Sustaining Meat Bird Flock?

[HeartLunger]

Is it possible to get a few meat bird hens and a rooster and have a self sustaining flock? I keep telling myself that it is, but then I hear stories about meat chickens getting so big they collapse under their own weight...goofy I'm sure.

Anyhow, are there any specific breeds to do this with?

Thanks!

 

[dacjohns]

Not with the Cornish X.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Try Regular Standard cornish birds like Dark Cornish, or White Laced Red cornish, Ideal even has buff. They make awesome meat birds and they lead a normal life and lay well. They are a heavy breed which are heavily fleshed and muscled. I have two hens in my broiler breeding project with a cuckoo Maran roo. They wont grow AS FAST as the Cornish X hybrids but they are sustainable birds and they do not eat near as much.