Cornish Game Hens

 

 

 

In the United States, a Cornish game hen, also sometimes called a Cornish hen, poussin, Rock Cornish hen, or simply Rock Cornish, is a hybrid chicken. Cornish Game hen is a a young immature chicken that is less than five weeks of age and weighing no more than two pounds ready-to-cook. Cornish Game Hen also has shorter growing span of only 28 to 30 days. It is not a game bird but a broiler chicken and the most common strain of commercially raised meat chickens. Though the bird is called a “hen”, it can be either male or female.