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So I'm not there yet but I figured I would ask now so I don't forget later. Does it matter which breed is male and which is female? I'm making my own meat birds, after the first cross I want to cross back to cornish cross. Would I be better off keeping males from my first cross to put over cornish cross females or vice versa?
So I'm not there yet but I figured I would ask now so I don't forget later. Does it matter which breed is male and which is female? I'm making my own meat birds, after the first cross I want to cross back to cornish cross. Would I be better off keeping males from my first cross to put over cornish cross females or vice versa?
This is not going to sound very scientific...
You take whatever you can get. I do not think it makes a difference.
When growing out CX's to breeding age take whatever lives. You may not have much choice in the matter.
They are just so hard to keep alive. Remember to nearly starve the little guys and make them walk!
Either sex brings you the genetic material you want...
Now in a perfect world keep the large hens and use the smaller boys on top. The little hens could have trouble when the big guy crawls on top of them to do his thing.
Good luck,
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Another side of the coin though, is that it seems like it's a lot faster to get a male to breeding age than a female to laying age... So, you may have more luck keeping a cock alive long enough to breed him than you would with a flock of hens trying to get them to laying age.
Also, it seems like you get bigger (healthier?) chicks out of bigger eggs, so maybe a good laying breed with a hen that is already making decent sized eggs would be the better mom than a CX pullet who may be producing tiny eggs.