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This is an update of what I have been seeing with my Breese/Cornish x cross. I have been feeding my 12lbs rooster and 2 hens layer pellets, about a 3/4 pint mason jar 2 times a day. They look healthy and did not gain anymore weight. I notice that my rooster started sleeping on the 1.50 foot...

I processed my white standard looking Cornish today with one of his sisters. He weighed only 3.50lbs dressed, and his sister weighed 5.50lbs.

I will also do some experiments with my odd ball standard White Cornish cockerel that was sired by my corny Butter Ball king. He is slim and kind of reminds me of a game cock, I wonder if he will put on some decent weight? He may be the missing vigor link to the fast growing Cornish X hybrid. I...

Basically, all my chickens are related to my Breese/Cornish X cross, except one 3 year old pure Breese hen. However, I am now stream lining my effort to clone my 12lbs rooster with white legs. I kept 2 of his daughters that look like him, and will put them together when they are ready. I have 13...

They making me tired, and they are burning through about 3 gallon of feed a day. I think I am using close to 80lbs a week. I have lot more to process. I want to bring my feed cost down to 40lbs a month, so I will be processing my 2 year old egg layers after I harvest the young 3 month old birds...

My blue legged cockerel sleeps on the ground like his white legged father, while his sisters sleep on a perch. When they can't sleep on a perch at 3 months old, you know you got a fat keeper. I also set a side one hen with yellow legs, I almost had a hernia one night while I was selecting birds...

I started processing my 12lbs-white legged rooster's cockerel chicks at 3 month old. The cockerels average 4 to 5lbs at that age and they were tender when batter fried and roasted. I let their sisters grow for another month to catch up. They averaged 4lbs at 4 months and they were also tender at...

Brother/Sister in breeding reference to set the gene.

Creating new Bloodline or Breed reference....

My first Breese/Cornish X cross (F1), produced bigger birds. My follow up Brother/Sister groups is an attempt to purify two lines. I have 2 roosters from F1 that have different growing characteristics, one of them was 8lbs and the other was 12lbs at 5 months. I want to reproduce or clone these...

I was doing some research on Hybrid vigor and came across Prepotency vs. Hybrid Vigor. This video has set me on a coarse towards purifying a prepotency family through in breeding. Once this line is purified, crossing it creates one time hybrid vigor like Cornish X.

I am happy to report that the unknown hen that was always laying double yolk eggs with the 12lbs rooster has started laying single yolk eggs. What a relief................I guess its part of the maturity process. The only group I haven't put in an incubator is from the 8lbs rooster group. I...

This is the most chicks I have hatched at one time. The bigger chick in the picture is a couple of weeks older. He was living with his 2 older brothers, all three of them came from the 12lbs rooster, but the smaller one hatched a couple of weeks latter. I moved him with the just born chicks to...

I moved these F2 chicks out in a grow pen, I am happy with the 2 pure Breese roosters, but I can see 3 with the Dark Cornish blood. One of them has black and white feathers, one has the Pyle or (brown and white) feathers and the best one has pure white feathers. These 3 are from my Dark...

My Breese/Dark Cornish hens just started laying. This breeding group look like they will produce similar feathered chicks. The rooster and hens have good body confirmation. These hens started laying eggs a month latter than pure Breese chickens. They seem like decent layers and they don't eat as...

The 3 eggs from the 11lbs rooster hatched, but only 1 out 8 of his new eggs were fertile. I think he has a problem catching his hens. His 8 lbs cousin is way more aggressive with the hens than he is. I will wait at least 3 weeks before I start collecting eggs to hatch from the 8lbs rooster...

All 4 eggs did not hatch, they gave up early in the yolk stage. I should have checked them on lock down. I checked them after 8 days and separated the fertile eggs, but did not check them on lock down. Any way I have 3 more eggs from the 11lbs rooster that will go on lock down today. I will...

I see 2 with pea combs, one look all white and the other has a couple of small black feathers. This batch may have been compromised, since I had a standard White Plymouth Rock/Dark Cornish hen cross living in the same pen. I took her out the other day and put her in a processing pen. The 2...

Only 1 of the 7 new eggs were fertile and the 4 eggs that were suppose to hatch yesterday did not hatch yet? I set another 7 eggs, so that 1 fertile egg will be 7 days apart. I hope my eggs hatch today, I saw a video on Youtube, about breeding Cornish X and it pointed out that the eggs hatch...

This is a picture of the Breese father to the Cornish X cross daughters, some of them have black spots and non of their legs turned blue yet. I think they around 3 weeks old. The 2 smaller chicks are pure Breese and they about 1 week old. They managed to fit in with the older chicks. They...