The Wyandotte Thread

[jermoatc]

IMO, if you're looking for specifically a meat bird, you'd be better off choosing something that grows a bit faster, I think... but if it's simply a side effect of having too many roos, they work out pretty good. 8)

but then again, my main breed are Dorkings, and nothing can compare to the texture and flavor, as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks very much. I just dont really care for the idea of the hybrid birds. Frankenbirds I call them. Any heritage breeds that you know of that grow faster that would make a good table bird and are cold hardy? I live in Colorado.

 

[Texasmja]

Ok. Great. Thanks. About when do they start crowing?

Mine start as early as 12 weeks as late as 20 weeks.

 

[delisha]

Any hen that is not laying, and birds that gives me attitude I feel tastes the very best.

I like Cornish, Orpington, and RIR. They average 5 lbs dressed and do well in Wisconsin weather. I have never eaten a Wyandotte so I could no comment on that.

 

[Gifa]

18.5 week old SLW Roo (Hatchery). Fed like a layer hen until it was obvious he wasn't going to be laying any eggs (8 wks)... then received higher protein food supplements. Only weighed 4lb after all the processing (first time I ever harvested my own chicken) was said and done.




He was delicious. Very lean. I seasoned only with salt and pepper for roasting. Husband described the roasted flavour of the dark meat similar to that of turkey, the white meat was flavourful and well-textured as well.

Remarkably different (in a good way) from farm sourced Cornish Crosses flavourwise, which were already remarkably different from store-bought Cornish Crosses Lean-wise.

 

[jermoatc]

Looks Yummy!!! Thanks for the photos.

 

[Texasmja]

This is a SLW butchered at 12 weeks, it weighed 4 pounds.

Here are some other roos butchered at 14-15 weeks



I think they taste best cooked in the crock pot, so so tender, the meat just falls off the bone.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

This is a SLW butchered at 12 weeks, it weighed 4 pounds.

Here are some other roos butchered at 14-15 weeks



I think they taste best cooked in the crock pot, so so tender, the meat just falls off the bone.

I think the same!!

 

[Texasmja]

I think the same!!

I am getting an electric grinder for Christmas! I am going to make ground chicken in 1 pound packs for the freezer.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

I know a lot of yall raise wyandottes as pets so I hope I dont offend anybody with this question but how do wyandotte roos work out as table birds? I love my SLW layers and im thinking about ordering straight run next time to get some roos for the freezer too.

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[DMRippy]

I will beg to differ i have both foley wyandottez and GSBR and they are NOT as big as the GSBR. The GSBR are huge mine is still young and he is easy 11lbs and growing. Hubby calls him a turkey and he says a BCM roo looks like a sharecropper next to the GSBR.

I would thing a wyandoote would be a dual pourpose bird and good eating.