Friday, January 24, 2014

Raising Meat Chickens [VIDEO]

Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Pinterest • LinkedIn • Add to favorites • Google • Google Plus • Delicious Share on Facebook Cornish Cross versus Heritage Chickens There are a lot of misconceptions about Cornish Cross (or Cornish X) chickens. I’ve heard them called Frankenbirds and GMO chickens…they are neither. I guess a Frankenbird would be a chicken that has been sewn together from parts of different chickens…not a viable way to produce a chicken, quite ‘frankly.’ Genetically modified chickens would be chickens that have had their genetic material altered by adding genetic material from other organisms in a laboratory setting. Cornish X are actually produced by hybridizing chickens, resulting in a bird that is the genetic offspring of several distinct breeds.



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