Does any know the parent stock of of Red Broilers?

[mothershedfarms]

I want to produce my own strand of red broilers, but i dont know what to breed to get them, i have searched buy i cannot find any information. I don't want to keep buying them every year, when i have my own chicken farm. I do not like the cornish cross, they are no longer animals, they have produced them to be products, and they are as unnatural as a chicken can get, i hate the way they take a few steps and flop down, and they do not forage, they just eat, eat, and eat the starter feed. I have several chicken tractors that i've built and i plan to raise broilers in. I am also experimenting with delawares and la fleche. I have some videos of my stuff on youtube, but i need an update, search for channel "weldermatt07" on youtube, that is my channel, thanks

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

this won't really answer you question, but if you read this thread from start to finish you will see what a lot of us are doing along the same lines

it really rambles but if you skip pages you skip some really great info and pic from several breeders.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=316007

 

[DenverBird]

Here's the Hubbard breed sheet on the Freedom Rangers. Now you just need to find yourself an I 66 and a JA 57 and you can breed yourself some cute little I 657s!

-DB

 

[Xolisa Miti]

Hello there !!! I am new here. Please help. I am buying an incubator, interested in selling one day old broilers and want to start at a small scale. Which breed can I use as my parent stock?

 

[Hawgfan]

I believe you'll find that the cross is far more complex than just the two parents. That's not to say that you couldn't come up with something comparable over time, but it would take a while. I doubt you'll ever be able to find out exactly what the lineage is. I'd be interested in knowing myself, but that is most likely proprietary information.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It's not just proprietary information, it's flocks that they have managed the genetics on for decades. The first flocks that were developed into the current broilers (often called Cornish Cross, Cornish Rock, or Cornish X) were developed in the mid 1900's. Different chicken meat producers have developed there own strains, but it's taken decades of expert geneticists breeding chickens through selective breeding to come up with the current broilers.

Xolisa, you cannot breed your own and get anything close to the productivity the commercial broilers give you. Some of us breed our own but it's nothing like the commercial broilers.