The Cornish Cross can reach a slaughter weight of 3 pounds in only 6 weeks, 4 pounds in 8 weeks, 5 pounds in 10 weeks, and 6 pounds by 12 weeks.

Cornish cross and heritage chickens are two types of chickens often used for meat. There’s considerable debate about which tastes better, which is easier to raise and which is more “ethical.” ...

Cornish Cross is the U.S. poultry industry's standard meat chicken, according to poultry breeder Will Morrow, owner of Whitmore Farm in Frederick.

CORNISH: These days what Cross says he sees most of all is that a good number of restaurant owners can't make the math work even with the loans the government gave out earlier in the pandemic.

CORNISH: Cross says resistance to that plan fired up in March of last year. CROSS: You had probably 150 charter school kids show up at the city council meeting, ...

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, in a learning study.

I was wrong about Freedom Rangers. Freedom Rangers are pretty close to Cornish Cross chickens. The Freedom Rangers did well on pasture, and we had a pretty broad range of sizes in the flock. I’m ...

Very odd article that proves someone that did all their research in a chair. I raise Cornish cross chickens, just processed a bunch at 12 weeks, they weighed from 8.8 lbs to 16.8 lbs. at 2-4 weeks ...

Shaun Terry and his wife Sabrina are the owners of Grateful Pastures, where they raise pastured poultry in Mansfield, south of I-20 in Newton County.

The Cornish cross is a hybrid of a commercial Cornish chicken and White Plymouth Rock chicken, which has been genetically selected for rapid growth and feed efficiency over the years.

The Makowskys began cross-breeding the Cornish game cocks with various chickens and game birds, including a White Plymouth Rock hen and a Malayn fighting cock, to develop the Rock Cornish game hen ...