Cornish Cross are a regular breed by now, don't let the chicken industry or anyone who is misinformed deceive you. If you want a Cornish Cross chicken, you simply take a hen and a rooster of the Cornish Cross variety, and the chicks will come out looking just like mom and dad. But the chicken...
Cornish Cross chickens are a breed on their own, the myth (lies) of it being a hybrid was spread and continues to be pushed by large chicken farms to avoid competition and prevent a large section of individual chicken breeders from raising and hatching their own meat birds (Cornish Cross).
You are basically correct is most of it except in:
The meat birds can live long healthy lives, if the person who feeds it does it in a controlled fashion. These meat birds have no self control, and will eat until they are ready to burst, that is why there is the misconception that they only...