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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Imafluffybunny on August 30, 2015, 12:03:25 am

Title: Meat birds you can breed yourself
Post by: Imafluffybunny on August 30, 2015, 12:03:25 am

As above, I am looking for a meat bird I can breed myself rather than buying in eggs, what would people suggest? Happy to still incubate but getting sick of eggs being damaged in the post.

Title: Re: Meat birds you can breed yourself
Post by: Castle Farm on August 30, 2015, 08:29:23 am

Bit late for eggs this year. Birds hatched within the next month will struggle to make as good as April hatched.
Where are you based ?

Title: Re: Meat birds you can breed yourself
Post by: Buffy the eggs layer on August 30, 2015, 09:34:29 am

I used to breed large fowl croad langshans which are a traditional dual purpose, large friendly and lay well*
even through winter. Breed and brood well too. I only breed the bantams now or I would send you some eggs.




*for a rare dual purpose breed.

Title: Re: Meat birds you can breed yourself
Post by: LouiseG on August 30, 2015, 05:28:05 pm

We've got a friend with a few Ixworth chickens that are meat and fair layers so every so often I swap half a dozen of our ordinary eggs with half a dozen of them, hatch them and then raise for meat, they are good. you could keep a few hens and a cockerel for the eggs  :chook: :chook:  and do your bit for a rare breed at the same time.