- Apr 19, 2011
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Hello, I am new to meat Chickens. I have some Ida reds I keep for eggs and this year I bought 6 duel purpose birds 3 barred rock the other 3 I forget. I also bought 25 Cornish cross at the lady who sold them to me recomendation. I have been impressed with how much faster the Cornish cross have grown but they also eat way more food and I don't free range them. I bought a couple incubators and want to start a flock for meat but my research has shown me that I can't collect eggs from Cornish cross because they die before they reach the age of laying eggs due to health problems caused by massive weight gain. I have also read story's of them dyeing of heat exhaustion rather than walking over to the watterer and I don't think they are the right bird for me anyway. My question is what would you recommended for a good meat breed that I can incubate eggs from? Im sure there is a thread like this somewhere but on my phone I only went back a couple pages so sorry if it has been asked before, also sorry for spelling and stupid autocorrects that I might not catch also due to typeing this on my phone.