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One Cornish hen per person is considered an appropriate serving, though larger hens can be split in half to feed two people. Most sources credit the Makowsky's of Connecticut for developing the small bird in the mid-1950s, while other historians crediting Donald John Tyson of Tyson Foods with the initial idea for breeding and marketing the hens in the 1960's.
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 sold whole.Despite the name, it is not a game bird. Rather, it is a broiler chicken, the most common strain of commercially raised meat chickens. cornish hen typically commands a higher price per pound than typically sold chickens, despite a shorter growing span of 28 to 30 days, as opposed to 42 or more for regular chicken. The Rock Cornish game hen or Rock Cornish hen is a cross between the Cornish Game and White Plymouth Rock chicken breeds.