Have any if you ever had your meat birds too fatty?
I have just put 5 month old birds in the freezer, Ixworth X white Dorking (though one or both may not be pure breeds as some birds are beige and a few have some black speckles).
Fed on chick crumb and then grower/finisher pellets. Very little corn, reasonable sized run moved onto new grass weekly but not free range.
Flavour's fine.
Very good sized legs, though I prefer breast meat so might just cross one of the female offspring with an Indian game cockerel.They grew very well, and the girls weighed around 1.5kg with the boys well over 2kg, but there's quite a bit of fat on them. Did I feed them wrong, is it due to the parent breeds, or could it be that supermarket chicken is too lean and creates the wrong expectation (similar to supermarket versus smallholder pork)?
What diet do you give your meat birds and how do they turn out?