Cornish Cross sexual maturity and can they breed?

[Omniskies]

Personal vote: Yes!

If you can verify the eggs are fertile I'd _love_ to buy a week's worth of eggs off of you from the cross

 

[greeneggsandham]

I'm going to give it a try and if I have success I will definately let you all know.

 

[jus1jack]

I know this is an old thread but... I have a cornish X hen "Tessie" and a black sex link roo "Elvis" covering her. She is on & off as far as laying goes at this time. She started out with a good sized doubble yoke egg then three thin shelled eggs, Well yesterday she layed a small good shelled egg, I hops she is on track to start laying now. What do you think I will end up with as offsring from this pair?

 

[nicalandia]

Hey check my future breeders....they are CornishX but the Parent line(Sire line)

here is my boy..











Now Sonya

 

[Chicken7777]

nicalandia how did you get the parent lines I have head that only the large companies owned them and only breed them to sell the cornish cross eggs?

If you have the info to purchase the parent or grandparent lines please let me know as I would be very interested. They really look like white rocks since they do not look that heavy, I guess since they are a white rock cross.

Thank you.

 

[Elite Silkies]

We found a site today that says to use a White Cornish Rooster over a White Rock Hen. That gives you a cornish x cross

 

[nicalandia]

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well my friend I am in nicaragua and stuff like that happens alot....they do NOT intend their breeders to be sold to the public but lots of people smuggle them out and sell them in the local market, do they have an idea of what they are doing?Heck NO...they just want easy money, and afew weeks Days before Christmas eve dinner you will see lots and lots of spent Breeders, in this days you can get your hands on them...

but you can get the parent stock chicks about twice a month on regular months.....they really do fine since most people feed them scrap and they HAVE to find most of their food themself...

mine look like white rocks because I feed restrict them since chicks....


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Yest that was How they were made....about 60 years ago, now they are a breed to themself changing and evolving to the market own requirement

 

[Elite Silkies]

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well my friend I am in nicaragua and stuff like that happens alot....they do NOT intend their breeders to be sold to the public but lots of people smuggle them out and sell them in the local market, do they have an idea of what they are doing?Heck NO...they just want easy money, and afew weeks Days before Christmas eve dinner you will see lots and lots of spent Breeders, in this days you can get your hands on them...

but you can get the parent stock chicks about twice a month on regular months.....they really do fine since most people feed them scrap and they HAVE to find most of their food themself...

mine look like white rocks because I feed restrict them since chicks....


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Yest that was How they were made....about 60 years ago, now they are a breed to themself changing and evolving to the market own requirement

So, if they die before they can breed due to such fast growth, what are they breeding together to maintain the cornish? I thought I had it figured out

 

[nicalandia]

ok ok I will try to explain....ALL conishX grow Fast and will die of overfeeding ALL of them, including the parent and grand parent line...Parent line? well they are what they breed together to give you the end product...BUT they themself are somewhat different to each other WHY? well you see there are the Dame line and the Sire line, the Sire line(the ones that I have) have all of the CornishX factors:Fast Growth, awesome FCR but they have a much larger Frame.........the Dame line of cornish is a CornishX with Fast Growth, AWEsome FCR(feed covertion ratio) but they are dedicated prolific layers.....when they mate a Rooster from a Sire line with a Hen of a Dame line you get the END product(what you all guys get)......

why do they do this?...well to reduce overall production costs....the breeder Hens(Dame line) is a smaller and a much more prolific layer than the Dame hens, they are only use to produce the big frame Males...

 

[sentoku]

Would regulating the food intake help increase the life expectancy of a cornish x?