Do most chicken breeds have a gamey taste?

[mandelyn]

We saw a lot of variation in the offspring of the Bresse, some with meat and others not so much, different shapes. So we're pursuing a certain body type with them in the subsequent generations. Can't beat their texture and flavor and the thin skin with how the fat melts... so good.

Depending on breed is how we cook chicken, Marans or Bresse are baked or fried, the others are baked breast/crock pot legs/thighs. The dark meat I like best pulled with BBQ sauce, great sandwiches!

 

[Chickenheadmate]

Which breeds are good for stew?
And mostly white meat?
I want to take an educated guess on what breed to eat

We saw a lot of variation in the offspring of the Bresse, some with meat and others not so much, different shapes. So we're pursuing a certain body type with them in the subsequent generations. Can't beat their texture and flavor and the thin skin with how the fat melts... so good.

Depending on breed is how we cook chicken, Marans or Bresse are baked or fried, the others are baked breast/crock pot legs/thighs. The dark meat I like best pulled with BBQ sauce, great sandwiches!

 

[Chickenheadmate]

Was thinking about breeding the rock with a mostly whitr meat bird.
Goal will be to butcher as you g as possinle to it doesn't have the gamey taste

We saw a lot of variation in the offspring of the Bresse, some with meat and others not so much, different shapes. So we're pursuing a certain body type with them in the subsequent generations. Can't beat their texture and flavor and the thin skin with how the fat melts... so good.

Depending on breed is how we cook chicken, Marans or Bresse are baked or fried, the others are baked breast/crock pot legs/thighs. The dark meat I like best pulled with BBQ sauce, great sandwiches!

 

[mandelyn]

For stew it doesn't much matter, the flavor changes/dissipates with the longer cook time and other ingredients. Stew will cook the "game" out. It's when the chicken is "stand alone" that the flavor comes out.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I haven’t tasted a home grown chicken yet (hope to change that soon) but I’m sure a better choice would be to call the taste a natural one.

 

[GotCoop]

We raised Freedom Rangers, their taste was not gamey. They were raised on pasture in mobile pen. My wife won't do "wild meats". The rangers grew plump and were very tender, without the drawbacks of the Cornish cross. Other heritage breed roos I butchered had dark meat with more flavor (gamey?).

 

[Chickenheadmate]

At what age were they harvested?

We raised Freedom Rangers, their taste was not gamey. They were raised on pasture in mobile pen. My wife won't do "wild meats". The rangers grew plump and were very tender, without the drawbacks of the Cornish cross. Other heritage breed roos I butchered had dark meat with more flavor (gamey?).

 

[GotCoop]

They are advertised at 5-6 pounds at 9-11 weeks. But we had some much bigger. They have a good food consumption ratio..and can actual get too big if left too long and fed to butcher. There are several of these "free range broilers" available, I believe "Freedom Ranger" is a trade name.

Economically, Cornish cross are always the best. But, rangers are the intermediate between Cornish cross and other heritage breeds.

 

[Amer]

Never noticed it on Buckeyes. They taste... well.... like chicken.
Ours is usually rested in salt though.
It doesn't help that I prefer the breasts, but the legs taste the same.

 

[Mosey2003]

Which breeds are good for stew?
And mostly white meat?
I want to take an educated guess on what breed to eat

You really are after either a Cornish X or another slow broiler. Nothing else is going to give you the same amount of white meat and lack of gamey taste.