I appreciate your perspective. Those cutr fluff balls are beginning to exhibit a vulture appearance and mentality. Hopefully there will be moatly cokerels among them! At what age do you cull your dual purpose? And what is the quality of their meat vs the meat only?
At least with the CX you know that they will die as a matter of coarse within a short time due to their genetics. This, in my mind, makes culling this breed almost a necessary evil.
We do have a flock that are our pets, including the gentlemanly roo from which we bred this brood for meat. We...
We originally purchased dual purpose birds simply for eggs from which we could hatch birds for meat.
With the help of Fabio the roo, and our Nuture Right incubator we hatched 14 peeps. They are melting our hearts with their cuteness. How do others steal themselves against emotions to where...