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    How to breed with the cornish cross.

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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    This is interesting:
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    If you are into making a 4 way cross you might want to keep those blue leggers for your dame line. They are still half CX and might probably lay better than the bigger birds. Being 50% CX they will still probably lend that trait. CX lay pretty good and so do Bresse which makes me think it...
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    It scatters in the F2 generation but by selective breeding you find what you are looking for if possible and keep working birds with traits you are looking for. Each generation will bring you closer to your goal if you select properly.
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    Refrigerator for Fertile Egg Storage

    This is what im thinking about doing. Can i ask which wine chiller you purchased?
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    NHxCX pullet
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    CX hen with CX rooster
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    Ok, what a rodeo this turned out to be. I left my CX rooster in with 4 NH hens and my last CX hen and he mounted CX so many times in a 24 hour time frame that i had to hospitalize her. It took a while for her to heal up. Now i keep a saddle on her and only let him in with her once a week. I...
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    Meaty egg layers for your meat bird project too
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    My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

    Birds are looking awesome bro!
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    Cornish Rock Meat Bird Breeding Project

    Finally seeing my 2 year old CX rooster mounting my 2 year old CX hen! Woohoo! Its finally his turn and he wasted little time. First hen i saw him hit was that CX hen but he hit a couple NHs too. This might work out much better than i was thinking. He lined up pretty good too. Im proud of the...
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    My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

    I just recouped today. Put 4 NH hens and 1 CX hen in with him. About 20 minutes later i watched my 2 year old CX rooster mount my 2 year old CX hen. Im pretty geeked.
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    My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

    The NH's probably will have little problem mounting hens.
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    Storing hatching eggs in wine cooler

    Yeah but you need 5 or 10 broody hens to hatch a decent number of eggs.
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