Any meat birds that you can breed and get more meaties?

[Bossroo]

Since Thanksgiving is coming up... The best dinner we had for our last Thanksgiving family gathering was when I prepared a turduckhen and my wife stuffed and roasted . After dinner there were No leftovers, no bones, just a bunch of overstuffed satisfied happy folk. Ahhhhhhh !!!

 

[antlers]

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Disagree but then thats your right to think so.

 

[greyfields]

Track your food input, duration of crop, etc. then get back to me. They simply are not economically viable unless:

1) You have unlimited time.

2) Free food to feed them.

The rate of growth and FCR's don't stack up against broilers. When you do this experiment (as I have) you will find the price per pound to be cheaper going to Whole Foods and buying organic, free ranged, day spa pampered chicken.

If you want to raise dual purpose chickens simply for the love of chickens or for the experience, by all means do so. But, the body conformation isn't correct and I'd never consider selling any to my customers, they'd never come back for another bird.

 

[DaKid]

kenman

DaKid wrote:
am wanting to try the meat birds...but would be grand to be able to have them propagate (via natural or bator) and have endless meat birds.

I know nothing on meat birds....I have only layers but some are considered dual purpose.

well I can only say is i keep 4 girls --meat birds -X rockS - which have been laying eggs for some time now , so I try ed and have placce my LT. Braham Roo with them in which I have 8 hatching chicks now 3 weeks old also I place my Golden Orp roo with them afterwards and have 6 hatching chicks also about 2 half weeks old ....so I'M wondering and want to see how they will turn out ....right now there with 5 RI R chicks with all hatcring about or aroung the same time and the RI Reds are a lot smaller then the rest so I'm keeping tabs on them and will weigth them this weekend to see the difference in weigth , but so far the x-rock cross are bigger then the RI R


AL.

If I understand correctly, you have cornish X white rock cross hens that you have crossed with a Braham and Buff Orpington? I am very interested in how these grow out. I am thinking about trying cornish x white rock with Barred rock, Buff orp., or black australorp to produce meat chickens that also lay. Any information on what you find with yours would be appreciated.
Kenman

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you bet I just purchase a new camera card for my camera seeing my wife has the other 4 cards full up ,so I will be taking and posting pic.'s from my X-Rock X's crosses that Im try to breed and I post the m here if ya want but I will start my own post page so I don't over rule this one .....keep a look out for within a few days



trying to get best of both worlds yep I 'm try it's a hobby but I do have just birds for egglaying and some just for meat but if I can get something in-between also I'll be a very happy camper

Al.​

 

[Jessika]

You are more than welcome to hijack my thread!!

I would love to see...if you do decide start your own thread just post a link on here so I can find it.

 

[skeeter]

my goodness, whos talking about selling anything to anyone,were just talking about putting a little meat back in so when we cull a roo or a hen there is something there besides bones,
When I was a kid we ate our own chickens all the time and I guarantee we didnt worry about feed conversion ratios,and it was way cheaper than store bought birds

 

[kstaven]

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Cross a dorking with a cornish and they produce a nice home meat bird or just use a good line of dorkings. The hens are little round 8 pound footballs and the roosters go to about 11 if you get good lines in the dorking.

The delaware can be a good option also. there seem to be quite a few good ones around.

 

[dancingbear]

Cornish roo over Dorking hen, if what I've read is correct.
Kstaven, do you know if it works just as well the other way around? I haven't read anything that specifically says.

I'm also wanting to try the Delawares. They were once the preferred meat bird, before the CC's.

 

[Jessika]

Great discussion guys! I love to hear all points of view! Thanks again.....I am learning soooo much.

 

[DaKid]

Ok here the thread I started on my X-Rock Crosses with Pic.s

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=92419


enjoy Ya'll

Al