Farming and Homesteading Heritage Poultry

[Lacy Blues]

Your brown leghorn should serve well as a supplier of eggs and would be active foragers but as far as dual purpose, those generally have a lot more meat on them.

 

[Arielle]

Your brown leghorn should serve well as a supplier of eggs and would be active foragers but as far as dual purpose, those generally have a lot more meat on them.

I was thinking brown legorn, too. lol

 

[Lacy Blues]

I was thinking brown legorn, too. lol

Your brown leghorn should serve well as a supplier of eggs and would be active foragers but as far as dual purpose, those generally have a lot more meat on them.

I think I wasn't very clear... a dual purpose bird will have a lot more meat on them than a leghorn, whatever the color. Like my Andalusians, it takes a couple of them to make a meal... or one for soup.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

And it has been said that “few are the people who are ready to raise 200 birds and cull down to 15”. This is exactly how to improve a breed especially when utility is the goal! [...]. FOCUS.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

I think I wasn't very clear... a dual purpose bird will have a lot more meat on them than a leghorn, whatever the color. Like my Andalusians, it takes a couple of them to make a meal... or one for soup.

I don't know; we'll split an Ancona spatchcock and, with veggies etc..., that makes a nice meal.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

I was thinking brown legorn, too. lol

Arielle, have you got a hold of some nice Brown Leghorns? SC or RC?

 

[Arielle]

Quote: No, I"ll not be going the leghorn route. Don Schrider has them, and a "protoge" of his has them who lives near me.

I think I am keeping my EE/AMeraucanas as my layers for the blue eggs; and a few olives for the fun of it, too. I have a pretty good number of egg customers that I need to continue to provide for as they pay ( some of )the feed bill.

I figure any meat type bird will lay more than enough eggs as well ( dual purpose) so I"m leaning to the buckeyes at this point. I'm a little worried that the Rhodes ine will disappear as he cut back his flock a few years ago and he is getting up there in age.

 

[chickadoodles]

I am new on this board. I am raising some BA's for dual purpose. I also have 4 JG's for meat birds. I also have some EE's for eggs and one brown leghorn hen. So far the BA's are the oldest and look like when the roosters go in the freezer they will make a good supper! I can't wait till my JG are grown so I can see the size of them!

 

[Lacy Blues]

I don't know; we'll split an Ancona spatchcock and, with veggies etc..., that makes a nice meal.

My husband is the biggest meat eater I've ever known. My kids are heavy meat eaters too. Me though, I think one of my birds has plenty of meat on it, even for a family of four but them? Ha!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I'm a big meat eater too!! I live low carb and chicken is low carb.

Love the homegrown 6 month olds the best-- cornish x is now very weird.