BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[ronott1]

He would've been 20 weeks this coming Saturday.

Very nice size for that age.

How are you going to cook him?

 

[jbkirk]

Wretched cold kept me home from land shopping. Dr's appointment tomorrow. Maybe I'll get some relief. I just saw on another thread that a lady lost her husband. To a cold. Paranoid anyone, ha

Sounds like you need some vitamin C or in other words absorbic acid, works great on colds.

 

[LindaB220]

What thread?

BYC Cafe

 

[WVduckchick]

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He had cancer.

 

[DesertChic]

Very nice size for that age.

How are you going to cook him?

I think I'm going to give him to our really good friend to smoke. He's been begging for one of my chickens to try out in his new smoker, and with the weather being so warm, it seems like a nice time for a friendly BBQ-style gathering.

 

[ronott1]

I think I'm going to give him to our really good friend to smoke. He's been begging for one of my chickens to try out in his new smoker, and with the weather being so warm, it seems like a nice time for a friendly BBQ-style gathering.

That is a great way to go. I might smoke a chicken soon too.

Maybe a couple of the cockerels from the New Years Day hatch--Trader Joes and Whole Foods fertile eggs. They are 7 weeks old and starting to crow. They sound very silly too.

 

[DesertChic]

That is a great way to go. I might smoke a chicken soon too.

Maybe a couple of the cockerels from the New Years Day hatch--Trader Joes and Whole Foods fertile eggs. They are 7 weeks old and starting to crow. They sound very silly too.

LOL! Oh yes! Young crowers sound ridiculous. My NN cockerel, Ozzy, has the WORST beginner crow I've ever heard. It literally sounds like screeching car tires. The first time my husband heard it he started looking around, thinking that a car was about to crash into something. It's just a one-note screeching sound.

 

[Our Roost]

Although its a nice carcass to cook up, I see the same thing that bothers me in my roosters. The pictured carcass has nice legs and thighs but appears to be lacking in breast meat. Huge breast bone with not much meat attached. A lot of rooster breeds carry weight but not in all the right places. To me hens always have more to offer in the meat department, even though they are smaller framed. Not always, but one can expect a 50-50 hatch of roosters and pullets at birth. A rule of thumb from the data? You just can't have that many roosters running around and we either sell them, eat them, or put them in the soup pot! A few people out there prefer to raise roosters because of the fact they do indeed offer a bigger carcass. Some roosters offer up a very fine meal and some breeds support that thinking. I myself have 2 breeds of roosters that when raised to the right age and weight provide a very tasty bird with plenty of meat. our efforts do not go unwarranted. I wish you well in your efforts.

 

[bnjrob]

Although its a nice carcass to cook up, I see the same thing that bothers me in my roosters. The pictured carcass has nice legs and thighs but appears to be lacking in breast meat. Huge breast bone with not much meat attached. A lot of rooster breeds carry weight but not in all the right places. To me hens always have more to offer in the meat department, even though they are smaller framed. Not always, but one can expect a 50-50 hatch of roosters and pullets at birth. A rule of thumb from the data? You just can't have that many roosters running around and we either sell them, eat them, or put them in the soup pot! A few people out there prefer to raise roosters because of the fact they do indeed offer a bigger carcass. Some roosters offer up a very fine meal and some breeds support that thinking. I myself have 2 breeds of roosters that when raised to the right age and weight provide a very tasty bird with plenty of meat. our efforts do not go unwarranted. I wish you well in your efforts.

Granted, there are many birds that could use improvement in the breast area simply because poultry has been neglected except for egg laying purposes so hatcheries can sell birds, but I didn't think that the bird in question was lacking in that area. For the age, I thought it was a good carcass. This is a real farm bird, one that needs to be able to mate successfully. You can't put a ton of breast meat on a bird without sacrificing something. We see this in the meaty breasts of commercial poultry that cannot mate normally. A hen can get away with a larger breast - she needs it to amply cover eggs. She is also the one on the bottom when it comes time for chicken sex, so big breasts on a hen aren't going to cause mating difficulty like a cock with a big breast.

 

[LindaB220]

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Ha, like I said. Paranoid. She mentioned that they couldn't stop it. Just a cold. I was new on the thread and didn't realize about the cancer. This is how rumors get started. I'll know better next time. I feel her pain. Since losing my DD Aimee to suicide in September you have a lot of time to reflect. It took a flat six months but eventually you learn that there is a reason for the way things happen.