Well folks .... I have done all sorts of crosses as meat birds and never had anything like this happen before. Rather than a Cornish x Dorking I decided to try a Cornish x Rock and then take the progeny from that and cross back to the Dorking. Sounds workable right?
Well after processing and cooking this cross I can honestly say it fleshes out well enough, but has produced the toughest meat bird I have ever had the displeasure of trying to eat. These where not old birds. They where raised on grower like all our other meat prospects and yet I think we discovered a new way to convince predators to stay away from ones flock. After trying to eat one of these they would have broken teeth and never return.
Well after processing and cooking this cross I can honestly say it fleshes out well enough, but has produced the toughest meat bird I have ever had the displeasure of trying to eat. These where not old birds. They where raised on grower like all our other meat prospects and yet I think we discovered a new way to convince predators to stay away from ones flock. After trying to eat one of these they would have broken teeth and never return.
