black meat breeds, silkies ect....

[Raheem Hawj]

Great Thread! i breed some black meat chickens

 

[Kassaundra]

I had forgotten about this thread. I do have Fm birds, had some good ones until a recent preditor attack, but mine are NN. The survivors are on the small side so I have to work on getting size back up. And my darkest ones are gone so it will probably be several generations before I get some good dark going again.














Sadly all these birds are gone now.

 

[LittleApplegate]

Where to find breeders/chicks of these Large, Black meat birds?
Thanks!

 

[Kassaundra]

Where to find breeders/chicks of these Large, Black meat birds?
Thanks!

They aren't real easy to find that is for sure. Looking at the threads that deal more w/ dark skinned ones is a start and asking those that post if they sell eggs or chicks. I don't have enough Fm birds left to sell any eggs as hatching any out reliably, and the ones I have left are on the small size. There are a few breeds that have the dark skin that you could get and cross w/ larger breeds for Fm mixes if you don't mind mixes. GFF has one really dark skinned cremini (or something like that) anyway it is waaaaaaaaaaay expensive.

 

[bluenkimchi]

Are you guys sure there aren't any standard/large size/meat type silkie in the USA? I know in California, espcially my part of the state has lots of big white silkies for sale. I've already posted these same pic before on a few threads, but everyone likes pics, so here they are






And tomorrow, I get my Ayam cemani cockerel from Mike/wolfwhyte, will upload pics when I get him at the PO.

 

[Kassaundra]

Are you guys sure there aren't any standard/large size/meat type silkie in the USA? I know in California, espcially my part of the state has lots of big white silkies for sale. I've already posted these same pic before on a few threads, but everyone likes pics, so here they are






And tomorrow, I get my Ayam cemani cockerel from Mike/wolfwhyte, will upload pics when I get him at the PO.

There is at least one bycer that has large silkies. I do not remember her user name, it was some time ago when we had a conversation about it. I would think there would be others too.

 

[bluenkimchi]

Forgot to mention, those pics are of my large silkies. Top pic is a bantam hen and a lf silkie pullet together, second pic is cockerel and a Brahma roo, so you guys get a pic of just how big the LF/meat type silkie are in comparison to a standard LF dual purpose breed.

 

[erasound]

 

[erasound]

All three of the above are black meat.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I guess my DipsyGoths would fall in this category. I have large fowl single comb DipsyGoths, pea comb DipsyGoth Green-Eggers, and Naked Neck DipsyGoths in black, blue, splash.