I understand the business analysis, but man cornish x feel wrong!

[whitehousechix]

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My great Grandmas house was bought from Sears and Roebuck. heheh

 

[MetalSmitten]

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[eggbuster]

I like Cx.

I also free range them with a DP flock and they are pretty much the same for care and behaviour. I feed home mixed feed (no soy or corn), not commercial, and they do not stink. They DO breed. You just won't get a consistent bird from hybrid stock, although with some time you could narrow it down to something.

I have 4 Cx hens that lay daily and are very popular with the roosters, probably because they are easy to catch as opposed to a DP hen. As a result, I have Cx/chantecler x's (very nice) The big draw back is that the chicks have a tough time hatching because they are too crowded in the shells to zip and fill up the air cells. I will get more Cx this fall to continue breeding to my chanteclers and also to a Partridge rock rooster next spring. I ended up with a partridge rock/buckeye chick which is pretty impressive for a DP so I want to try the partridge rock rooster with Cx next year. I had a Cx rooster but he kept trying to kill my other roosters and ended up going to freezer camp after all.

My neighbour hates Cx and is paying me to raise them for her this year. Another reason I like them; no one else does.

 

[Bossroo]

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And... here is the birth of a new moneymaking business venture... raise the Cornish X for those that hate them for whatever reason but love to eat them.

 

[PotterWatch]

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I have at least a couple customers like that. People who have raised them but found they didn't have the appropriate space to keep them in a way that made them tolerable to raise.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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These parent lines are available world wide... it would have to be the end of the world for the CX to completely "disappear". Poultry diseases aren't specific and wouldn't wipe out just one breed... that's like saying all white people could die all at once because of skin cancer from the sun.... and it doesn't touch any other race. It just doesn't work like that... fun to think about but reality is a little different than the movies.

The other what ifs are ridiculous and I sense a bit of sarcasm

Any how, with all this said... we don't live in the 1800's anymore. Keeping a sustainable chicken is kind of like keeping a horse and buggy. It's like banning vehicles because they aren't sustainable. Which in all honesty cars are not sustainable in the long run... they run off of oil just like so many things in the world. So it's kind of hypocritical to say I'm not going to raise a chicken because it's not sustainable but I'm going to drive a car.

I mean if you want to get yourself a horse and buggy and raise solely DP birds then I would understand. 70 years from now things will change just like they did 70 years ago, the point is you go with evolution and adapt. If the CX no longer becomes the viable option or for if some reason they are $10.00 per chick things will change and our way of life will change with it.

BUT... in the meantime... I'm going to enjoy my life and not worry about little things that I really can't control. Frankly I don't even want to try, if I have to at some point I know that I can. I have DP breeds too... so I can put the eggs in the incubator and would fare just well with the end of the CX world. But currently the CX fit the bill, wether you raise them or not you probably support them. Any chicken product outside your home is CX. Either at the grocery, if you eat out, or the local butcher shop. I find it hard to believe that all you eat is DP birds 100%.

To each their own but I think people are just stubborn.... Not so much you but people in general.

 

[MetalSmitten]

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These parent lines are available world wide... it would have to be the end of the world for the CX to completely "disappear". Poultry diseases aren't specific and wouldn't wipe out just one breed... that's like saying all white people could die all at once because of skin cancer from the sun.... and it doesn't touch any other race. It just doesn't work like that... fun to think about but reality is a little different than the movies.

The other what ifs are ridiculous and I sense a bit of sarcasm

Any how, with all this said... we don't live in the 1800's anymore. Keeping a sustainable chicken is kind of like keeping a horse and buggy. It's like banning vehicles because they aren't sustainable. Which in all honesty cars are not sustainable in the long run... they run off of oil just like so many things in the world. So it's kind of hypocritical to say I'm not going to raise a chicken because it's not sustainable but I'm going to drive a car.

I mean if you want to get yourself a horse and buggy and raise solely DP birds then I would understand. 70 years from now things will change just like they did 70 years ago, the point is you go with evolution and adapt. If the CX no longer becomes the viable option or for if some reason they are $10.00 per chick things will change and our way of life will change with it.

