Turkey Ridge Ests Waterloo, IL
Cornish Cross
- Purpose
- meat
- Egg color
- brown
- Hen weight
- ~8 lbs
- Cold hardy
- No
- Heat tolerant
- No
- Temperament
- placid, food-focused, sedentary
- Forages
- poor
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R280
- Origin
- United States
Breed guide
Cornish Cross
Also known as: Cornish X, Cornish Rock, Jumbo Broiler, White Broiler
Hybrid
A production cross with no breed standard. Chicks hatched from these birds will vary from their parents.
The modern commercial broiler hybrid, a Cornish x White Rock derived cross that reaches 5-6 lb live weight in 6-8 weeks. Breeders selected it for feed conversion and breast yield. Keep one past butcher age and it develops leg and heart problems.
Keeper's notes
Process on schedule at 6-9 weeks. After week two, restrict feed, 12 hours on and 12 off. Keep them cool. In a wet spring, raise them on dry litter or move the tractor every day, because they will sit right down in the mud.
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Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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