WestKnollAmy
The Crazy Chicken Lady
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Marans are my choice for meat and eggs. The meat is very good! You can read that on my website. They do need a high protein food like Game Bird starter (27%) so you are really not feeding them economically. I do add as much in other protein as I can once they get older. But they have gorgeous eggs, though small when they start laying, once they are a year old the eggs are a good size, large to extra large. If the roos stay here until 6 months old, we eat them. Took out one yesterday. I guarantee you we will know when we bite into that meat. It has flavor like none of the others!
My Orps never had had much meat on them but the BLRW Wyandotte we took out yesterday was very nice at 4 months old. We seldom do many Wyandottes. Ameraucanas are another bird that has a nice bit of meat on them. I have never eaten a Dom or Sussex. Had lots of Cochins, LF and bantam.
But when it comes to a meat with flavor, the Marans do it for me and DH. I can't say the Cuckoo is as tasty as the French Black and Blue Coppers though.
My Marans are molting now so not many eggs but they laid all last winter, even through the coldest times. They live in our M*A*S*H units so they are pretty open air and we move them to fresh ground every week. They aren't much at eating grass as they prefer lots of meaty foods like bugs.
Stay away from certain bloodlines like the ones bred for show. They breed for color and structure, not for food like eggs and meat. That is a whole different bird.
Gold Griffin Chicken Mom, you know me well!
Marans are my choice for meat and eggs. The meat is very good! You can read that on my website. They do need a high protein food like Game Bird starter (27%) so you are really not feeding them economically. I do add as much in other protein as I can once they get older. But they have gorgeous eggs, though small when they start laying, once they are a year old the eggs are a good size, large to extra large. If the roos stay here until 6 months old, we eat them. Took out one yesterday. I guarantee you we will know when we bite into that meat. It has flavor like none of the others!
My Orps never had had much meat on them but the BLRW Wyandotte we took out yesterday was very nice at 4 months old. We seldom do many Wyandottes. Ameraucanas are another bird that has a nice bit of meat on them. I have never eaten a Dom or Sussex. Had lots of Cochins, LF and bantam.
But when it comes to a meat with flavor, the Marans do it for me and DH. I can't say the Cuckoo is as tasty as the French Black and Blue Coppers though.
My Marans are molting now so not many eggs but they laid all last winter, even through the coldest times. They live in our M*A*S*H units so they are pretty open air and we move them to fresh ground every week. They aren't much at eating grass as they prefer lots of meaty foods like bugs.
Stay away from certain bloodlines like the ones bred for show. They breed for color and structure, not for food like eggs and meat. That is a whole different bird.
Gold Griffin Chicken Mom, you know me well!
