Best chicken to eat...

[Anime2lover]

I am looking to raise some chicks for meat birds. What type grow fast and are good to eat?

Cornish cross. They get big, make great roaster birds. The downside is they get injured easily, aren't heat tolerant, and poop a ton.

 

[CNJ]

I don’t think Cornish X taste good. Some people love their meat, I just don’t and so stopped eating chicken as it is industry standard now. Only way I will eat chicken again is if I kill my own. I agree they grow fast, but I do not like their taste.

Have you tasted Chinese soy chicken before? The Cornish x chicken's meat texture is ideal for this dish.

I am going to try this red bean curd marinade next.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Have you tasted Chinese soy chicken before? The Cornish x chicken's meat texture is ideal for this dish.

I am going to try this red bean curd marinade next.

Looks yummy.

 

[They Call Me Pete]

I have heard Bresse chickens are one of the best tasting chickens. Problem I have is I can’t have any roosters so I’m hesitant to raise meat birds…. my luck I’d end up with all roosters

 

[CNJ]

I have heard Bresse chickens are one of the best tasting chickens. Problem I have is I can’t have any roosters so I’m hesitant to raise meat birds…. my luck I’d end up with all roosters

I have a 2 chicken residential limit where I live, but I have been talking to my neighbors and they are okay with me raising chickens. I keep no crow collars on my breeding roosters when they start to crow and I have decided to process all the other crowing roosters, regardless of how big they are.

I have to keep on top of things like laying down new pine shavings when it starts to smell and setting fly and rat traps when I notice a problem.


The French like to say the Breese chicken is the best tasting, but the truth of the matter is, its not. A Breese crossed with a Cornish X is the best tasting chicken in my opinion.

My pure Breese runt rooster dressed at 3 lbs and my Breese/Cornish x cross rooster dressed at 6 lbs.. Furthermore, the meat texture on the Breese/Cornish x cross was soft and delicate in comparison to the hard and rubbery Breese rooster.

 

[rascal66]

Definitely not easy, but we have been able to successfully free range our Cornish. We feed a little less and butcher a little later but we still end up with large meaty birds. We process as 10-12 weeks with an average of 5lbs easy. The grass really helps improve the flavor as well, I think.

Just to share a couple pictures of the ranging Cornish. (Thankfully we didn't have too many issues with aerial predators but we did have a couple attempts. They are close enough to our house we can keep a watchful eye.