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    Raising Meat Birds for Breeding

    With breeding the hybrids would there be a greater chance of developing some health issues? If your saying it would take time to get a breed to what you like/want, with a hybrid the further you go down the line the higher chances of issues?
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    Raising Meat Birds for Breeding

    Thanks for that! Maybe it wouldn’t be bad to try it out, at this point we’re open to whatever. It might make more sense for us to keep cycling meat birds every year then doing a dual purpose bird.
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    Raising Meat Birds for Breeding

    Yes, the plan was to have some strictly layers and then separate meat birds. The Australorps were given to us and unfortunately we only have 4 hens. Any suggestions on a good rooster to maybe breed them with for meat? They are just about two years old at this point.
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    Raising Meat Birds for Breeding

    Thanks for the help! I think we are just going to scratch the idea of trying to breed the Rangers. I guess now it just depends on how we want to go about this, because we have about 15 laying hens with a few roosters. 11 Brown Novogen layers with three roosters and a few Austrolorps left over...
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    Raising Meat Birds for Breeding

    Hello! I am fairly new to raising chickens. This will be our second year, but our first starting with chicks. We have decided to do meat birds, Freedom Rangers to be exact. They are about 3 weeks old now, but we separated one rooster and 5 hens at a couple days old. We want to keeps these birds...
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