Obtaining breeder stock for Cornish Crosses

[3KillerBs]

They did the work of selecting their stock for generations to get the result they wanted, why shouldn't they deserve the return on their investment?

Anyone who wants to take Cornish and Rock chickens to interbreed for decades as they strenuously select for those factors probably could replicate the modern Cornish X meat bird.

Its no different than a show breeder charging a premium price for top quality birds in rare and desirable colors.

"Big Business" isn't composed of a bunch of evil aliens. The people who own big businesses were once owners of small businesses -- until they had a better idea and worked long and hard to turn that idea into success.

We own a small business and if we ever have an industry-changing innovation we aren't going to grow horns, fangs, and forked tail. We'll grow our company on merit and hard work -- just like the owners of currently large companies did.

 

[nicalandia]

I have access to the parent broiler chicks....both lines, but I don´t want to produce white Broilers, but colored ones....

 

[ademeb]

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To some extent, I agree with you, but only in regard to plant patents, because the pollen can (and has) escaped to contaminate other people's crops.

With regard to the chickens, (and it pains me to say this, because I'm not a big fan of CAFO's, but they do have their place, as long as we have so darn many people on the planet) you aren't handcuffed to the corporations by anyone but yourself. Nobody forces you to buy from them.

You can stop eating commercially raised chickens. You can buy from local farmers. You can raise whatever breed you can find.

You have the option to raise any other breed you want, the intensely bred broiler chicks are not the only edible chickens. You're free to breed your own broilers from scratch. It can be expensive, and definitely time consuming, to track down and acquire good breeding stock to start with.

You just can't have the genes of the ones that other people did all the work to develop, (and spent tons of money to develop) unless you buy a huge number and agree to contract terms. You might do the same, if you'd devoted the better part of your life, and your resources, into a project. Once it began to pay off, you might not want to give it away to all comers.

That's what many of us are in the process of doing, breeding our own. I'm doing that myself. Meanwhile, I'm eating some of my mixed breed birds, and still buying some (not as many as before) at the grocery, when I want fryers. I could skip the fryers, but my DH would be sad. I hope that by this time next year, I'll be hatching and raising my own fryers.

There are farmer's markets, and other local food sources, if you want to buy from them instead of the supermarket. It takes some homework, but it's worth it. Check out Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle if you haven't already read it. There's helpful info in that book to help, if you want to separate yourself from the mainstream commercial food sources.

We've really set ourselves up for low-quality cheap food in this country, because we've demanded the cheapest food possible, instead of the healthiest food possible. As more people become aware of the huge cost in poor health and environmental damage this has created, this is starting to change. It's up to us as individuals, to do what we can, if we want something different. Buy what you approve of. Vote with your wallet.

Good luck, and I hope you are able to find/develop more acceptable sources of meat birds for yourself.

Hello,Can you give me the contact of the place in Arkansas. I want to breed Cornish so I might be willing to buy.

 

[ademeb]

I have access to the parent broiler chicks....both lines, but I don´t want to produce white Broilers, but colored ones....

How can I get access to these PS . I was to produce white chicks