Cornish Game vs cross

[Lurch1]

What do they cross the cornish chicken with in a cornish cross? How long do Cornish game take to get to market weight? Have you ever tried a RIR/ cornish cross?

 

[silkydragon]

cornish x rock im thinking of getting some cornish hens to breed with my barred rock for my own strand of broilers but i bet theres more to broilers then just 1 generation

 

[silkiechicken]

Yeah, commercial broilers are a line of white rocks crossed with a line of white cornish, that has now been in development for over 60 years on both ends, and the parent strains are owned by big companies.

 

[Lurch1]

I have JGs. I wonder what the product would be if I crossed the hens with a cornish game roo

 

[SteveH]

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Words like Cornish X , Cornish Rock , Jumbo Cornish , etc. does not really fit the meaties they are used to describe . Its been many years since pure strains of these have been used to produce the chicks we buy . I read on another thread that the OP took [ if memory serves ] something like 24 weeks to get a pure Cornish to finish weight .
The first great commercial cross was Cornish X New Hampshire Red , taking advantage of the NHR's early maturity and disease resistance . Plymouth White Rocks soon replaced the NHRs as the preferred cross , then hybrid strains were developed ending the use of pure strains of Cornish on pure strains of White Rock . Its possible some of the old pure strains used to develope the current parent lines still exist and are used to try to develope new parent lines , but I'm not aware of any .