[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Well What do we call you now then mate   

Yeh I had a full size LS which made about 12lb but it took about a year.

Ryan

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Nice weights that mate
And pretty consistant with each other
Good job

[Dave C]

Thanks mate

Looking forward to seeing if they breed true 

[Dave C]

Here we go again, This is the next batch

I have Farm Rangers and a few Indian game in there.
They are 5 weeks old and about ready for a larger pen.
Will b weighing them next week.

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Looking well

I'm going to be doing a couple of my other cockerels this weekend

I don't really want to hang them as I feel it's too warm

Would it be ok to pluck and draw it then let it rest in fridge for a few days in a freezer bag?

[Dave C]

Yeah totally fine 
It works on a bigger the bird the longer you hang them basis, so light birds don't really need it anyway.

For lighter birds I normally skin them and take the breasts and legs, takes about 2 mins a bird.
Only downside is you don't get the nice crispy skin 

I find bigger birds much easier to draw, big hands small birds are a bit of a pain.

How are your LS and IG X LS starting to feel I know there putting weight on nicely but are they feeling meaty ?

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Ye to be fair the probably have a bit more than my 20 week olds ha
Although as its first time not really sure how it should feel

[Dave C]

With my IG and hybrids you can always feel the meat on the breast, wide and full.
Traditional breeds and crosses are not as obvious but you don't want to be feeling to much breast bone if you know what I mean.

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

ye i get what you mean


i will give it a blast although i may leave them another week or so to fill out some more

[Dave C]

That can be the trouble with the lighter breeds, you feed & feed them and they don't get any fatter 

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

i think i will look into getting some faster growers, next year as well as breeding the light sussex
might look at your sassos
have you eaten one yet?
hows the flavour

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

i have also bought 2 bookks from amazon

one of fred hams "old poultry breeds" 1p +P&P

and another off different author

"british poultry breeds" helps you to select your breeding stock

less than £10 for both

suppose the problem always start sourcing the right stock

[macgro7]

Have you thought of joining a breed society?
If you join the dorking club you can access details of all the society members, I. E. All dorking breeders. Membership is £7 per year.
I assume the same with other breed societies.

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Ye but on top of the rare breed society and the PCGB the money soon adds up ha
I may join something like light Sussex one but I only want it for utility and not shows

[Dave C]

i think i will look into getting some faster growers, next year as well as breeding the light sussex
might look at your sassos
have you eaten one yet?
hows the flavour

Not yet gona defrost one for Sunday dinner I like to leave it a few days to get it out of my head if you know what I mean, I enjoy them better.

I'm hoping these Sasso Gallic breed fairly true and I will have some good crosses next year with Sasso Gallic X Farm Ranger as well as IG crossed with both of them and pure IG which I will be trying to improve maturity on.

Any of my creations I always like to share with likeminded folk incase of any accidents, so if you want any