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Thank you! We are not entirely off grid. Our house has sufficient electricity and we have a standing freezer as well as a large chest freezer. So storage isn’t an issue. All of of our outbuildings are off grid though, both for electric and water. It is our hope to run power up there in the next...

Well that’s generally what we do with our layers. We are trying lots of different breeds to determine what are going to be staples in the long run. as for meat birds, yes we have cold and harsh winters, but the temps aren’t so bad as early as April or as late as late October. That still gives...

I will check that thread out! Im currently unsure about the energy I want to put into breeding. Letting my layers/dual purpose just do their thing is about where I’m at for now. We just got roosters this year, so this coming spring will be our first potential home breeds! I will be trying to...

Not large. The biggest ones we’ve harvested are probably in the range of a white leghorn. Quite Lean, all the meat is pretty dark. But we also hunt chukar and California quail, and both of those are much smaller as well. So really, even our various breeds of layers/dual purpose will all be larger

Thats so interesting! And completely makes sense! We will still be butchering from our egg laying flock each year, and our goal is to maintain about 1/2-3/4 of that flock as home mixed breeds. So it will be interesting to see what future years of “barnyard mixes” produces! As for our meat...

Ive heard mixed reviews about the CornishX. Thanks for your experience! We are not too horribly concerned with size. As long as the breed we choose in general gets larger than a wild grouse, then it will feel worth the time, I think.

Thank you! We don’t really care about dark vs light meat. Up until this point, we either eat whatever we get from the store, or eat game birds that we hunt. Store meat is mostly white, nothing special, game birds are mostly dark meat.

Oohh that’s neat about the dark skin! I’ll keep that in mind! Naked necks are so funny 😂 do they get to a decent butcher size? We don’t have equipment, but a local co-op rents it all out for $25 for two days! So we will be using a tumbler for plucking.

Hey there! I wondering what people’s favorite meat birds out there are! We raise chickens for ourselves, and the feed cost ratios don’t really matter to us. We also have sufficient space, so raising a longer maturing breed is also not an issue. Currently, our family raises dual purpose breeds...