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    black meat breeds, silkies ect....

    Laughingdog, sounds like you and I are of the same mind on this and looking for the same thing. If I ever find a classic silkie I will let you know. My hope is that one of the many hatcheries out there has some "unimproved" stock. The modern American ball-of-fluff birds are pretty variable -...
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    black meat breeds, silkies ect....

    Years ago when I was new to poultry, I thought I would try to work on a larger, meat oriented version of the Silkie by crossing several heritage breeds, and I looked into all this stuff. The more I found out, the more concerned I became about the state of the original breeds themselves. Far...
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    black meat breeds, silkies ect....

    Quote: Hi, I thought I should pass this info on, if you're after a large black meat breed. The big commercial producers of Silkie meat in the U.S. and Canada don't use pure bred Silkies, but instead use a mixed breed that has been developed with the Cornish Cross. These meat "Silkies" grow...
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    black meat breeds, silkies ect....

    Quote: Hi Shadowpaints, did you have to cross in other breeds to get the size up?
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