Dressed Carcass Picture Chart

[nicalandia]

I believe is about time we should put together a chart with pictures and description(with details as to what breed or cross is, what age and feed) of dressed carcass in a single database chart.

 

[nicalandia]

Would be nice to have a database of pictures of different breeds at slaughter weight of breeds like Barred Rock, New Hampshire, Delawares, Jersey Giants, Dark Cornish and their crosses on free range and on grain to get better understanding of what to expect.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@Redhead Rae @Compost King @BantyChooks do you guys have any pictures you can contribute?

 

[Compost King]

I have pictures but all of mine are crosses and I have to guess which picture is which cross since I do not label them. I also can't remember the ages of when I dressed them.

 

[Compost King]

In the future I will be post them in here... I should be selecting a poor young cockerel for the food production ritual soon, I am out of meat.

 

[BantyChooks]

I don't usually take photographs, but I have a few. Data may be incomplete as meat was not their principal purpose.

Year old Dominique, layer pellets and free-range.

Runty 1 yr old Partridge Chantecler rooster, layer pellets and free-range.

Partridge Chantecler, layer pellets and free-range. 1 yr.

Silver Ameraucana cockerel. Layer pellets and free-range. I forget how old he was, perhaps 6 months?

Olive egger hen, 3 yrs. Layer pellets and free-range.

8-month-old Black Australorp cockerel. Layer pellets and free-range.

 

[Compost King]

Not a pretty picture... My first Skinning and the first time I had processed in about 5 years. My 3rd overall and the first 2 were disasters.

Ayam Cemani x Red Ranger cockerel (Black skin/meat is a sex link trait only females have in this cross) It was at 20 weeks. although he didn't put on much weight after week 18. I kept putting off butchering him because of previous disasters... I am fishing through my Red Ranger crossing thread to find more pictures. I did not weigh this guy because I had not bought a scale yet.

 

[nicalandia]

Wow, thanks for posting the pics, this should be a good thread to post them so people can reference them.

 

[Kris5902]

Here’s my Barnvelder cockerel at around 20 weeks dressed out at 3.8 lbs legs removed to fit in ziplock processed at home.

Compared to my Red Ranger meat birds at 11 weeks and 5.5 lbs, these we had done at a local plant so we can sell them.

Parent stock for my meat breeding program, though I lost by heaviest standard Barnvelder Rooster, this boys brother, and am going to try my back up. I’m also wanting to try bresse and dark Cornish

 

[nicalandia]

I’m also wanting to try bresse and dark Cornish

Thanks for the pictures, if you want dark shanks on your Bresse/DC cross use the Breese rooster over the Cornish hens and the pullets from the cross should have dark shanks, but for productivity and efficiency a DC rooster mated to Bresse hens is the best as they lay more.