We are really wanting to do meat birds but we need to cut down on the cost. I would like it to be nothing! (at least for the bird) So I have an idea.. Please let me know if you all think this would work.
If I was to get one cornish cross roo and let him mate with my girls.. Whenever we needed some meat we could incubate the eggs and raise them as meat birds.
Here is my reasoning. We have 16 growing ladies.. Rare breed variety from MM. Not very good meat birds.. although the cochins are fairly large along with the black sex links. I would like large birds to butcher no sence in small meat birds. (we have polish birds, way too small). So if I breed them with with a super bird we would have "fairly" large birds to butcher, and we could raise a few at a time vs getting 25 (min order) and having to set up another pen, We do not have the room at all.
Has anyone done this? I need suggestions.
Thanks
Lenora
If I was to get one cornish cross roo and let him mate with my girls.. Whenever we needed some meat we could incubate the eggs and raise them as meat birds.
Here is my reasoning. We have 16 growing ladies.. Rare breed variety from MM. Not very good meat birds.. although the cochins are fairly large along with the black sex links. I would like large birds to butcher no sence in small meat birds. (we have polish birds, way too small). So if I breed them with with a super bird we would have "fairly" large birds to butcher, and we could raise a few at a time vs getting 25 (min order) and having to set up another pen, We do not have the room at all.
Has anyone done this? I need suggestions.
Thanks
Lenora