Which TASTES BETTER? Freedom Ranger OR Cornish Cross Meat Chickens...Just the FACTS!!
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2018
- It's time for the taste test between the Cornish Cross and Freedom Ranger meat chickens. Which one will be the winner?
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This is amazing. The nerd in me is fascinated. You guys are my absolute favorite homesteading channel. Thanks for this!!
Agreed!
Well, that settles it for me... Cornish Cross in the Spring, it will be!! Thanks guys!! 🐔
Would be fun to know if the CC hatcheries notice ordering increase next spring. That would be nerdy the nth degree :)
and for me too. I am like Kilven I was really hoping the Freedom Rangers would have won. I have just raised my 1st cornish cross and will be prosessing them this Saturday. Great work guys and I'm really loving your channel
There’s a reason all the big farms do Cornish Cross.. less feed more meat!
Thanks for the video!!
I think your unbiased experiment worked wonders and gave other homesteaders a great understanding of raising chickens. Now we know why the Cornish Cross is so popular... Facts show they are cheaper to raise and a tastier bird. Thanks Kevin, Sarah, Samantha, and Grace!!
You two did an awesome job on this comparison test!! I was truly surprised in the taste test but then the light bulb clicked on and realized that they both ate grain. Because all of my chickens are free range including the FR the meat just tastes different (better) and the egg yolks are almost red. Your feed ratio is what made me decide to phase out my FR’s and stick with my Brahma chicken’s for my fresh meat. When seeing your feed consumption I started paying closer attention and saw the FR are what doubled my feed bill. I know how much extra time and work went into this test and just can’t say how much I appreciate your attention to details (nerdy chicken math and all)! Thanks so much and have a very Merry Christmas and may you prosper greatly in 2019!!
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How long do your brahmas take to grow out?
Your daughters are so sweet! Well raised! What a beautiful family! Another interesting video. ❤
Thanks for doing the work for us!
You could try sprouting your feed grain. It really boosts the ratio and the end nutritional value of the bird you end up eating. I learned how to do this from Art and Bree's channel. It's very easily and it just a couple minutes a day.
We just processed our first batch of FR meat birds. We were very impressed with the flavor and juiciness of it. All of our customers have said the same. Our next batch coming in September will be CC. We’ll see which one we like better.
Those chicken pieces looked better than any chicken I have ever bought in the supermarket! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for doing this comparison. I have been holding out for the outcome to order meat chickens for the first time. Also thank you for everything else that you do to help everyone looking to start homesteading or just live a more sustainable life. My wife and I are working toward similar goals and your channel along with several others have really opened our eyes to somethings we had not thought about. Thank you for all that you do. God bless
Great Experiment. Thanks for doing all the hard work and nerdy math. I have to admit I was shocked. With so many other UA-cam channels switching over to the Freedom Rangers, I thought for sure they would win out.
Its about taste and practicality. Since FR were twice the cost, really no contest when flavor on CC was preferred.
This was so fun to watch. Thanks for doing this experiment it was very helpful!
Nice that you waited until you had time and space and didn’t have to rush any end testing. Thought it was further interesting, Sarah, that you said it was difficult to find the smaller Cornish Cross from your final batches.
Good point...it was one of the smaller she had to dig for..
@@smilebehappy6102 lol... so you watched this whole thing, than shit on them who'S giving you free content? Do you're own experiment, get you're own channel.... 3 subs GTFOH
Objective Viewer: Not really very objective are you then. The experiment was extremely fair throughout the whole process and the individual comparisons were done on same gender chickens. You surely can’t ignore the fact that each and every person who tasted the cooked chicken all preferred the same bird.
Thank you so much for this series. I know what it's like to raise chickens so I know how much more you guys have done to put this series together and present it to us. Blessings!!! :-)
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the videos fellow steaders, farmers and UA-camrs. We love watching and keeping up with you each day.
good day to you Kevin and Sarah !! thanks for sharing another awesome update and adventures on & off the homestead 👨🌾🎥👍✝
As with all experiments, it's important to repeat the experiment to see if the results are the same. Therefore, I'm glad to hear you will be doing this again next year. (Albeit, I was rooting for the Cornish Cross the whole time.) I'm looking forward to next year's grow. Thank you for sharing. Blessings.
