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Well, except CX outstrip that if allowed to get full grown. :P But I agree proportions also play a role.

Agreed, they have problems. The key here, of course, is that cornish crosses are literally - by design - being bred to death in no small part because that's the end goal. Death. You don't get chicken meat without killing the chicken. So I mind a lot less when chickens are bred to unhealthy...

There's a huge amount of genetic stock with CX including several unique proprietary lines and there's lots of linebreeding/inbreeding in non CX chickens. I can't see a correlation between line breeding and the problems CX have. I believe it's exclusively a size problem. One that we regularly...

Again, that's NOT how they're bred in most places. That... Wait. no that's not how it's usually done at all. Not in the US at least. That appears to be India even. What.

For more than beef, it depends on the cut but yes that's very feasible for chicken to reach that price. (Citations! https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/fnc12-866/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broiler...

:T I've actually found that, when raised with care, they have extraordinary personalities and are very active. I've had them live long enough to lay eggs and reproduce and they've been my favorite flock members. I've never found them to be sluggish, they are always at my feet begging for food or...

That's fascinating that they use recessive dwarfism to manage the size issues in their flock.

Most of it is not done using AI. In fact it's much more common for cows on small family farms to have AI than chickens because keeping a bull is harder than it is for the big companies to keep around a bundle of roosters and let them just do their job. Also AI is expensive and given how often...

Commercial cornish crosses/broilers, as stated above, are a 4-way hybrid. A long long time ago they were made by crossing a Cornish chicken to a plymouth rock but these days they're actually a proprietary set of varieties carefully selected for food production. To be honest you'd be hard pressed...