The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: macgro7 on April 01, 2019, 01:39:49 pm
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Hello
I cant decide which dual purpose breed to choose!
-Barbezieux - one of the best tasting chickens in the world. Very large. Essentially look like a massive black leghorn.
-Marans - I ate a black copper Marans cock. he had to go because he was very aggressive to humans - bruised my legs and made me bleed but he was delicious! Very good amount of meat on him as well.
-Dorking- a native breed. White meat (unlike very dark Barbezieux).
-Lincolnshire buff - in not far from Lincolnshire where most of them live. They care supposed to be quite fast growing but I don't think there is a lot of new blood to choose from.
Not sure which one (or two lol) to go for...
Hmmm
Any ideas? Suggestions?
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Out of those 4 I would choose dorking. Their meat is delicuous and they lay a decent amount of eggs too.
Why are you restricted to those 4 breeds? Have you thought about orpingtons or sussex or wyandotte or australorps are good dp birds. There are loads of dp breeds ;)
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I know there are lots of breeds but I like specific very rare ones mostly. I like speckled Sussex as well actually and Swedish flower chickens.
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have you considered the Norfolk Grey? I have two that have grown bigger than my RIR and their eggs, now they're finally laying (slow to mature, 50 weeks for one of mine, while the other has laid 70 since the start of the year) have a significantly bigger yolk:albumen ratio than any other eggs I've ever seen. The SFH is not far short in numbers in this, her second year.
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That's an interesting one!
Haven't considered it before. I was thinking instead of Derbyshire Redcap