The Cornish Cross chicken is the most commonly raised chicken in the US commercial meat industry and is also popular among homesteaders who want to produce their own chicken meat. It was developed ...

Opinions on the best chickens to raise for meat vary greatly, depending on who you ask. There are two primary options: Cornish cross (aka Cornish Rocks) and heritage breeds. Cornish cross have ...

In April 2008, I shared an order of Cornish cross chicks with my friend Jim. Of my 10 chicks, one died the first day. The other nine spent their first couple of weeks on my porch in a borrowed ...

In response, the obit reported, she came up with the idea of “cross-breeding the Cornish game cocks with various chicken and game birds, including a White Plymouth Rock hen,” to create the ...

And thus, the perfect cross-bred bird, both meaty and petite, was born. Most people don't even notice these little chickens at the grocery store today. Like many vintage trends, the Cornish game ...

After a fire destroyed her farm in 1949, Makowsky began cross-breeding chickens to try to come up with a bird that matures quickly, with a special eye towards the breast meat. What she came up with ...

In their case, that treatment includes allowing their Cornish Cross chickens and Angus cows to roam freely across the farm’s 17 acres of nutrient-rich grass.

Share full article Sasha Prasad-Shreckengast, a manager at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., with her colleague, Jenna Holakovsky, right, worked with Dratch, a Cornish Cross chicken ...

American chicken these days, food lovers like to complain, is barely more flavorful than a block of tofu. The Cornish Rock cross that most of us recognize as a chicken is a model of counter ...