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Even when heritage dual purpose chickens were actually dual purpose there were always chickens that were better for layers and chickens that were better for meat. In the old days they didn't have hatcheries that would ship a box of chicks across the country in two days or the ability to buy...

There was a guy over in the egg selling section of BYC a couple of months back who had been breeding the FRs for a few generations. He said that when you breed the FRs you still get a meat bird, but you get a lot of variability in growout. If you hatch 20 birds you don't get 20 identical birds...