Please forgive my language...But that was a bad ass experiment....I am so grateful for yall...That answered so many questions on how we are gonna do this for ourselves...Yall are a blessing....Love and Light
This was such a fun comparison overall. Thanks for the time you put into this and for the yummy results!
Thanks for all the time, work and thought put into this experiment. It definitely helped me
This was an awesome comparison. Thank you for taking us on this journey. I learned a lot. Love this channel and your family. God Bless you!!!
Kevin and Sarah.....thanks for the side by side comparison. I was not surprised at the end results. Josh from Stoney Ridge Farmer raised Freedom Ranger and Cornish Cross, and he had similar results in terms of growth rate, harvest size, and cost. Videos like this help so many people make better choices in terms of livestock in their efforts to get out of the grasp of corporate food production.
I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and look forward to more amazing videos in the coming New Year. God Bless!
Great series, thanks for all the work you put into it. Love your channel..
I think y’all did an excellent, accurate comparison and I really enjoyed this series. Thank you so much for taking the time and the effort to do this. Great job!! :)
What a fascinating and helpful experiment you've done. I myself have no use for this info, lol, but i thumbs up and watch because i love you and some day i might need to know this too.
May the season bring you Blessings beyond. xo
Great Great video! Thanks for all the work you did to give us the facts.
Awesome! You guys worked hard to get that series done and it was so informative! You all have a Merry Christmas!
Another fact filled great video. You guys are awesome. Merry Christmas
One question still to answer - How does Grace chew, smile and look pretty all at the same time? Samantha and Kevin were concentrating on eating for sure!
Love your study and for all the great information you give us !!
Love your vids!! Between your channel and Roots And Refuge...I learn so much, laugh, and just feel good watching!! Thank you for sharing your lives and knowledge! Watching this early Christmas morning....
A very Merry Christmas to your family!💕
I am SO excited for spring! You seriously have inspired me to raise Cornish cross. I even got me a plucker! This has been such great information! Thank you SO much!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to document the entire journey and detailing everything out. We were on the fence about which breed to try this year but your series has really helped make the decision.
I absolutely love how thorough you guys were in every aspect! This helps a lot while we are deciding on broilers! Thank you!!
Thanks for the results it gives us a better idea of which we will be raising.
You all are doing it and so happy for you! Love this channel and thank-you so much, wish you well!
This has been a great series. I have found it really interesting. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to do this comparison very informative 😊
This is a fair like-for-like comparison, but as soon as I saw you cooked them identically, I knew the Cornish would be preferred. We have found Rangers need to be cooked lower and slower than Cornish X in order to have that awesome flavor. I do think FR taste better when cooked that way, but for the other reasons you addressed I think we'll be raising CX next year as well
I'm about to start raising my sustainable flock (Black Australorps will be my first experience) and I think I will also raise some cornish cross in the meantime while the Australorps are growing up. I will keep a separate breeding flock for the Australorp hatching eggs to incubate and raise ongoing. But if the australorps don't fill out well I may downsize my Australorps and try freedom rangers or Cx.
Thank you so much for this series! I love all the very complete information you've given. We are starting meat birds for the first time this year and have been very back and forth between the two breeds mainly due to the gross rumors you hear about cornish cross. Your videos have been an incredible help!
The biggest surprise of the series.
I have been binge watching and have absolutely fell in love with your family 💕. Thank you for all the knowledge you guys share!
Thank you so much for the final video in this experiment and just thank you for all you do. Merry Christmas and God bless your family.
