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Grayfields,
You probably are raising your own Rangers now right? If not are you going to order more? I'd like to go in on them with someone as I only want 10 or so. Which puts me out of ordering from the breeders in WI or anywhere else.
Please get back to me on this. Where are you at? I wonder how to find someone in Ohio with those Rangers? I'm looking for not grainy meat (black Rangers) probably the ones with the 7. I'm new at this and I don't want to subject my young boys to something tasting much different than what my brother had with his barred rocks on free range. Different meaning texture. I'll go for a better tasting quality any day on range
that's why I'm getting into this
Thanks Grayfields,
You are such a HUGE help!!!!!!!!!!
Ann
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I got 50 because that was the minimum at that time. A friend down the river only needed 25, so he did an order of 50 and got a couple to go in with him. It saved everyone on shipping really.
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Straight run. No point in doing anything else on meat birds.
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Less messy. They were 3 weeks in brooder, 2 weeks in an 8'x8' tractor, then 4 weeks in a larger tractor 6'x10' with a 160 SF run outside it. I moved the tractor and run weekly.
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Chicktastic
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Interesting question. As a general response, these 'breeds' were developed for the UK and Canada for the organic market. In order to be organic there, the birds can be no younger than 81 days at slaughter. Obviously, a Cornish X at 81 days would be immense, if still alive. So as far as I can tell, they have the same FCR as Cornish X's, but don't drop dead spontaneously.
If I had to guess on the breeding, I'd say the terminal sire was fior sure a White Cornish. I think he was used on a Barred Rock / Light Sussex cross. They have some barring coming through as well as the neck feather pattern you see on a light Sussex; which is a very common breed in England.
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We went with 30 Grey Rangers being Greyfields Farm and all. They are handsome birds for sure. The gourmet blacks look a lot like Barred Rocks, except with yellow in the neck plumage.
My downstream neighbor got Red Rangers, and they are handsome, too. They look like RIR's right now, but with much thicker legs and a wider stance.
You probably are raising your own Rangers now right? If not are you going to order more? I'd like to go in on them with someone as I only want 10 or so. Which puts me out of ordering from the breeders in WI or anywhere else.
Please get back to me on this. Where are you at? I wonder how to find someone in Ohio with those Rangers? I'm looking for not grainy meat (black Rangers) probably the ones with the 7. I'm new at this and I don't want to subject my young boys to something tasting much different than what my brother had with his barred rocks on free range. Different meaning texture. I'll go for a better tasting quality any day on range
Thanks Grayfields,
You are such a HUGE help!!!!!!!!!!
Ann
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I got 50 because that was the minimum at that time. A friend down the river only needed 25, so he did an order of 50 and got a couple to go in with him. It saved everyone on shipping really.
Quote:
Straight run. No point in doing anything else on meat birds.
Quote:
Less messy. They were 3 weeks in brooder, 2 weeks in an 8'x8' tractor, then 4 weeks in a larger tractor 6'x10' with a 160 SF run outside it. I moved the tractor and run weekly.
Quote:
Chicktastic
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Interesting question. As a general response, these 'breeds' were developed for the UK and Canada for the organic market. In order to be organic there, the birds can be no younger than 81 days at slaughter. Obviously, a Cornish X at 81 days would be immense, if still alive. So as far as I can tell, they have the same FCR as Cornish X's, but don't drop dead spontaneously.
If I had to guess on the breeding, I'd say the terminal sire was fior sure a White Cornish. I think he was used on a Barred Rock / Light Sussex cross. They have some barring coming through as well as the neck feather pattern you see on a light Sussex; which is a very common breed in England.
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We went with 30 Grey Rangers being Greyfields Farm and all. They are handsome birds for sure. The gourmet blacks look a lot like Barred Rocks, except with yellow in the neck plumage.
My downstream neighbor got Red Rangers, and they are handsome, too. They look like RIR's right now, but with much thicker legs and a wider stance.