Cornish Rock cross/Black Australorp crosses

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mom of silkies said:
Yeah, I'm trying to create a more sustainable cross, because lets face it CX's aren't sustainable.
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Sounds awesome! I agree, CXs aren't. You could create the new favorite cross.
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so are you saying you got pullet Cornish crosses, raised them till they where laying and then bred them to black Australoid?
and wouldn't it be better to breed the Cornish hens with a bigger breed then an Australoid?
would it work if i got hens and bred it to a Cornish cross rooster? if not Why?
 
phoenix-silkie said:
so are you saying you got pullet Cornish crosses, raised them till they where laying and then bred them to black Australoid?
and wouldn't it be better to breed the Cornish hens with a bigger breed then an Australoid?
would it work if i got hens and bred it to a Cornish cross rooster? if not Why?
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I don't know if Cornish Cross roosters can breed that well, because they are so heavy.
 
GitaBooks said:
I don't know if Cornish Cross roosters can breed that well, because they are so heavy.
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I have never tried breeding with a CX roo, because I have heard because they're so huge they can't breed. I don't know if i did the same thing with the CX roos, that I did with my hens if they could breed, but I don't know if it would even be worth it, because they are hybrids, so who knows what they would produce. Also, I want to create a healthier and hardier breed.
 
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mom of silkies said:
I have never tried breeding with a CX roo, because I have heard because they're so huge they can't breed. I don't know if i did the same thing with the CX roos, that I did with my hens if they could breed, but I don't know if it would even be worth it, because they are hybrids, so who knows what they would produce. Also, I want to create a healthier and hardier breed.
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when I was a kid we had some Cornish rock chicks we had bought 22 they kept killed off cause they were so slow and easy for predators to catch we had one that my dad has sold to a friend of his then bought back when it was a year old it was humongeous weighed 20lbs crowed like a dinosaur lol but he did throw some game hens with cause game hens are great setters a couple Rhode island And black giant hens with him got some off spring off him he was chased off when his sons that were game cross hit maturity stage he lost a lot of weight when he was no longer king of the rooster and wasn't as mean I eventually put just put him in the chicken by himself and 2 black giant hens which were real good crosses he ended up getting killed by a neighbor dog we ended up getting rid of the game crosses off him and kept a black and white speckled rooster off him it could actually fly unlike him yeah that's probably why Cornish rocks don't live to long they can't fly real fat and easy targets for predators but they can mate I've seen it happen
 
om of roo said:
I have never tried breeding with a CX roo, because I have heard because they're so huge they can't breed. I don't know if i did the same thing with the CX roos, that I did with my hens if they could breed, but I don't know if it would even be worth it, because they are hybrids, so who knows what they would produce. Also, I want to create a healthier and hardier breed.
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it's possible when I was a kid me and my dad got 22 of those Cornish rock roosters 1 survived adulthood rest were killed off by dogs and other predators the one that did survive my dad sold and bought back and crossed over some game hens and black giant and Rhode island hens he produced a bunch of offspring but he ended up getting killed by predators himself cause he couldn't fly But my dad kept a black giant cross rooster off him that was not as big as big him but still about a 12lbs rooster when the dad the Cornish rock I guarantee weighed 20lbs before he got killed off
 
Johnboy 89 said:
when I was a kid we had some Cornish rock chicks we had bought 22 they kept killed off cause they were so slow and easy for predators to catch we had one that my dad has sold to a friend of his then bought back when it was a year old it was humongeous weighed 20lbs crowed like a dinosaur lol but he did throw some game hens with cause game hens are great setters a couple Rhode island And black giant hens with him got some off spring off him he was chased off when his sons that were game cross hit maturity stage he lost a lot of weight when he was no longer king of the rooster and wasn't as mean I eventually put just put him in the chicken by himself and 2 black giant hens which were real good crosses he ended up getting killed by a neighbor dog we ended up getting rid of the game crosses off him and kept a black and white speckled rooster off him it could actually fly unlike him yeah that's probably why Cornish rocks don't live to long they can't fly real fat and easy targets for predators but they can mate I've seen it happen
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My Cornish rock cross/australorp crosses are very good layers, large, and the roo I have is not agressive. I'm going to breed my crosses together to see what they produce, i'm also going to breed pure cornish rocks to my cross to get a 3/4 cornish rock. I don't have any problems with predators killing mine, because I have livestock guardian dogs called Anatolian Shepherds that are a Turkish breed. They protect all of my livestock. My main problem is they get so big they get leg problems and have heart attacks. but my crosses like yours can fly and run around like normal chickens, they get much larger than the normal chickens.
 
mom of silkies said:
Right now the offspring weigh around 8-10 pounds at about 3 months old, and they are still growing. My CX hens are around 15-20 pounds at a year old.

That's a beautiful chicken! What type of bantam is that? And I limited my CX hens food, and keep them in a chicken tractor. I'm going to take my crosses and breed them back to CX's so I will hopefully, if all goes well, have a chicken that's 3/4 CX. I'm also going to breed my crosses to my crosses.
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Hello mom of silkies,
Just wondering how the chickens turned out when you breed them back to cx
 

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