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[greyfields]

I should offer to sell you mine for a bazillion dollars then.

See you Friday for chicken!

 

[chcknrs]

Hmph! I can be patient! Well, uh, how many bazillion?

just so ya know, I am butchering 2 roo's this weekend, but buying yours too! (We promised GS that we would wait until he gets back in August to eat his.)

 

[SamG347]

Grey I always love your meat-bird posts! And looks like your breeding is going well! The golden ranger and the grey one look the best to me. Keep it up!

 

[jenjscott]

FREEDOM RANGER IS CLOSED!?

 

[greyfields]

Yes. Barbara Aaron posted here recently about what happened. Search the first couple pages.

The exact same birds are available through JM Hatchery. He currently has the Red Bro's (equivelant to the Bronze Ranger) for sale and will be adding Red, Golden and Tricolor imminently.

 

[L&Schickens]

You are an inspiration to all of us "Wannabe" chicken ranchers. Thanks so much for sharing!!

 

[ninjapoodles]

Did the results of the taste test ever get posted?

 

[walkswithdog]

Pah, my next batch of fencing is on backorder too! Well, I'd rather wait for Premier than deal with someone else. Though I did cheat and bought a cheaper plug in charger in the interim. Can't wait for more fence. If half the eggs I have coming hatch I've GOT to get more fence up.

Thanks for the updates. I cannot wait to see how wt.s and the taste test go.

And yeah, oddly, a cornishx from a hatchery looks nothing like a normal cornish cross. That's one complicated long term hybrid they've developed.

 

[greyfields]

As far as results go, they dressed around 3.0 lbs each, which was 0.5-1.5 lbs less than the Colored Range Broilers I had in the same batch.

We've eaten them all, so I can't really post results, except they were tasty. We even ate the feet.

 

[Swamp Roo]

Hi Greyfields,
Please bare with me, while I understand the concept of basic genetics, I just haven't used it much since college, so there may be a major flaw in my thinking. The freedom rangers(FR) are hybrid birds Right? Are growth traits double dominant (XX) or single dominant (Xx) in the FR? In other words will the faster growth breed true even though the FRs are hybrids? I realize that growth may not be linked to just one gene(XXYY, XxYy etc.) so it is likely to be a lot more complicated than the above. Are you planing on breeding the cornish X rangers back to cornish stock(or something else) to see if you can have a semi self perpetuating flock? Also was the hen or the roo the FR? Be better if it was the roo I suppose, that way you would only have to replace one chicken from the hatchery every now and again. Thanks

Swamp