A better breed than Cornish Cross?

Wow, they start crowing at 7 weeks?!  We are going to try these next spring.  I'll keep that in mind and plan for it.  We have a tight schedule on brooding/processing since we have only one brooding space for our chicks/broilers/turkeys.  So we have to plan carefully when everything has to be done.  Plus we rent a plucker and we have to rent that in advance (usually booking it before we even get the chicks!).


We've had EE start crowing at 7 weeks and most recently 1 of the 3 Bresse I hatched did one time (and he was actually really good at it for his 1st time!). He hasn't done it again since I caponized him on Saturday. About the only ones that haven't crowed young were the CX that never did.
We're trying to raising our own from hatch now, but with only 1 laid back intact rooster (he's a Breese) we have to see how it goes.
The Red Rangers were great to raise and if we end up having to buy meat chicks again that's definitely the ones we're going with. :)

Happy raising!
 

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