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Switching out Breeding roosters, from an American Bresse to a Cornish Cross
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2021
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I am trying to develop my own breed of chicken by crossing the American Bresse ( the best tasting chicken in the world that also lays 250 eggs per year) with the Cornish Cross (the fastest growing chicken with the best feed conversion) to do this I slowed the growth of 3 Cornish Roaster roosters so they would be at a healthier weight for breeding and then put them in with my American Bresse hens. Keep in mine when switching out roosters how long it take for the old rooster to stop fertilizing eggs and how long it take for the new rooster to start fertilizing eggs
I have a year old Cornish cross rooster…he’s 27lbs…..incapable of mating and can’t run 😂. We call him hulk chicken because he’s a freak of nature
That would be a world record for chicken size
@@rhett3555 probably would if been. He died recently from what I believe was heart failure because he gurgled alot the last month or so when he would breathe. I raise them as a hobby in a town with a population less than 120 people so nothing gets attention out here lol
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lol lol, he is so cute. just learning about the American Bresse chicken breed. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching, let me know if there are any subjects you would like to see covered.
I used a Breese rooster and cornish X hen, the offspring grew bigger than their parents. The chicks had different color feet, some were white, green, blue and yellow.
Interesting! How did you keep the hens from getting too fat?
@@The.Recreational.Homestead I started collecting the eggs from two fat Cornish hens as soon as I could, so the eggs were on the small side, but all the chicks turn out to be big birds with out obesity problems and can live normal lives. One of the Cornish X hen that I used for breeding blew her guts out and the other died a week later. They lived for about two months after they started laying eggs. I am currently using the chicks as parent stock. I have 4 hens with their Breese father and 4 hens with their brother in a separate breeding pen. I just put eggs from both groups in two separate incubators. I think the Breese father group will produce better egg layers and the Brother sister group will produce better meat birds. The rooster from the brother sister group is about 10 lbs. and he is 5 months old.
What was the meat like?
@@amandagrifka6739 I just hatch 3 males with white legs, 1 hen with blue leg and 1 hen with yellow leg from a Blue leged rooster.
I processed the males at 3 month old they average 5 to 6lbs dressed, at that age the meat is still tender and can be fried or roasted.
At first I was breeding for white legs, but the yellow leg hen that I just hatched pulled more on the cornish x side and is the heaviest of the bunch. I will use this hen to continue my meat line. The blue legged hens will probably be better egg layers, so I'll keep them around for eggs.
Good news is I have found with this cross the roos have yellow legs and the hens will keep the blue legs, so you can sex them by about 2-3 weeks.
Do you have some of these right now?
@@The.Recreational.Homestead yes just ten hens and 2 roos
am going try to cross breed boilers.. keep up the good good
It will be interesting to see how that goes. It is so expensive to buy Cornish chicks here to raise for the freezer.
Take care,
Annette 🌺
The cost and the fact that I have to count on a hatchery and the post office to get my meat birds is why I want my own breed. There are alternative breeds out there but they are still high bred so you don’t get the same chicken when you hatch your own eggs and the hen are made to grow as big and as fast as the roosters so they are not good egg layers. In the wild males look like males and females look like females but through years of breeding we have got them to look almost the same.
I'm cross breeding White Plymouth Rocks to Dark Cornish Roosters. No Eggs yet. 19 weeks old. I do have one white Plymouth rooster that was my bonus Chick. Hopefully keep a couple of hens for purebred Plymouth Rocks.
1:26 hhhholllddddd upp did you edit that last part 😂😂😂
So it’s been a year since this video… how did it go?
I've been breeding my American Breese rooster to different breed hens. I've wondered how a cornish x would work. I'll be watching!
What breeds have you done and what’s your favorite?
@@The.Recreational.Homestead I have Speckled Sussex, Barred Rocks, and Leghorn egg laying hens. All of which are slow growing. I've harvested young roosters but would like a faster growing bird with the added flavor of Breese. I was always told "u can't breed the cornish crosses so I'm glad to hear what your doing. Good luck moving foward.
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About how much feed to you give your hens as a daily ration to keep them fertile?
Just found your channel
Welcome to the channel and thanks for watching.
Is this still a project you are working on?
I am curious why you didn't use Bresse females so you wou get more eggs per season?
I tried that first but the Cornish Cross roosters didn’t want to mate
What the Cornish will do is add a higher incidence of breast meat, for starters. I have a "surprise box" pair of heritage Cornish (Indian Game) and really like them. I also have two blue Bresse, but as they're not representing the highest breed quality, I think I'll try the cross for my own use. The Heritage Cornish doesn't grow as fast as the comm. "Rock Cornish" you buy frozen in the store, but I'm not going to be making money on this move. All my others chickens are Leghorn based egg layers, not meat birds. So here we go!!
Thanks for the info, quality Bresses are hard to come by there’s a lot of people selling low quality Bresse chicks. I think it’s great that you are going to play with cross breeding them, please let me know how it goes. It’s shouldn’t always be about making money that why I named this Chanel the RECREATIONAL homestead, because we are homesteading for the fun of it not because we NEED to. Thanks for watching!
Great video. Check out Black's Tropical Homesteads Live on Friday's. I'll drop the link to your channel.
Thanks and I will!
Try the cross with freedom rangers broilers,it would work.Right know i haching fredom rangers chicks ,from ranger hens.my hens are 10 months know and doing great.I do keep them on low fat diet,as the amount of eggs per week on each Freedom ranger hen,i get like 5 eggs per hen per week.One drawback is that you get like 15 percent double yokers,but very good to eat.
@@The.Recreational.Homestead What is your opinion on cros6s between the American Bresse and the White Dorking, and then back to the American Bresse?
Id like to buy some hatching eggs or chicks from you bresse or your new breed. Lets chat!
I’d love to chat! We currently have a waitlist going. You can send us your email address to get on the waitlist at RH.Hatchery@gmail.com.
What's the status on the super chickens
Setting eggs this Sunday to find out if they are fertile, thanks for asking
@@The.Recreational.Homestead any updates?
How did it work out?
The Cornish X roosters never did breed. I ended up breeding an American Bresse rooster to some Cornish X hens and I now have one rooster and one hen from that.
@@The.Recreational.Homestead How much did the offspring weigh?
Why not cross a breese roo to a Cornish hen?
Great question, my idea was that the Bresse hens are good layers so if I could just get one roosters to breed all 10 hens ones and they laid fertilized eggs for just one week after that I would get 50 eggs to incubate instead of 3 Cornish hens laying maybe 8 eggs in one week.
where I come from
,it's cornbread and chicken
It is a challenge to get the rooster to make and you have to artificial Insemination.