Best meat birds?

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It all comes down to a cultural bias for white meat. In many other regions it is a dark meat preference.

"DAFT" Now there is a word I haven't seen used in a while. These days when I use that word people don't understand what it means.
 
What I tell my customers if you're the kind of person who goes straight for the dark meat on a turkey, then you are going to LOVE duck and goose!

The daft thing comes from lovely wife from North Yorkshire (and my mom from Herefordshire). We speak some unintelligible hybrid english thing which endlessly amazes our friends and co-workers. That and we get a lot of blank stares. :|
 
Most of my heritage is scottish and daft was a very common word to hear. Great grandparents when they got mad or excited had half gaelic and half english in their speech. After all the exposure to them I have even caught myself doing it.
 
We use the term daft alot around here seeing as we are mostly Irish/Scottish heritage. Haven't seen anybody use that term but us in a long time
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I would try to Myers poultry Farm in south fork, pa. My husband and I ordered their fast growing Cornish cross this summer and they were the best meat birds we have raised. The breast on the birds seemed alot bigger than others we tried and they grew fast. They were also great to deal with.
 
SEE i have a problem i have already ordered 25 cornish cross chicks (unsexed) but i cannot kill them i live in lenoir nc and i need to know if anyone is out there that can butcher them for me
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MissPrissy said:
I raised jumbo cornish cross last fall. They have made excellent table birds. If you do a search you will find many threads on meat birds. I documented my experience with them in a thread as well.

You will find many opinions on choices of birds but I will be growing out the same jumbo cornish this fall. They have served me very well.

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If you tend the cornish well you will not have leg troubles and there is no bulging anything. They grow big and they grow fast as intended to be dispatched and processed to give the largest amount of meat for the least amount of feed. Age on a chicken is what makes it too tough to do anything with but stew it.
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Where is your thread. I am about to order 25 jumbo Cornish X and its our first time and want it to go perfect! Ha ha.
 
Pete fernBonnie said:
SEE i have a problem i have already ordered 25 cornish cross chicks (unsexed) but i cannot kill them i live in lenoir nc and i need to know if anyone is out there that can butcher them for me
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HELP ME
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This is a very old thread, so you might not get a response from the original folks.

Have you tried the follwing

1. YOur state thread?
2. Extention office-- they will know if anyone is in your area
3. post at your grain store, or a couple stores.
 

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