Talk:Cornish game hen

Expert needed

Someone please find an expert on game hens. I highly suspect the city of Rock, Cornwall is responsible for both the Rock and Cornish breeds, as well as their crossing. Preferably, ask them to write articles for both :) Scott Ritchie 02:47, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Other knowlegable sites suggest (actually they say it right out) that Tyson was the originator of the cross between the Rock and the Cornish chicken. I wonder which is true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.254.96 (talk) 20:28, 7 October 2006‎ (UTC) (I guess I need to create an account, huh. I am Dr. Jack in Phoenix 7 Oct 2006, 13:29 local — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.254.96 (talk) 20:30, 7 October 2006‎ (UTC)

Regarding the question of who bred the birds, the San Francisco Chronicle article given in the 'Eternal Links' section of the article mentions an article from the July 1955 Saturday Evening Post which credits the Makowsky's with the 'invetion' of the bird (or at least, the idea to breed it). If someone could view a copy of this article, we might be able to clear up the question of the origin. Interestingly, the Tyson Foods Inc. website doesn't mention anything about John Tyson breeding the original game hens. --LadyIslay (talk) 18:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Size

The first paragraph states that they are immature, but the second says "the result was a small bird...enough for a single serving", which implies that they don't get any bigger. My understanding is that it's the latter, but does anyone actually know? KarlM 00:28, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

All white meat

...the result was a small bird with all white meat... Huh? I am a fan of cornish game hen, primarily because it has nice dark meat (along with nasty white meat) on it and tastes a bit like turkey. Where the originals all white meat, because the ones now certainly aren't. - MSTCrow 22:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

One-legged Cornish Hens

When we lived in Portland, OR in the eighties, we would frequently encounter one-legged Cornish Hens for sale at various different groceries but no one knew why. On the main page it is mentioned that the US requires these hens to be 2 pounds or less in weight... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgkrebbs (talk • contribs) 15:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Contradiction

Either it's a typical chicken slaughtered young or it's a chicken bred to be small. It can't be both. Could someone confirm the correct answer and edit? (I suspect the latter explanation, since there are supporting details). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.139.221.210 (talk) 17:34, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I raise chickens. I wish I could find something to corroborate, but all I can say is that at least in the US, cornish hens are the exact same variety of chicken as every other type of meat chicken sold in the US. They are a hybrid cross between a Cornish and a Plymouth Rock, and often called Cornish-Rock. That's where they originated, but over the last 50+ years, the genetics have changed significantly. There are a very small handful of companies (2 or 3) that essentially control the genetics of today's very fast growing hybrid chickens. Normally, chickens are slaughtered at 6-7 weeks, but "cornish hens" (which may actually be male) are slaughtered at 4-5 weeks. Same chickens, different age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.241.123.66 (talk) 13:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Cornish game hen in Eraserhead

re: mention of "Cornish Game Hen" in movie "Eraserhead": they are not called "Cornish Game Hens" in the movie. They are referred to (by Mary's father) as "man-made". ("We've got chicken tonight! Strangest damn things! They're man made! Little damn things! Smaller than my fist! but they're new!") Ski_mohawkSki mohawk (talk) 22:28, 17 March 2013 (UTC)031713

Grammar

Despite the name, it is a game bird. Rather, it is a broiler chicken, the most common strain of commercially raised meat chickens.

I assume the mean to say it isn't a game bird but as I don't know enough about game birds I can't say for certain. 76.221.213.176 (talk) 13:45, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Not a hybrid as such

All CGH's are Gallus gallus domesticus. A true hybrid arises from the progeny of two species. Kortoso (talk) 19:13, 30 November 2016 (UTC)