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My shipped eggs didn't hatch :( but I did process a white bresse roo yesterday, and am now sold on this breed as a meat bird. I culled an ayam cemani at the same time that was 6 weeks older. The bresse had more meat, fat and was a breeze to dress out. Unlike the cemani. Can you say holy lots...

Well the white bresse hatching eggs I got from Sapphire Farms are on lockdown. A few have started to internally pip :) Sapphire Farms supposedly has unrelated wb roos over gff pullets. I was told by someone else they MIGHT have used Californian bluefoot for roos not unrelated white bresse...

I had already been lurking on the thread you mentioned ;) my white bresse are from gff lines through a private breeder. I have someone that has white bresse hatching eggs with an unrelated white bresse roo over the hens that I'm wanting to get as soon as I figure out what I'm doing hatching with...

I'm trying not to let chicken math get the best of me, which is why I will sell off my assorted layers and the chicks I hatch out (olive eggers) to offset feed costs and getting new blood lines because I do like how heavy the white bresse are. I like the fibromelanistic chickens too. We have...

I'm only on .5 acre, but we are actively looking for land to buy to build up our homestead to start this spring. I have realized my limitations with space, as I have 3 chicken coops/pens, 2 big brooders in the barn.. the malines interest me. I see inbreeding issues with the white bresse, I am...

I'm hoping that as long as we process by the time they are 6 months old they will be tender. We had some speckled sussex, whoa talk about a crow! They were the first we sent to freezer camp lol. We definitely rest the roos 3 days before sticking them in the freezer or cooking them. I am very...

The roos in particular I'm speaking of are only 11 weeks old right now, I'm planning on 12 more weeks before processing them b/c it's below zero and they are expending a lot of energy staying warm. I have white bresse and ayam cemani that were hatched at the same time- beginning of October...

I have found the white bresse and the ayam cemani both to have impressive weight at their age especially going on 3 months old (11 weeks atm). We processed speckled sussex, production reds, barred rock, silver laced wyandottes and white star roos so far. I think a plucker would make things...

The last of my chicks arrived late last night, 8 white bresse, and a total of 8 ac & 4 haffies This will be an interesting project for me to work on. We're going to be getting muscovy ducks this weekend to add to all my meat projects, which includes bunnies too now lol. We're picking up...

That's a pretty good size on your malines, are they very difficult to find a good source of that breed? I'm excited about the white bresse and more ayam cemani chicks in the next week or two, then no more until spring. In another thread on byc there was a member that wrote about auto sexing a...

Caponizing intimidates me, but after reading more, and talking with my bf, we'll do it with the males I have running around outside atm to #1 prevent crowing #2 better meat quality #3 practice. Everyone made it through another night phew.

It is a challenge and experiment. I'm going to have to learn to caponize. I may as well learn on the .80 each or free chicks than ones that are very expensive. But then again, with so much going on, I might wait until I get the next flocks up and laying/breeding well and try on those hatchlings.

I just got some ayam cemani x orpington chicks from a friend yesterday. Intended for my meatie projects, and acquiring svart honas soon as well as bresse and pure breed ayam cemani (orpington rooster jumped the fence into the cemani run it seems). I know everything plays a part, breed...