I noticed that they start to become a challenge about the perfect time to harvest them for meat. The males grow much faster than the females (males seem to be 2 weeks ahead of females around slaughter time). If you really like them try straight run next time if that's an option because I...
If you end up keeping a Red Ranger Female breed him to her, the worst that can happen is that you get a small chicken, but being half Red Ranger it would be a meaty small chicken that puts on size rapidly.
Breed the Bantam Cockerel to Red Rangers for meat birds, its not the size of the meat bird that matters as much as its the rate of growth. Maybe you need 2 birds per meal instead of one with the crossing but that's ok because you get those 2 birds relatively fast. I processed my crossings...
My experience with Red Rangers are that they live and act like normal chickens except they are larger and grow faster. They lay sooner too. As I suspect you already know they grow a little slower than CX. I kept females around for breeding and loved the crosses I got out of them. I never...