BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Beer can]

is the 3 finger thing always right though? I'd be scared I was butchering hens that were laying and at this point where I am now I couldn't do that because I'd have no eggs.   I still really don't know HOW to tell who's laying and who's not.  I haven't had to buy nasty store bought eggs since I bought my chicks back in 2011 I think it was. It's time for some new girls.

Egg trap nests.

 

[Beer can]

I never brined before. I brined a large giant cockerel recently and it turned out delicious. Leg/thigh meat dark as a turkey and tender, moist. Breast meat while not as thick as a cornishX, there was plenty of it and tender and juicy also.

 

[Our Roost]

I cant contribute much on what to or not to cross. I "have" processed a couple of our blue orpington hens and they were not only tasty, but fantasticly a true dual purpose breed with some meat on it. I like the sound of dark cornish crossed with white cornish. I will be getting some neiderrhiners come spring and will keep you posted on how they shape up.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

We had another "special" chicken dinner, two approx. 800 gram cornish cross chickens, packaged together on sale half price- regular price was $12 bucks (!)
Between the two of us, there's still a leg, a back and a whole chicken left over. So I'm definitely looking at an even smaller bird. I want to find the magic breed/age that will leave no leftovers. Still experimenting!
It's crazy, a "cornish hen" is 12 bucks, about 2/3 the size of one of the chickens we ate which were 3 bucks apiece. Goes to show that branding really works. Of course, I'm not fooled!

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

An interesting experiment:

http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/FNC12-866/?page=final

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

An interesting experiment:

http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/FNC12-866/?page=final

This is super interesting... Thanks for posting!

 

[Beer can]

An interesting experiment:

http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/FNC12-866/?page=final

Yes very interesting. I posted it awhile ago. gjensen had a pretty good comment post #3524. There was another link discussed back then....was going to post link my phone makes it fifty lines long, it was 'why nothing especially chicken taste like it used to' post #3517.
Page #118 on my phone.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Yes very interesting. I posted it awhile ago. gjensen had a pretty good comment post #3524. There was another link discussed back then....was going to post link my phone makes it fifty lines long, it was 'why nothing especially chicken taste like it used to' post #3517.
Page #118 on my phone.

Ooops sorry, I haven't read through all the posts on this thread yet- sorry for the duplication! I'm going back to read gJ's comment, thanks for listing the number.



Edit: Page 353 on my computer.

 

[Beer can]

Ooops sorry, I haven't read through all the posts on this thread yet- sorry for the duplication!  I'm going back to read gJ's comment, thanks for listing the number. 



Edit: Page 353 on my computer.

No biggie, I never read the whole thread either. It was a interesting little 'experiment', some other new readers here that haven't read the whole thread might find it interesting, good you posted it. Only reason I brought it up was I remembered gjensen commented on it and I couldn't remember what he had to say so I went back to check and saw there was another link discussed that day.

 

[DesertChic]

Ooops sorry, I haven't read through all the posts on this thread yet- sorry for the duplication! I'm going back to read gJ's comment, thanks for listing the number.



Edit: Page 353 on my computer.

No biggie, I never read the whole thread either. It was a interesting little 'experiment', some other new readers here that haven't read the whole thread might find it interesting, good you posted it. Only reason I brought it up was I remembered gjensen commented on it and I couldn't remember what he had to say so I went back to check and saw there was another link discussed that day.

@Beer can in right. There's a lot of information on this thread and it doesn't hurt to repost things from time to time. I still have to repost my favorite chicken recipe. I just haven't had time to find my original post or re-type the darn thing.