meat

[SeanBlack]

what the best chickiens for meat

 

[Oregon Blues]

Ducks are good. I love roast goose. Guinea is supposed to taste like pheasant. Turkeys are pleasant to work with. You can grow quail and pheasant for meat.

What's best for you? I don't know. What does your family like to eat?

 

[wyoDreamer]

It depends on what you are looking for - a fast growing chicken with alot of meat, a sustainable flock to harvest from as needed, or something in between?

If you want a chicken to pack on alot of meat and grow really fast, you want a Cornish Cross, aka Cornish Rock. Those are the grocery store chickens that are raised for the commercial market. You can buy them as day olds and raise them for yourself. They do have health problems and need a certain amount of care.

There are also strains of broilers like the Black Broiler, the Red Broiler, the Freedom Ranger, the Red Ranger, and the list goes on. These birda take a little longer to get to butchering size, but they still grow fast and produce a nice chunk of meat.

Heritage breeds like the Delaware and the Cornish are a breed of chicken that were developed for their meat. They take longer to grow to butchering size and will not produce the great big breast meat of the Cornish Cross Chickens. But, you can hatch eggs from your flock to produce your own birds as you need them.

There are many heritage birds that are considered Dual-Purpose. Those flocks would have decent egg production and the birds would produce a meatier carcass than a chicken bread to be a fantastic egg layer.

And then as Oregan Blues pointed out, there are other alternative poultry besides chickens.

It really depends on what you are looking for and what will fit into your lifestyle and property.