I've just resently heard about a breed of chicken called a white sully that supposedly was over 20lbs, from somehow crossing RIR and someting else, How is this possible? Or can it be done again. Grant Sullens was the man responsible, somewhere in CA. Any information on the man or the chicken would be helpful. thanks Val

Val; I remember the story you're refering to while it was happening.It was all in the local papers.Seems a young boy Grant Sullens, was using some comercial chickens that his father won in a card game,after several generations of selecting only for size he did indeed produce some phenomenal sized birds.Seed stock was procured from him by Max Foster(Foster Farms)and studied for commercial viability it was decided that they had none.I'm pretty sure that the boy discontinued his project then.Anyway those monster chickens turned out to be based on White Rock,White Cornish crosses used comercially without regard for feed conversion,rate of maturation etc.Non productive.

Thanks for responding, maybe I'll try it myself, or maybe not. thanks anyhow, Val

Val, Those particular huge birds, if I remember correctly were VICIOUS, and the experiment was unsuccessful. CJR

I was going to try the same thing using Jersey giants, Malays, Cornish, Brahmas, Shamos and Langshans. I worked for a couple of years on the exact breeding sequences (on paper and computer) but finally gave up because of the time and obvious patience it would require such as the cost of finding all the breeds and constructing separate breeding pens, incubation schedules, tagging the hatches, culling, disposal of culled hatches, crossing the crosses, , ad infinitem, etc, etc.. It took up all my spare time and drove my wife crazy. The thing is that alot of it has to do with dumb luck and that one chick that comes out and you say "that's it, Eureka'. And after all...who really needs a super giant monster chicken except on the late, late show?