Favorite Breed For Flavor?

[FlipFlopFarmer]

What breed of standard chicken does everyone think make the most flavorful bird?

 

[mstricer]

Marans

 

[FlipFlopFarmer]

Thats what I keep hearing. I want to get some marans to put with my EE's and get different shades/colors of eggs, and was looking to start caponizing, as I have jersey giants as well, so that would be splendid, the maran could serve multiple purposes. How is their behavior?

 

[mstricer]

The boys you have to be picky with, at least thats my opinion, some crow a lot and some just have bad boy behavior. I have a Splash Marans roo that is well behaved and watches over the girls nicely. I hatched a nice Black Cooper roo and so far he's been great also. I'm selling 2 BCM's though due to bad boy behavior also a Wellie roo didn't know I had him wanted a girl. The Marans have a darker meat even the breast is a little darker but good flavor. Faverolles taste good also.

 

[FlipFlopFarmer]

the news about marans gets more and more appealing, i love dark meat, much better than white meat. i plan on starting to caponize all cull roos prior to freezer camp, so that will hopefully ommit the aggressive behavior, and i will only keep a calm settled roo with my hens, i had heard that they could be flighty, somewhat combative, and hell when broody, but thats okay, i dont take flack from anything, especially not a food source.