dual purpose meat bird

  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
    • FunClucks
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