cornish

[twhbea]

I have been reading about cornish and had a question. What is the difference between a cornich rock and a standard cornish? Ive never had meat birds but I want to try and raise my own. I have Cornish Rocks. Are they the same as standard? Just different name? And then I have heard cornish game hen what is that? What seems to be better meat cornish or cornish cross?

 

[TwoCrows]

I don't know the answer to this question as I have never raise meat birds before. Here is a thread on the Cornish vs. the Crossed that might help answer this question! ......

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/299177/standard-cornish-vs-cornish-x

Good luck with your meat birds and enjoy BYC!

 

[Tuhmu]

and good luck with all your poultry adventures!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! If I have it straight, the regular Cornish or Indian Game, is a breed developed in England from various game birds. Cornish Rocks originally were the crosses of specific strains of (usually White) Cornish and White Plymouth Rocks. What today is called Cornish X are birds produced from 2-4 or more parent strains that are selected to produce the short lived but fast growing hybrid X, the parent lines/ genetics of the commercial Cornish X are owned by huge corporations. A Cornish Game Hen is usually a female CornishX or CRock that was butchered at a young age/ size.
Feathersite link to Cornish & Cornish X if you want to see pictures http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Cornish/BRKCornish.html
http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Broil/BRKMeat.html

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[twhbea]

Thank you for the welcome. I haven seen BYC for a while. Good read but never joined. I have had Rhode Island, Yellow Buff, Americanas, Welsumers, And mallard ducks. Never have had the meat but I want to start living off the farm thanks for all the help and future too. I am glad to be here

 

[twhbea]

Ohh one more thing where can I buy standard corhish that I can breed?

 

[TwoCrows]

Ohh one more thing where can I buy standard corhish that I can breed?

Murray McMurray Hatchery sells Cornish Hens and I believe they even do the Cornish Cross. You will have to dig around in their web site, but here is the link to the standard cornish...

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/cornish_game_hens.html

 

[Kelsie2290]

If you want to breed the birds you want to look into regular Cornish, McMurray and most hatcheries sell Dark Cornish and White Laced Red Cornish in Standard, Ideal also sells Buffs, I can't think of any commercial one who sells regular Whites, there are private breeders on BYC who have Whites. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/688233/white-cornish-standards there are a number of threads on them if you want to do a search https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/398955/cornish-thread/1370