Meet my birds for meat experiment

[eldonrgv]

​Me too. This sounds like a very promising experiment for those of us who raise our own meat.

Got my scale and leg rings ready and there's peeping being heard in my sportsman cabinet incubator!!!

 

[Karen523]

Got my scale and leg rings ready and there's peeping being heard in my sportsman cabinet incubator!!!

 

[eldonrgv]

Long Story Short:

1.Left town last weekend.
2. House was burglarized.
3. Intruders left main gate open.
4. Stray dogs killed my birds in coop.
5. 8 birds survived out of 100+

Here are a couple of pictures of my 4 wk old and 3 wk old survivors.

I'm all excited of this cross. Check out their double breast feature in their chests!!! Its time to start again, got 24 eggs in my bator. Today is day 3.

 

[Maeschak]

Oh my goodness. I am so very very sorry.

 

[Molpet]

so sorry .. that rally sucks.. but your birds are beautiful and so meaty
Glad you are continuing

 

[eldonrgv]

Oh my goodness. I am so very very sorry.

so sorry .. that rally sucks.. but your birds are beautiful and so meaty
Glad you are continuing 

Thanks....just candled, got 18 left 3 infertile and 3 with thin crack. Day 3.

 

[MasAhora]

Subscribing to learn. Appreciate the updates and very sorry to read your house got robbed and you lost so many chickens. Good luck with the bator eggs

 

[Karen523]

Long Story Short:

1.Left town last weekend.
2. House was burglarized.
3. Intruders left main gate open.
4. Stray dogs killed my birds in coop.
5. 8 birds survived out of 100+

Here are a couple of pictures of my 4 wk old and 3 wk old survivors.







I'm all excited of this cross. Check out their double breast feature in their chests!!! Its time to start again, got 24 eggs in my bator. Today is day 3.

Can you tell us more about the double breasted feature? Does that mean they will have more breast meat? What is their average weight at 3 weeks? 4 Weeks?
Thanks

 

[cmohlin89]

I was curious about the double breasted feature as well. I've never butchered a non meat bird, so I'm wondering if double breasted birds equate to more meat or just a variation in appearance.

 

[eldonrgv]

Hello. The term double breast I got it from another member in one of my meat bird threads. I was referring my meat project birds as "meaty" and that I was crossing the Madisons with a Buff Orphington and my Dark Cornish with White Plymouth Rocks and then was gonna cross both offsprings, he told me that the Madisons had all the material genetics needed to cross with my Cornish to get a large carcass with the "double breast" of my Cornish in their offspring. The genetics of the madisons being large birds, good layers, plus fast growing. After that I removed the BO and left my 2 DC males with my flock. I noticed a week ago before my coop slaughter that there was a difference among my chicks in growth and that not all showed the double breast in their chests. I concluded that the ones without the chest line were of my BO and the others of my DC who has the big breast. The red chick in one of the picks is 4wk old and doesn't have the chest line he is of BO/Madisons and has buff leakage on its wings. The barred with white chest is WPR/Cornish the dark with golden brownish chest dark green feet is Madison/Cornish and the two 3wk olds are also Cornish/Madisons. This are just conclusions I came up with, that's why I brought my large DC male two big Madisons and one WPR home, its been over a month the BO left the flock so its now just Cornish males in my dads flock. I have 18 eggs on the bator and putting another 12 on Monday so I can compare and verify my theory. I have them free ranging right now but ill weigh them tonight once they're in the coop. Ill also take pics of the other chicks with the "double breast feature" term that I ended up using but don't know if it's a term really used but sounds "professional" among us hatcher but I guess "meaty" be better that way there's no confusion and have members think that I'm re-inventing the wheel by using "double breast".....