dual purpose meat bird

  1. FunClucks

    Is this Fatty Liver Disease? (With autopsy/processed chicken pictures)

    TLDR: Is this fatty liver disease? Pictures below/attached. Enlarged heart and kidneys, lots of fat along the intestines and 3x the expected amount of fat in her fat pad on her abdomen. Had unshelled eggs in her ovaries, but I haven't seen her lay an egg since at least December. I feed 20%...
  2. D

    Feeding a mixed flock

    I have a small homestead and I have raised hens for eggs for about ten years but I would like to start raising chickens for meat. I am looking at getting about 30 or 40 dual purpose heritage breed chickens (not sure exactly which variety yet) and my thought was that I would raise them to...
  3. AZHomesteadPoultry

    Bielefelder X Delaware Broiler Sex-links, AKA Delafelder Breeding Project

    This has been a really fun journey, and I’d like to share it with you while also keeping a short account of my experiences. I’ll try not to be long-winded, but I’m enjoying myself, so I hope you enjoy this as well. My current breeding project involves crossing Bielefelder roosters with Enhanced...
  4. mandelyn

    Processing Video - Hand Plucking - Cooked same day

    Several months ago I started documenting my flock and methods on YT. Finally got to do a processing video. Our freezer didn't have any chicken in it, since we were between harvest batches, but I did have a group of 14 week old American Bresse cockerels. So I went out and selected one that looked...
  5. FunClucks

    Bachelor pad for cockerels raised for meat - helpful advice?

    I hatched 20 of my own eggs and came up with at least 14 cockerels. They are Production Red x Prairie Bluebell mainly, and are flighty, active, and a number of them are aggressive to each other and me. They are only 5 weeks old, and about the size of a songbird, not quite the size of a pigeon...
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