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Since the size and type traits carry heavier from the hens than roosters, to get the meatier cross, I have used the Cornish females. The Buckeyes, being that they have Cornish blood in them, already have (or should have) a good meat quality to them, but the combination has produced larger frame but meatier birds this way. Even the hens were in excess of 8 pounds.
Interesting, I've always have heard it was the other way around and that the reason the male is used in the broilers cornish X is that the male gives the double breast. I recall reading that they can do it the other way around but that the offsprings is not quite as big. I want to say they called them conkling or something along those lines