Hi, I'm just bumping this because I posted it over the weekend and it got buried. Curious to hear from the guys in the forum who I know are raising buckeyes for meat, brunty, bigredfeather?
I harvested my last six buckeye roos over the weekend and one up and died on me randomly the night...
This last weekend I harvested my buckeye roosters -- I had 15 roos from hatchery (Ideal) stock. And...I have issues.
I'm aware that hatchery buckeyes are not up to the breed standard, so I had expected these chickens to be smaller and less "meaty" than the better bred meat-class buckeyes...