{"id":1595,"date":"2011-08-19T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2011-08-19T11:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:34:47","slug":"our-home-bred-cornish-rock-cross-chickens-are-getting-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/08\/19\/our-home-bred-cornish-rock-cross-chickens-are-getting-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Our home-bred Cornish Rock Cross chickens are getting big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Roosters.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1596\" title=\"Roosters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Roosters.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">This year, we crossed some Red Laced Cornish hens with a White Rock rooster and hatched the chicks in our incubator. Some are red-laced but bigger, some are white and big, but have a tight feathering like a Cornish. They are nice chicks, but are not even. That takes several further crosses to get a stable breed of meat birds. But we are happy with the growth and looks of this year&#8217;s birds. We&#8217;ll butcher most of the roosters and give away most of the hens to friends, saving the rest to cross back next spring. We&#8217;ll see how that goes. The bottom line is we have some nice meat birds that know how to dig in the dirt, roost on poles, and all have lived! I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll taste great, too. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, we crossed some Red Laced Cornish hens with a White Rock rooster and hatched the chicks in our incubator. Some are red-laced but bigger, some are white and big, but have a tight feathering like a Cornish. They are nice chicks, but are not even. That takes several further crosses to get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}