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Ken, "Great" references aren't anecdotal, that's why they're considered to be a reference as opposed to just a good story or even a good story with pictures. Anyone can say this is my bird, of X breed, dressed out at so and so many weeks and weighed X pounds, but unfortunately, it's the nature of the media that whether deliberate or not, it's (to put it nicely) conducive to a bit of exaggeration. There are so many variables involved from hatching to cooking that without direct, side by side comparison of different breeds raised in identical circumstances all you have are pictures of dead birds. On one of the breed threads I follow, someone posted a picture of their plump, juicy looking cockerels roasting on a spit. Those birds looked considerably better than the one you posted, which might at first blush cause one to wonder "Wow. What am I doing wrong that my birds don't look like that?" Fortunately, the poster also mentioned the weights on other birds from that flock, which were at least a pound and a half too heavy even for a mature male of that breed. So now, instead of wondering what you're doing wrong, you're just left speculating; are they really purebred X, or perhaps crossbreed? Maybe they were older, or the others aren't quite as large as the poster thought? The point is, while questions like that are kinda, sorta interesting, there's no way that's going to be "useful' to anyone. Basically, all you end up with is "My dead bird pictures are better than YOUR dead bird pictures".
