Favorite Meat Bird besides Cornish X

[MKetter]

Besides Cornish Cross, what is your favorite meat bird, and at how many weeks do you butcher?

 

[Morrigan]

I like the ranger type meat birds -- sometimes called red rangers, freedoms rangers or even slow broilers. We generally butcher in the 10 to 14 week ranger depending on gender and how they are growing out. I prefer raising them to CX, as I like the extra flavor that slower growth imparts, and also enjoy seeing them have a more "normal" chicken life.

 

[MKetter]

I like the ranger type meat birds -- sometimes called red rangers, freedoms rangers or even slow broilers. We generally butcher in the 10 to 14 week ranger depending on gender and how they are growing out. I prefer raising them to CX, as I like the extra flavor that slower growth imparts, and also enjoy seeing them have a more "normal" chicken life.

I’ll be butchering a bird for the first time tomorrow. My brother bought two Wyandottes straight run, and got one male, one female. He lives in town and is able to have up to six chickens. Stu the Roo is number seven. He has to go.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-first-bird.1674827/