[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

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[Dave C]

Very nice 
Looking forward to reading about your progress.

Is the any physical differences to a Cuckoo Marans (except for the egg colour) ?

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Not too sure
I would have to go through the Maran standard
But I guess the is some maran in them they also look like the le flech

[Dave C]

How many did you get ?

[Dave C]

Picked this guy up this morning when he got stuck in the barn.
Oh man he has some breast meat on him.

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

looks like hes had madonnas boob surgeon ha

[Dave C]

The good thing with these Slow growth broiler is they grow very quickly up to 14 weeks then don't really get much bigger.
Where as the medium growth would just keep getting bigger & bigger then have too much weight for there legs.

[macgro7]

The good thing with these Slow growth broiler is they grow very quickly up to 14 weeks then don't really get much bigger.
Where as the medium growth would just keep getting bigger & bigger then have too much weight for there legs.

Same with my ones. Now they seem to be growing their bones (height) more than muscle. Very heavy though. Outgrown "normal" egg laying hens some time ago

[Dave C]

What's everyone's meat bird plans for next season

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Coucou de Rennes

[Dave C]

Do you have a plan yet mate ?
How many you starting with, how many you ultimately want as a breeding group ?

Or are you breeding to take cocks & hens for the table or just the spare cock birds and use for duel purpose ?

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

Do you have a plan yet mate ?
How many you starting with, how many you ultimately want as a breeding group ?

Or are you breeding to take cocks & hens for the table or just the spare cock birds and use for duel purpose ?

I have a trio so my plan is to hatch some batches through the year and I will keep the daughters to go back with father I aim to replace all my layers with coucou de Rennes and may aim for around 20 females for eggs and keep surplus cockerels for the table
I will weigh again this year but may do that fortnightly rather than weekly or even monthly I will aim to breed to standard so those failing that will go to table also I feel this is a real chance to ge the breed going been really rare

[Bramham Wiltshire Horns]

IGxLS pullets these are real chunky birds in all fairness

[Dave C]

Do you have a plan yet mate ?
How many you starting with, how many you ultimately want as a breeding group ?

Or are you breeding to take cocks & hens for the table or just the spare cock birds and use for duel purpose ?

I have a trio so my plan is to hatch some batches through the year and I will keep the daughters to go back with father I aim to replace all my layers with coucou de Rennes and may aim for around 20 females for eggs and keep surplus cockerels for the table
I will weigh again this year but may do that fortnightly rather than weekly or even monthly I will aim to breed to standard so those failing that will go to table also I feel this is a real chance to ge the breed going been really rare

Sounds like a good plan 
Fingers crossed for good fertility and a good breeding season.

I weigh my hybrids regularly to see how they compare with earlier batches and to try to gauge when the best time to process is.
But with my pure IG I only really weigh at 16 weeks because that's the age I'm aiming towards to process, the blue cockerel I kept back was 2.87kg at 16 weeks so I'm getting there.
My last batch is 12 weeks now and I don't know there weight but I expect there will be slightly lighter than the summer birds due to the long night time hours but will see.

[Dave C]

IGxLS pullets these are real chunky birds in all fairness

They look nice birds 

I would put a quality pure IG back over then if I were you.

If it's something you fancy doing I might be able to sort you out with one.