BUT... in the meantime... I'm going to enjoy my life and not worry about little things that I really can't control. Frankly I don't even want to try, if I have to at some point I know that I can. I have DP breeds too... so I can put the eggs in the incubator and would fare just well with the end of the CX world. But currently the CX fit the bill, wether you raise them or not you probably support them. Any chicken product outside your home is CX. Either at the grocery, if you eat out, or the local butcher shop. I find it hard to believe that all you eat is DP birds 100%.

To each their own but I think people are just stubborn.... Not so much you but people in general.

okay, seriously though, i don't understand why everyone is trying to convince me that what i want is stupid. you may not have said the actual word "stupid" but that's what's implied. i've already said: i LIKE chickens, i like having them around, i use them for more than just meat, i'm not a commercial grower, so i want a breeding flock, and i'm not dissing CXs. why do i need to be told over and over that this is dumb?

i know poultry diseases aren't breed specific. i'm not dumb. i don't need an analogy about how skin cancer doesn't just kill white people. however, diseases spread much more rapidly in giant overcrowded population centers, such as CX growing facilities. show me a giant facility filled with non-CX meat birds, and i'll be concerned about them too, but they don't exist. i'm not as concerned about the laying facilities because any bird can lay an egg, but no birds other than CXs make the kind of meat we're all used to having in great supply now. if one hatchery gets a virus or whatever, i know that wouldn't wipe out the entire population worldwide, but it WOULD cause a scare and make the price of the decreased supply jump. and i just like having a backup, because, hey, why not be prepared, even if the emergency may never happen.

if you don't want to worry about things you can't control, that's fine, but please let me raise my personal flock without judgement. what works for you isn't my ideal, and vice versa, and that's fine. i'm not some survivalist nut, i don't believe the world is ending quite yet and i'm not trying to convince you to give up your CX. but, for example, when florida experiences bad weather, the price of tomatoes jumps even though they're grown all around the world. if i'm already keeping chickens, then it just makes sense to me to have them as a backup meat source in case chickens are the new tomatoes. with the huge commercial farms, you never know what might happen. i also have a garden (which people have been doing since way before the 1800s!) because i like it, and it's nice to have a backup. should i get rid of my garden because it's antiquated, and there's a nice modern grocery store in town?

and actually, i don't drive a car. i work from home. mainly because i'm young and college educated, which translates to no job opportunities, and after a decade of retail jobs, i couldn't find any work at all after the last time i moved. but that's another ramble for another day

but the point is, now, i made my own job, but it doesn't pay very well. so i try my very very hardest to reduce my need for money, because i simply don't have much of it. i live extremely frugally, and i'm NOT complaining about that fact, but it isn't entirely by choice. so yes, i'm concerned about the price of food. i'm not against evolution and modern science. i just want a flock that breeds. that's all. jeez.

i'm gonna politely step aside now on this subject, i've said my bit and it's not my desire to offend or be offended.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Please take no offense to this......but you are college educated, living frugal out of the NEED to and you want a meat chicken that takes longer to give you benefit for the time and money you invest in it? Im geussing economics wasnt your major haha!

Im all for you doing what ever makes you happy....but step back and take a look at what you posted LOL!

 

[Buster52]

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A small quibble, here...

Genetic diversity is what allows a species to survive, even if the majority of it is wiped out. The wider the gene pool, the more likely it is for a gene resistant to a particular disease to exist. The narrower the gene pool, the less likely.

And these lines are very very very VERY narrow, genetically speaking. That is why the industry can boast such consistent results. Couple that with the unsafe practices of factory farming (routine prophylactic medication that will eventually lead to stronger and stronger bugs, overcrowding, etc.), this critter being the animal of choice for the world meat bird will, inevitably, lead to its eventual demise.

Having a wide, genetically diverse gene pool outside that system is the only sustainable option.

I have made my peace with having to raise these things, out of necessity, as they do have their strengths, but that hasn't blinded me to their very real weaknesses.

 

[Buster52]

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For some, there are more important things than money.