Thank you for the info, all of what your are saying about the Cornish rocks be the heritage birds is what I already suspected.
I am fine with a longer grow out time I guess I was hoping to find a single serving type bird which does not seem to exist on a heritage scale.
I am also looking...
I have a question for any experienced meat chicken enthusiasts.
I am jumping into my first foray of raising meat chickens and I have narrowed my breed possibilities down to a few sustainable heritage breeds which I plan to try out.
The question I have is:
Is there a heritage equivalent to...
I know this is an old thread but I am interested in raising NN for meat. What specific type is used for "Poulet Rouge" and is it just the method or is it a hybrid?
How do they compare to heritage breeds like bresse, sulmtaler or any similar specialty breeds?
Does anyone have opinions about...
The message was to the original poster. There is nothing in the rules prohibiting my post. I am not hijacking anyone's ad and quite frankly I don't see what the issue is. If they find a super secret source and don't want to share out of fear that someone won't get enough eggs then they don't...
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I am relatively new to keeping chickens and I love mine. They have a very large covered run but I have every kind of predator imaginable and I don't want them to get eaten soooo inside they stay.
I currently have 6 sexlinks, a shamo roo and a shamo hen, a sf cochin, a brahma and...
I just set up my new coop with 8 chickens, 1 shamo roo 1 shamo pullet and 6 sex link pullets. The shamo pullet is bullying the crap out of the sex links and I don't know how long I should wait this out. They were all introduced to the coop at the same time but the shamo pullet is blocking the...