TALL well muscled roo . . .

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I have a breeding project going similar to Brunty's (didn't want to hijack his thread), and would like some input from the other cyber chicken farmers out there.
Brunty is using a Buckeye roo over his CX girls, I have a BCM over mine. I think its time to retire my BCM and would like to shoot for one more gene pool out of my girls before they are worn out. Suggestions?
the roo has to be tall & well muscled (but not to heavy). Long legs seem to be avantageous, allowing him to breed these fat girls without totally collapsing them.
I love the Buckeye breed but don't really want to use one of those, any other ideas?

 

[Attack Chicken]

Maybe a langshan? (pardon my spelling lol)

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

Do you have them? are they well muscled?

 

[Brunty_Farms]

I'm in the same boat. But I do not have readily available roosters that can breed so I'm going to pray that the Buckeye roo is getting the job done.

I would say a New Hampshire, the one I have is very tall but very slow at filling out. I will get a pic of him to show you.

 

[TimG]

Another option would be Delaware. I don't know that they are unusually tall, but the roosters I have had were certainly not close to the ground. There's a lot of New Hampshire in Delawares, so this seems consistent with Jeff's suggestion.

There are good and bad lines of Delawares and New Hampshires out there. (Actually, if you know about a line of New Hampshires with good meat qualities, please let me know.) I'd be hesitant to introduce a rooster like the one Jeff describes (slow at filling out) because a big part of the objective should be producing a bird with good early growth and I'd be concerned that introducing a rooster that was slow to fill out would set me back quite a bit in this department.

Tim

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

Great suggestions, someone else just suggested Delewares to me as well. I'll have to look into them. My goal is to slow down their growth a bit . . . just not to much

A breeder near me say she has some really big Delewares so I'm going to go check them out tomorrow. I too was hoping for a little bit of that red coloring but so far just white chicks.

 

[petrelline]

I will once again advocate for my boring but steady Rocks. Good-quality Rocks have nice long legs and are quite well-muscled.

Also I seem to remember you had brahmas -- they definitely tall birds and big all around, but very slow to mature.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I do have a breeder near by with Orloff's! I was under the impression that they were a lighter breed, but I'm going out to look at them today.
I do have a great Brahma roo and am considering him, he is deffinately tall enough, but a bit light . . . maybe this is what I want. However I am using him in the other half of my breeding project already . . . I keep going back and forth on him, that's why I was looking for outside input - thanks again!
I've never had white rocks, but the Barred Rock roos I have had would be perfect except they are so darn heavy I 'm pretty sure the girls couldn't handle them. Plus that breed is already in them . . . which is a big part of why they are too heavy now (for my purposes not over all). . . . that said my mind keeps going back to them as well.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

The Orloffs are out of the running, not what I was looing for at all.

 

[SteveH]

Not meaty , but a Malay or Asil would be tall , muscular , and their weight would not be too heavy for those hens ; the gamefowl crosses served the Cornish breed well in their beginning .