White Leghorns

[SKILLET]

Has anyone raised White leghorns to eat? If so, how was the quality and how much longer did it take to get them to butchering size? Is it worth is over ordering broilers?

Looking at Meyers 100 roosters are only .51/ea, seems to me the extra time and feed will still be cheaper than ordering broilers to start...

 

[KellyHM]

White leghorns stay so scrawny that you'll have a hard time getting any meat off of them, even if you raise them for a year.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

They are not very meaty birds, but still edible. Someone on here eats them...can't remember who...the only issue is size. Probably dress out at around 2.5 pounds per bird I'd imagine. I personally have no experience with them, just guesstimating

I'd probably try it once...maybe twice

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

I don't think they would be worth it for meat birds.

 

[beerman]

I am trying that now, I will let you know how it works out.

 

[SKILLET]

thanks for the responses...

beerman, let me know how they turn out...

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

you can eat anything, it depends on your taste and what you are hoping to get out of them.

 

[BirchHatchery]

i raise leghorn roosters by the 100s for meat i feed full access of broiler feed i butcher them at 20 weeks of age use them for Friers!!! cut em up for dumplims tacoes salads things like that. they are the cheapiest breed to raise rather for meat or for eggs i also free range when the weather good they make the best freiers i have ever eaten no fat good flavor. people eat quail people eat pheasent a leghorn roo has about much meat as a pheasent does farms around here raise pheasants buy the 1000s ive seen em cut up next to my leghorns their bigger so i dont see the issue when people say little meat on them so Economiccaly yes they make sense Economically yes i do make profit on them its the only chicken the bars in town use !!! any chicken can be eatin from a banty to pigions so yes their worth your time i get mine for 10 cents each (day olds total cost come 20 weeks of age around 4 dollars purdy cheap for 2 lbs of home grown meat. in the past thats the only chicken people used for Friers my grandfather supplied the bars in our small town with frog legs and leghorn cockerals and i am doin the same today. They may not have the meat of the cornish rock but the taste will be far supirior of one and alot less FAT!

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Wow. Very good points!