The Buckeye Thread

[Pathfinders]

I do have to admit I think that also. Must be a country girl thing. Or I get lazy and don't type out the full name. Lol!

Or, I think of goats (being a former Alpine breeder.) They're even smellier!

 

[slfarms]

Or, I think of goats (being a former Alpine breeder.) They're even smellier! 

My aunt used to raise goats....the stench. Wait are we saying our bucks stink?!!!!!! Lol

 

[Pathfinders]

My aunt used to raise goats....the stench. Wait are we saying our bucks stink?!!!!!! Lol

Ohemgee. It gets in your sinuses and you smell it for weeks. Yet, you think you're all cleaned up, and you go somewhere like the grocery store, and people in line around you slowly inch away because you still smell like a buck, no matter how hard you try...

 

[slfarms]

Ohemgee. It gets in your sinuses and you smell it for weeks. Yet, you think you're all cleaned up, and you go somewhere like the grocery store, and people in line around you slowly inch away because you still smell like a buck, no matter how hard you try...

I do remember wishing my cousins would sit in the other part of the house at thanksgiving because of that stench.

 

[knittychickadee]

Right and size wise they would be nice, what would you say the growth rate to processing would be? I'm asking about the Australorps just because I already have them and I just have the Buckeye cockerels. The two Australorp boys I have are in the pen to be processed tonight.

I'm wondering about the growth rate of a dark cornish/ buckeye too. Cornish grow slower than the Buckeye, what are the weights at 16 wks of this cross? What's the advantage over a well bred Buckeye? Also you would be gaining darker pinfeathers/hairs with a darker bird.
Munchies about 10 yrs ago I had a flock of about 24 older Australorp hens processed for soup; they came back to me shrink wrapped and frozen. Picking little black pinfeathers every time I thawed one drove me nuts lol.

 

[Pathfinders]

I'm trying to remember who it was who told me they were doing Delaware x Buckeye crosses and getting sex-linked chicks. Was it someone on this thread? Wondering how that cross fared in terms of meat production too.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Anyone who thinks that true Cornish grow slower than Buckeyes has not raised both. I love the Buckeyes and the quality and quantity of meat, but NO pure breed beats Cornish on packing on the mass that I know of. If there are any, they are some of their Asian breed cousins. At about 5 months, my cockerels last year were in excess of 6-pounds where the Buckeye were about 4.5 or so. Crossing the two is an awesome pairing, even if you are using hatchery type Cornish, which I have. The girls are such chunks that you really have to hold onto them, and they lay like crazy too, or at least all mine do, and no baby eggs, they put out eggs just like the big girls from day one.

 

[knittychickadee]

Are you talking live weight or carcass weights?

 

[BuckeyeNut]

Here's just my thought this morning after following this thread for a while.
I am of the opinion that Joe's win achieves great things for the Buckeyes.!
And he and his family. Because if we are all honest that kind of dedication takes a family to make all of it work have achieved successes for a breed that many wish they could get to.
I think that if more chicken people on this site would recognize all that he has done to help educate and support the newbie and the know it alls. His announcement of wins would sound less like crowing "to some" and more of a man in search of the original breeders "Nettie" 's intent.
I say congrats !!! To him ,his Flock and his family! Can't wait to see these birds in person at ON! Last year I enjoyed the show very much but this year will be better I'm sure!
Have a great morning. I'm going back to my nest w coffee.

Campbell Orchard, I heartily agree with you.

Joe has been of inestimable help to me in learning the ropes with Buckeyes. If anything, his comments should have MORE weight than those who have not achieve the impressive number of wins that he has achieved.

Looking forward to seeing him at the ON next month as well.

 

[Minniechickmama]

You're funny. This is DRESSED weight.