I am looking to make my own meatbird The chickens i have are 1 pair of Minorcas, a trio of Copper marans, 1 easter egger hen, 1 bantam RI x large EE, and 2 mutt Pullets.
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I have family in England who leave a Dark Cornish (called Indian Game) in with their hens. Whenever they fancy a crop of meat birds, they simply collect the eggs and incubate. They keep Marans, Dorkings and Light Sussex. So essentially a Cornish X Anything will conceivably work.
Your maran is a good size for being only 5 months old. You could start with him. My best advice i can give is if you want them to grow fast and big and be nice and tender, high protein and pin them up. Good luck..
i just want to know what the best Cockeral to use is. My minorca cockeral is about 12 pounds and a year old and my marans is about 7 pounds and about 5 months old. My minorca hen is about 7 pounds, The easter egger is about 4 or 5 pounds and the mutts are 4 to 6 pounds.(I also have a bantam cornish cock and bantam rocks and RI.