Slow growing CX/FR or fast growing heritage meat bird breeds.

[JB8907]

Hello

I am looking for a bird that will do well in tractors for personal use For family and friends and can be easily bought from hatchery or bred on site for a heritage breed. No GMO birds please. Can be a hybrid of heritage breeds.

Thanks

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Here's a list of heritage breeds and their meat characteristics.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf

 

[sylviethecochin]

I was not aware that a GMO breed of chickens exists.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That confused me too.

 

[JB8907]

I was not aware that a GMO breed of chickens exists.

I was searching on a hatchery site the other day and you could order non-GMO or GMO chicks. It was an actual selection.

 

[Amatsuhono]

This may have been on the website, but it doesn't actually exist. GMO is used to refer to things that have had their genes edited through laboratory intervention. Because the text book definition is so ubiquitous (something which has had its genes altered) it is sometimes used to refer to hybrids created through cross breeding, which even though it results in an organism distinctly different from the parents (genetically) it has not actually been genetically modified. Now if they are selling started chicks, they may be referring to what they were fed. But realistically they are just trying to justify a price mark up on some birds over others with a little bit of old fashioned fearmongering.

 

[RUNuts]

I'd like to see the website. Never seen it before. GMO usually refers to plants, but they are playing with animals. Not in the human food chain that I am aware of. With all the negative publicity on GMO, I can't imagine it being successful.

GMO feed, on the other hand, rules out corn and soybeans. Little more expensive using different grains. Be careful, some use peanuts and have allergies.

 

[JB8907]

I'd like to see the website. Never seen it before. GMO usually refers to plants, but they are playing with animals. Not in the human food chain that I am aware of. With all the negative publicity on GMO, I can't imagine it being successful.

GMO feed, on the other hand, rules out corn and soybeans. Little more expensive using different grains. Be careful, some use peanuts and have allergies.

Here is the website.

https://www.freedomrangerhatchery.com/details.asp?List=1&Product=1

 

[sylviethecochin]

Here is the website.

https://www.freedomrangerhatchery.com/details.asp?List=1&Product=1

If you click on the "more information" link, it tells you that the parents of those chicks were fed a non-GMO diet. None of the chickens themselves are GMO.

Personally, the only birds I intentionally raise for meat are ducks, so all I can say is good luck.

 

[JB8907]

If you click on the "more information" link, it tells you that the parents of those chicks were fed a non-GMO diet. None of the chickens themselves are GMO.

Personally, the only birds I intentionally raise for meat are ducks, so all I can say is good luck.

I've thought of doing ducks but I don't want to do water changes in a pool and don't have a pond.