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Farm Chic, I just looked over some photos of Old English Game on Feathersite. It's hard to tell just from photos, of course, but they look like they may have a fairly muscular build, compared to a lot of other breeds. The ones I looked at, appeared to have a wide stance, and a nicely rounded...

Quote: If I understand this broody thing correctly (I've never had a hen go broody) she stops laying eggs for about a month. That's probably a couple dozen eggs lost. That would be about $4.00 for me. Does anyone who keeps breeders keep careful track of costs associated with keeping them...

If my hens hatch out chicks, the chicks are basically free. I still have to feed them, that's not free, but if I bought chicks and paid shipping, I'd still have the expense of feeding them. Even if I hatch them in my incubator, they're very cheap, because my 'bator doesn't use much juice...

Hey, Farm Chic, since you have all those nice heavy breed hens, if you can manage the separation part, why not try some chicks from each roo, and see which ones turn out the best? Or just let them all run around together, and see what you get. I don't know if you already know this, but you have...

Farm Chic, if, like most of us, you consider any bird you kill and eat to be meat, then yes, anything you raise from any of those eggs will be a meat chicken, and tasty, regardless of the size it attains or time it takes to mature. I know some will say that certain birds are good only for soup...

Quote: No prob, if you are attached to them, then by all means, keep them. I didn't realize they were pets. You can eat any chicken, so if you end up with extras that you can butcher, I'd certainly do that, no matter what the mix is. The FR's might indeed be a good choice for you, for meat...

Quote: I didn't mean add roos, I meant replace roos! Too many roos is not a good thing. If you stick with the ones you have for breeding, you can eat the offspring, they just won't be very big or meaty. But they will be tasty. As far as which is best, that's highly subjective. Best flavor...

With the roos you have, I'd look for another roo. None of these are really very good for breeding meat birds. They'll taste fine, but will be teeny little things, and most likely scrawny besides. So you'll be raising a small amount of tasty meat, on a pile of bones. But if you're like me, if you...