Redbro Cou Nu meat birds

[Buster52]

Has anyone raised any Redbro Cou Nu for their meat birds? Do you know anything about them, especially where on can order them?

There is an Oklahoma producer that raises these, and I think this is the meat bird used by Nature's Harmony Farm.. I realize they are Naked Necks, but assume there must be something different about this particular line.

I'm interested in experiences and where one can purchase them.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

The carcass of those birds look extremely odd. Way different than any heritage type breed I'm used too. I've raised the meat type naked necks before, but they did not dress out anything like those.

Are you planning on using these to sell or just for yourself?

Also Natures Harmony, it looks like they just used the standard Naked Necks.... not the redbro ones that Hubbard developed. I would love to see the bills that are on Tims farm.... that guy has the best of the best.... either he has a ton of money and just looking to have fun with farming or he has a ton of bills piled up. Either one... I wish him luck it seems they are doing well.

Call up Hubbard, they get those types imported from france... they will be able to guide you into the right direction.

To me it seems you can build your own.... they have no size value from what I can see. It seems like if you breed a good Naked Neck rooster over a few New Hampshire Red hens you can have some good offspring to work with... here is the link I was talking about.

http://www.hubbardbreeders.com/product_leaflets/S757N.pdf

 

[Buster52]

Thanks for response, Jeff. So are you thinking these are just crosses, then? Like the Cornish X and Freedom Rangers?

And can you explain what you mean by "meat type naked necks"?

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Ya, many of the ones that you see are crosses. The ones that I know of, are the ones from Hubbard. They import their hatching eggs all the time from their HQ somewhere over in Europe. It looks to me that they breed a hen (heavy red broiler) over a heavy red Turken Male.

So if I was you... get yourself some red broilers or some of JM's birds... keep the females (maybe 4-5) and butcher the males. Try to locate a red Turken Male. Most of the hatcheries haver them and if you look hard someone on BYC may have some extras. Take the male red turken and breed them over the red JM hens... and there you go... you have a hybrid bird with heterosis and the necked neck gene.

If you wanted to, you can breed the hens from the F1 cross and breed them back to the Male Turken. This will give you kinda of a pure line, over time you can develop your own line. But, the biggest things with meat birds that I have found, that no matter what you choose, you want to do crosses. Either you cross two DP's or whatever... I've learned that they heterosis (hybrid vigor) is how the good results are made. If you look at any commercial cross.... either slow growing or the fast cornish x's... breeders have taken advantage of the benefits of the heterosis... and simply crossing two purebreds will result in the offspring growing better and laying more eggs as a result. From what I have seen, they always out preform their parents. I'm curious to see if this is the same with the cornish x's that I have but I doubt it, they may be the exception.

I don't think, that having a pure line is really important anyways... I think it's more about function over form.

 

[slc]

S & G Poultry has the meat type naked necks. From what I've read the reasoning is that the skin is very thin and the meat has a more delicate texture. Some prefer them because the thin skin crisps in the oven nicely and makes a better presentation. They require more care when butchering to prevent tearing the skin though.