Straub’s search for colored eggs

[Mwhit]

Awesome thread, I’ve just read through the past 10 pages or so. Really interested in your bresse and your plans for dual purpose birds.

I used to have a small flock of bresse but ended up selling/eating them due to aggressive behavior and going broody constantly. They were decent layers when they weren’t trying to hatch chicks though.

 

[WingItRanch]

Awesome thread, I’ve just read through the past 10 pages or so. Really interested in your bresse and your plans for dual purpose birds.

I used to have a small flock of bresse but ended up selling/eating them due to aggressive behavior and going broody constantly. They were decent layers when they weren’t trying to hatch chicks though.

American Bresse or did you go the traditional French route? How was the taste of them compared to other dual purpose breeds?

 

[Mwhit]

American Bresse or did you go the traditional French route? How was the taste of them compared to other dual purpose breeds?

They were American Bresse I bought off Craigslist. From Greenfire Farms stock. I didn’t finish them the French way, just with meatbird feed.

The meat was pretty comparable to other DP breeds. My favorite so far has been New Hampshire’s.

 

[Tstraub]

It was 60 degrees F yesterday and everything was a muddy mess. Today it’s 20F feels like -10F winds at 30 mph gusts over 40 mph. The trash bins blew into my wife’s car, flower pots blew across the road and both automatic chicken doors were frozen shut. At least it’s not muddy anymore I guess.

 

[Tstraub]

I got 2 eggs from the Bresse coop today. That’s the first time I have collected more than one and the same day. I know the one with the blue band is laying I’m not sure who else is laying. They both had to come today because it’s cold enough outside that if I missed one yesterday it surely would have froze and busted.