How do they get meat chicks?

[KellyHM]

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Pretty much that's how they did it. I have some great stats at home that show feed conversion rates from the 70's up to now and the difference is amazing! All from selectively breeding.

 

[Krys109uk]

Indian Game (Cornish) first crosses were some of the earlier traditional meat crosses, sexlinked crosses could be done with Light Sussex, Silver Grey Dorkings etc.

nowadays I think they must be quite way down the road from a first cross. Amongst other things Indian Game/Cornish have pea combs.

Isn't sex linked dwarfism used? I know lots of research was done into this gene at one point. I think the theory was the mothers would be dw/- thus small, consumning less feed, taking less space; the fathers would be Dw+/Dw+ ....thus giving Dw+/- female offspring & Dw+/dw male offspring.

 

[CANDLE98]

Wow I didn't realize that it was really that involved! How crazy! Maybe I will just get a dual purpose bird!