CityClucks
The Center of a 50 Mile Radius
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Poco, if you are looking for cockerels as City says, I have a couple of extras. One was hatched July 31 and the other looks like he is almost a year old. Big fella but a little too aggressive for my place. I can send one or both of them to POOPS with somebody if you are interested.
City I have decided against going the dual purpose rout. I will have lines for meat and a line for eggs, and while we may eat the eggs from the meat birds or the meat of the egg birds, those will not be their "purpose".
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But to answer your question, City, we haven't yet entirely decided on a particular egg or a particular meat bird. We will be experimenting this spring with Cornish, Freedom Rangers, Buckeyes, and Delaware for meat, and with Marans and productions Reds for eggs. Might play around with another dark egg layer like Wellsummers.
I envy you the space you have to experiment in that regard - sounds like fun to me!
(It is all fun, until someone doesn't tighten the lid on the water jar....I'm so sorry Donna - what a terrible thing to find, and heaven knows I've made enough of those kinds of mistakes - I hope your day gets better.)
Poco, if you are looking for cockerels as City says, I have a couple of extras. One was hatched July 31 and the other looks like he is almost a year old. Big fella but a little too aggressive for my place. I can send one or both of them to POOPS with somebody if you are interested.
City I have decided against going the dual purpose rout. I will have lines for meat and a line for eggs, and while we may eat the eggs from the meat birds or the meat of the egg birds, those will not be their "purpose".
ETA
But to answer your question, City, we haven't yet entirely decided on a particular egg or a particular meat bird. We will be experimenting this spring with Cornish, Freedom Rangers, Buckeyes, and Delaware for meat, and with Marans and productions Reds for eggs. Might play around with another dark egg layer like Wellsummers.
I envy you the space you have to experiment in that regard - sounds like fun to me!
(It is all fun, until someone doesn't tighten the lid on the water jar....I'm so sorry Donna - what a terrible thing to find, and heaven knows I've made enough of those kinds of mistakes - I hope your day gets better.)
