First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[bubra007]

You do have to let them relax, unless you freeze them, the freezing and thawing will cause them to relax too...

Unless the rooster is a year or more old, I see no reason to brine.  If they are really that tough pressure cook them. that softens anything.    We eat our layer flock roosters at around 20-26 weeks and they are not tough.

Good to know! I'll see if I can tell any difference the next time I have to kick some roos off the island. I swear, we have the worse luck with roos.

On a happier note, I hear my silkie cross chicks from their eggs about to hatch. Of the 8 I put in the incubator, 5 seem to have been fertilized and developing right!

 

[bluto in mo]

Sweet

 

[Dave C]

I can't stand the incubator being empty...so..since it appears the Saipan cockrels have figured out which end is which on the hens I'm saving eggs to try.

the Saipan are massive birds I can't wait to see how they cross with the slow broilers

Now that's a strong frame

What are they like as a pure breed, similar to DC ?

 

[Dave C]

Similar birds have been used in the UK mainly Shamo & Asil, for improving DC leg length.

 

[JRNash]

Now that's a strong frame

What are they like as a pure breed, similar to DC ?

Way bigger and taller than the DC

 

[JRNash]

The stock these came out of were 28" tall and over 10#

 

[bluto in mo]

That's a turkey lol

 

[JRNash]

I'm fairly sure this is a dark cornish x jersey giant

 

[JRNash]

this is a jersey x barred rock

 

[JRNash]

I just placed one of my darck cornish hens in with my asil. See what happens.it's his first gal pal