bantam cornish as meat birds?

[Tracydr]

Just look for RAW Prey model diet on the web. The most useful information that I've found has come from a dog food chat forum and a yahoo group. Not sure I can post the a dresses here but you can easily find them or pm me for details.
I'm a member of a coop here in Phoenix so I can get meat at a reasonable price for the dogs. It comes in huge, bulk boxes. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours cutting up sixty pounds of beef hearts. They just love heart. Yuck!

 

[yinepu]

we eat silkies and bantams.. i say go for it!

by the way.. they are really good on the grill wrapped with bacon.. maybe stuffed with some jalapenos and cheese....

 

[cottagechick]

Ok...I have chickens on the brain...I read this...

"I'm a member of a coop" I thought maybe it was like a community garden....a community coop...lol..

 

[wyoDreamer]

Quote:
I read the same thing - and was expecting to hear about chicken parts. The beef heart threw me for a minute or so.
Then read your post and said - oh! co-op, not coop

must be too early yet for me to think ..

 

[Oregon Blues]

People do eat small chickens. You pay extra to get those bitty little Cornish game hens at the market.

My issue with it is that if I must stick my hands into a steaming stinking mass of hot guts, I want a large meal and a leftover chicken sandwich to show for it. Same work, 5 pounds of meat vs 1/2 pound of meat.

(After saying that, I will clean and eat quail)

 

[theoldguy]

Dark Cornish Bantams ,when mature weigh near 4 lbs (cockerels). figure half of that is feathers guts and misc pieces. your carcass is near or at 2 lbs. I raise bantam Dark Cornish. There ya go, Larry P.S. they eat about a 1/4 of what a large fowl eats,figure the math out

 

[kfacres]

My breeding cornish cock standard size is 15 pounds. Makes sense that the quarter the bird eats a quarter amount and gives a quarter the product

 

[theoldguy]

Hi, your birds are well above the breed standard as far as weight goes. Are they Cornish cross meat birds or pure Cornish and what type of Cornish are they? I have true Cornish show birds.That is definitely a large bird you have. Larry

 

[kfacres]

Heaviest pure bird was straight standard dark. Blood lines originated from a lady in iowa.

 

[theoldguy]

Interesting ,good luck with your birds