Meat Birds

[Guest Navek]

Anyone recommend good meat birds . Not after anything expensive as the birds won't be for sale just home use

[HedgeCrawler 224]

Try Cob or hubbards they grown well and produce a nice sized bird for meat alternatively try light Sussex if you want a more traditional bird,takes longer to mature though..Chicks or hatching eggs can be bought cheaply enough.

[forest of dean redneck 11,752]

There was place in Somerset ,smart chicks? They had sassos which supposed to be good ,didn't go off their legs like others are prone to .

Though I just checked looks like smart chicks not trading any more.?

[Guest Navek]

Cheers will hav look at them

[Plucky1 1,119]

Navek, check out "Cyril Bason's" website, they supply growers or cobs from whatever age you want nationwide, I 've ran them on in batches for eating myself, may suit you,WM

[Guest Navek]

Will check It out now cheer wm

[Treehands 1,417]

Tried cobs a couple of times but grow too fast for my table.

Settled for hubbards in the end , slower growing and more

.suited to out door living imo.

[stevo79 569]

I've tried all them sasos, cobs bloody horrible things to keep. Bough 100 sasos to rear for xmas market they weren't fun to rear at all imo. They couldn't stand up and just eat eat eat. No my cupa tea. If I was rearing just for my self I'd put an Indian game cock over a Wyandotte or s Sussex and rear the chick for the table. Takes a bit longer to reach killing weight but much more enjoyable than them commercial meat birds.

Edited April 4, 2016 by stevo79

[cocker 2,655]

iv got 1000s of good fat cobb broilers for sale cheap

[Rabid 1,936]

Cobbs or hubbards, I have 50 at the mo, I get them about every 5 months or so, dirt cheap, and they are very entertaining when free ranged, s and t poultry, excellent birds and service from Steve and tina

[gamerooster 1,179]

Inbox me cocker, interested mate

[Guest Navek]

Well been up the allotment today cleaned it all up and emptied everything off it so it's now just roughly 100 foot by 50 foot so good bit off room keep acouple of hens on .going section it off and have pen of meat birds and a pen for laying and a pen for breeding and most important thing a little caravan for when the Dragon kicks me out lol going stick acouple raised beds in aswell so the kids can grow some strawberrys,carrots ,turnips ect ect ... As for the meat birds I'm going try some Indian game cross

[Rabid 1,936]

Well been up the allotment today cleaned it all up and emptied everything off it so it's now just roughly 100 foot by 50 foot so good bit off room keep acouple of hens on .going section it off and have pen of meat birds and a pen for laying and a pen for breeding and most important thing a little caravan for when the Dragon kicks me out lol going stick acouple raised beds in aswell so the kids can grow some strawberrys,carrots ,turnips ect ect ... As for the meat birds I'm going try some Indian game cross

I let my meat birds run free range with the chickens, the older they get, the less they wander from home.

[forest of dean redneck 11,752]

Well been up the allotment today cleaned it all up and emptied everything off it so it's now just roughly 100 foot by 50 foot so good bit off room keep acouple of hens on .going section it off and have pen of meat birds and a pen for laying and a pen for breeding and most important thing a little caravan for when the Dragon kicks me out lol going stick acouple raised beds in aswell so the kids can grow some strawberrys,carrots ,turnips ect ect ... As for the meat birds I'm going try some Indian game cross

I got some barnevelder hens would love to run a Indian game cockerel with them,but I live in middle of a housing estate,don't think neighbours would love it,the hens make enough noise.