In fact, AC and any other black boned breeds, are no more than just a meat chicken to somebody. :)
A chicken by any other name, is still a chicken and I or some one/body/thing will eat them
I got him in May of this year at about 2 months old, so................makes him about 6 months old as of processing date.
I guess he could have filled in more with higher protein feed and a little more time(2 more months), but he just had to go, since to much crowing in the morning in a...
Sorry Gloryblue, if you may have thought of purchasing him later on.........................anyway I decided to process him today and this is what he looks like
Not very dark at all, grey-blue color skin, light grey meat, organs, bones, connective tissues etc are dark. It's very lanky, small...
You'll be bussssssssssssssy busssssssssssssssssy next year
and here is a link to for some eye candy Fm birds from China. If you scroll down some, you can see white feather Fm birds too. I think that is how a Fm Bresse would look like...
If they breed by then, I might be able to, but i'm unsure atm.
Can always update you or on this thread, when ever they start making some eggs/chicks for me
Sorry, very bad lighting and from a camera phone(last picture), which makes his face look darker than it really is. But here is what one can expect a male from the "Smithies" to look like at 6-7 months old
2.5 months
to currently 6-7 months old
Those Orphington X cemani chicks you got from your friend, might be 2 males and 4 females, base on the FM X light skin sex link rule? Could also be the opposite and be 4 males and 2 females, since you said before it was cemani hen X Orp roo or could also just be 50/50 like you guess.
In a few...