh what I get in return for what I have. If my birds are for complete pleasure, then I don't care. I keep D'Uccles, try to hatch all their eggs, but don't get many (because I just don't do good with hatching). They are simply for pleasure, and I adore them.

I also keep Ameraucana, Orpington and Plymouth Rocks. They are for pleasure, but they are also for eggs. Those birds that are not laying often are not worth as much to me because I keep them for egg production. At the cost of feed, nearly all my birds must give me, at least, what they cost me back because I can't afford to pay for feed for a lot of birds that don't return something. Although the Orpingtons make a decent broiler, I don't think that the Ameraucanas do. When I took my Plymouth Rock roosters that I could not keep to a chicken processing facility, he told me not to waste my time growing these birds because they were scrawny. I was shocked at his comment, but he processes birds for meat, and that was his view.

If you kept the birds to see what you would get, then that will be interesting. You actually might get close to duplicates to each parent i.e. some that are nearly pure Cornish and some that are nearly pure Rock. If you keep the father that is most like a Cornish, and the mother that is most like a Rock, you might get to hatch chicks and then keep the babies for broilers. But then again, I go back to figuring what the cost for me is. And after I pay for broilers, it is cheaper to buy the chicks than to keep parents to try to raise my own at the cost of feed.

It would be interesting to me to see what you got if you kept a rooster most like a Cornish and a hen more like the Rock and bred them. I wonder how close you could get to the parent stock.

 

[jaja]

thank you texas lady and steelefarms

i love playmouth rock. i hope that the chicks will be like the rocks and lay good large eggs to incubate and see what will be in the third generation
that is fun and i love genetics.
i have australorp, blue brahma, light colombian brahama, araucana, chabo and mixed chickens.
in 6 months i will let you know

 

[wolfpak]

Those sure look a whole lot like the Cornish type birds!