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    Ended Official BYC 2022 Summer Fair—Meat Bird Show

    Thank you!
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    American Bresse?

    It's great to see someone else trying this. I used the diet on some Freedom Rangers last year (I couldn't get my hands on Bresse chicks in a timely manner but wanted to practice) and the meat was extraordinary. I've got 33 Bresse at about 70 days old right now foraging and then I'm going to...
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    Hi. I misspoke slightly. I should have said "air chilling" vs "water bath chilling." I used my dad's colloquialism in describing the process... After they are butchered they are hung in a cold room to chill down vs being left to soak in cold water. There are a handful of farms and processors...
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    Bresse and Maran Cross?

    Hey there. I just got some Bresse-Maran chicks from a breeder. They are only a couple weeks old but already big compared to the regular Bresse. I'll let you know how it goes. They have some variance in their markings, leg color, some have booting already some don't...Here's a few photos. This...
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    American Bresse?

    Hi. I've had the opportunity to eat a French Bresse chicken in France at Bocuse Restaurant. It was pretty darn good but they are raising them much differently than most of us here in the states. Generally the Bresse are called "American Bresse" here in the states because aside from their...
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    New Member Intro Ortum Antiqua

    Thanks. I can't take most of the credit. I'm here now, but my parents bought it in 1975 (I was a newborn) as an abandoned potato farm and have been working on it ever since. That veggie garden is their version of "taking it easy."
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    Ended Official BYC 2022 Summer Fair—Meat Bird Show

    Sustainable Meat Breed category: White Bresse (American Bresse) - Black Maran Cross Poult at 3 weeks old.
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    New Member Intro Ortum Antiqua

    Thanks! I'll check it out.
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    New Member Intro Ortum Antiqua

    Hello, I was raised on a subsistence farm in Northern Michigan where we have continuously had chickens of all sorts over the 47 years we have been here. We have raised Guineafowl, geese, turkey and of course lots of chickens for butchering and egg production. My parents are in thier 80's and...
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