Crossing your own meat breed

[Shellz]

They sound awesome, Tammy!

 

[kizanne]

I had some broilers from the summer that I let get old enough to start laying.

I currently have a black broiler roo, 2 red broiler hens and an australorpe in one pen.

I get 3-4 eggs a day from those 4 hens. They are large eggs. They are currently laying very consistently.
Their offspring is getting 5-7 pounds in 9-14 weeks.


The offspring I believe are consistent good growers. I had some wyandotte roos in there that first batch and the only smaller ones had some lacing making me believe they had a different father.

I shipped another batch to someone who said they did great and ordered another batch. I am hatching some 'pure' boilers now so I'll know more in a little bit.

But if I was just looking to get some eggs with possible meat. I think I'd get broilers and breed. You wouldn't end up with 'a breed' they are all hybrids but I don't think you'll end up with small chickens. I've been very impressed by the egg laying as they are really laying consistently. I thought that they wouldn't lay enough eggs to keep them around.

 

[kfacres]

I had some broilers from the summer that I let get old enough to start laying.

I currently have a black broiler roo, 2 red broiler hens and an australorpe in one pen.

I get 3-4 eggs a day from those 4 hens. They are large eggs. They are currently laying very consistently.
Their offspring is getting 5-7 pounds in 9-14 weeks.


The offspring I believe are consistent good growers. I had some wyandotte roos in there that first batch and the only smaller ones had some lacing making me believe they had a different father.

I shipped another batch to someone who said they did great and ordered another batch. I am hatching some 'pure' boilers now so I'll know more in a little bit.

But if I was just looking to get some eggs with possible meat. I think I'd get broilers and breed. You wouldn't end up with 'a breed' they are all hybrids but I don't think you'll end up with small chickens. I've been very impressed by the egg laying as they are really laying consistently. I thought that they wouldn't lay enough eggs to keep them around.

are the colored broilers, not already only half breed broilers? Are they not CX bred to a DP Bird, in theory?

Would the breeding of them back to a DP type bird, not create a 3/4 DP type bird?

 

[skookumchuck]

What DP bird are the colored boilers crossed to? I was thinking of trying to get a meatier egg layer. I free range so feed cnversion to eggs is not as crittical if I was keeping them confined. 3-4 eggs a week per hen is fine with me if I can also get a semi fast growing broiler. I am going to have to get a few of these this spring to experiment with. The best thing with Chicken experiments that they all taste like Chicken....

 

[kfacres]

What DP bird are the colored boilers crossed to? I was thinking of trying to get a meatier egg layer. I free range so feed cnversion to eggs is not as crittical if I was keeping them confined. 3-4 eggs a week per hen is fine with me if I can also get a semi fast growing broiler. I am going to have to get a few of these this spring to experiment with. The best thing with Chicken experiments that they all taste like Chicken....

Honestly, Prob anything.with quality.

I would think that a good jersey giant, rock, orpington, wyandotte, cornish, RIR, deleware, buckeye- heck anything of quality and size from a good line-- would cross onto them and turn out quite well. All it takes is some consistant, quality genetics on both sides- and a shot of hybrid vigor in the middle. The double breasted Cornish doesn't hurt either!

Last summer, i had a pair of SQ Black Ameraucanas here- ended up losing the male- and turned the hen in with the good BLR Cornish (bear in mind he's about muscled half way of the good Cornish- but plenty larger statured)-- and the offspring that resulted from that are tremendous carcass birds that flat out smoked the standard Farm King roosters, the straight Amer, and the Cornish/ Silkie roosters-- and bear in mind that even my SQ Amer-- weren't much different than a Leghorn body style, or muscle wise. Now, comparing the half breed cockerels to my straight Cornish- there was on a comparision like men v/s boys---- but the crosses were quite a bit fatter.

Read my BYC page, I have an idea that was started last year with the Amer-- but since I lost them-- it will have to be started again this year from scratch.

my best guess:: blacks are black jersey giant. reds are new hampshire, and slow growing whites are white rocks...

 

[R2elk]

My attempt is crossing a white-laced red cornish rooster on light brahma hens. It turns out that I may also have some eggs from a light brahma rooster on one of the cornish hens. Eggs are in the incubator and due March 3rd. I really like the frame on the brahmas and think that the cornish will add more meat to that big frame.

 

[Tammy N]

My attempt is crossing a white-laced red cornish rooster on light brahma hens. It turns out that I may also have some eggs from a light brahma rooster on one of the cornish hens. Eggs are in the incubator and due March 3rd. I really like the frame on the brahmas and think that the cornish will add more meat to that big frame.

Post photos mine stared out as a rooster that was too good for the pot, so i put him in with my egg hens thinking ifd let go my other breeds except my brahmas bu i found my self crying when Pippy came and sat by me i cant they are family but their babies i will put in my head they are food and still love them but NO names

 

[R2elk]

Post photos mine stared out as a rooster that was too good for the pot, so i put him in with my egg hens thinking ifd let go my other breeds except my brahmas bu i found my self crying when Pippy came and sat by me i cant they are family but their babies i will put in my head they are food and still love them but NO names

Sorry Tammy, it will be quite some time before I have the privileges built up to be able to post images.

 

[kfacres]

My attempt is crossing a white-laced red cornish rooster on light brahma hens. It turns out that I may also have some eggs from a light brahma rooster on one of the cornish hens. Eggs are in the incubator and due March 3rd. I really like the frame on the brahmas and think that the cornish will add more meat to that big frame.

Not likely...

I have some Brahma x Cornish crosses-- in various percentages.

They might have more meat than average-- but they are dang slow growing. Cornish, atleast non- hatchery ones- are super slow growing- even slower than the brahma...

Course, if you have hatchery birds, that;s a whole different story.

 

[R2elk]

Not likely...

I have some Brahma x Cornish crosses-- in various percentages.

They might have more meat than average-- but they are dang slow growing. Cornish, atleast non- hatchery ones- are super slow growing- even slower than the brahma...

Course, if you have hatchery birds, that;s a whole different story.

I have to agree that the Cornish are slow growing but my brahmas did fine on their growth rate.

Yes all my stock are from hatchery birds. I was planning to cross the cornish/brahma crosses back with the cornish rooster.