As promised A&M meat VS Pharaoh Meat

[First To Hatch]

Even if the one on the right is not fully cooked, the one on the left is a white breasted bird.

 

[Overeasyplz]

I edited my last statement with new information about the ebay seller in question. Just for informational purposes only

 

[Country Living Farm]

maybe a stupid question but.....

Is there a way to tell when they are alive, if it is white meat or dark meato or will I wait to few to kill and see.

 

[farrier!]

I bought some of the "A & M" off of a seller on ebay. I am still waiting for them to get big.....

They are smaller then my browns. I may keep a few just for their color but I think most going for supper.
I now have enough browns from 4 separate breeders that I can breed now for size. It is fun seeing what you can do by selective breeding....

 

[bigjohn]

I have eaten both the dark meat birds and the lighter meat birds. There is a definite difference in color and a much milder taste with the Texas A&M. They both taste good, but I prefer the 'lighter' color meat of the Texas A&M.

The key here is to actually have a true A&M bird to begin with and not a mixed bird. I never had really large A&M's in my flock but they were certainly whiter meat birds compared to browns or the original coturnix birds.

 

[speckledhen]

This thread has been reported. Since there is some interesting information here, we will try to leave it open, but could you folks please stop

?? Carry on.



ETA: interesting that there are several folks from Georgia in this thread. canter6, we lived in Dacula for five years.

 

[JJMR794]

Rofl------------ Nice Ms Cynthia, Very Nice! Love The Cat Fight Smiley!

 

[farrier!]

Well...my daughter has decided she can vent sex. So when we decide on suppers I will do both types of quail. I do not have an opinion either way. I just would like nice fast growing suppers to be....

Looking at a varity of color is always nice.

 

[cpartist]

Quote:
Here is the current ebay listing by the breeder identified by the OP. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320467290380#ht_500wt_1182

You can get them for a lot less than 100.

I'd like to try some as well, but it's hard to justify spending for eggs when we are getting 50+ a day from our own birds. The first A&M's we got were much smaller than our Jumbos. By keeping only the largest few birds with the least amount of black, we now are producing nearly all white chicks who are larger but still a tad bit smaller than the Jumbo's. The meat looks and tastes the same, though. I'd really like to raise some that look and taste like the OP's. I think the skepticism here is because people expect to see white meat look like chicken breast when in reality it's probably more like a bob white's and sort of like pork (the other white meat) in coloring.

 

[Wifezilla]

Reading this thread has helped me determine my little "Snowball" is an English White. As long as she keeps laying eggs, I can get over the fact that she is a Limey instead of a Texan.