Thank you for this series. Much appreciation for the time spent sharing in the raising of chickens and recording & editing. Your results and opinions along the way were similar to others who we trust with the cost of raising and taste of the final product. It was a plus that you were not given free chicks to sway your results as some other channels were. We were surprised by the size of your FR's especially the breast meat as others had tender size dark colored breast meat. It's of great importance to us that you disclosed interaction with the hatchery that sells FR's and their dissatisfaction in your results. We will continue to raise CC. Happy holidays to your family! 🎄👍
Great series! Thank you! Blessing to you and yours!
What a great comparison. Provided a lot of great detail that people will find helpful. Happy holidays.
We loved this series. And watched everyone. We plan on doing meat chickens this coming year and found this super informative. I feel like we can now make a informed discussion. Thanks so much for making the videos!
I love you guys. You are loaded with so much information on your videos. I love facts. I've watched many of your videos from gardening, cows and now, chickens. I ordered my Cornish Cross chickens to arrive in 6 weeks. Thank you. I live in WV
Awesome series. Y'all have saved me a lot of time. Thank you for all the great videos
At twice the price it’s a no brainer and less work thank you for your time and I like the Philosophy of raising the Cornish cross and keeping a prolific egg layer just in case for good security. Great video
Thank You for all your hard work with this project. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas from my family to yours. God Bless
You guys did such a fantastic job of this whole test between the two. God bless your family.
We love seeing your videos. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas!
I love how y’all are always experimenting! My little nerd soul is so happy watching you. And I can learn with you while I save up for some land
Thanks for all you do! ❤️ Happy New Year!
Awesome! This video will save people a lot of money on feed and time! Thanks so much for doing this series for all of us newbie's!
This was an awesome experiment! Such great information! This definitely made our mind up about what to grow.
I'm really so happy you guys did this series! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks so much for the info I watched all the episodes. Merry Christmas
I thoroughly enjoyed your comparison, which really says something since I don’t even eat meat! The nerd in me enjoyed all the info! Great video! Have a very merry Christmas!
This has been an outstanding series!! Thank you do much.
So awesome! Thanks for doing this all! We are going to try for our first meat chickens in a few months!
That's cool the company will be sending new birds to try . I wonder if maybe there genetic stock went down or something from when they first did the testing on the birds.
Thank you for taking the time to educate us.
So thankful yall did this. Thank you. Guess i know what i will be ordering. Merry Christmas.
Thank you for sharing. Your helping me to plan for when i am able to do this. Hope you guys have a merry christmas, and i am glad kevin is doing much better.
What a surprising ending with the taste test. I am also surprised the company you purchased the freedom rangers from contacted you and are going to give you more chicks to do another experiment with. That is very generous. It will be interesting to see that data.
Thank you! I've been crazy curious about the taste test.
Thank you so much for this experiment. It has been fascinating!
Very nice people. They did an extremely precise but at the same time relaxing video. Truly professional.
Thank you for this series! It’s so helpful for me. I’m just getting started and this definitely helps me figure out which direction to go. You guys are awesome!
Thank you so much for sharing this video....I could tell by Kevin and your girl's reaction, they really enjoyed the taste and texture of the Cornish Cross chickens...They were really enjoying the flavor ! I'm looking forward to all your coming videos...this was an excellent experiment... :) Merry Christmas and God Bless !
What a great job you guys did in these comparisons videos!!! Thank you so much for your efforts! A Merry Christmas from NH to you and yours! God Bless
a point about the toughness...the freedom rangers were older since you butchered based on weight.
happygardener28 they butchered based on the place they got them frond recommendations
I had that thought also. That was the only way I could tell that the taste test experiment was a little unbalanced. And @Summer Robinson, that was a recommendation to get them to butchering size, yes. Doesn't change the fact that they Were still 2 weeks older though. Did it make a difference? Can't really know since they didn't do the taste test right after butchering one each of the chickens when they were the same age. Maybe something to try for next year if they try this experiment again
@@keandric2765 Since their goal grow out is not or never has been about age, this has nothing to do with their HOME experiment. Their goal is a final net weight of 6-6 1/2 #'s. They do not care about age, only weight and enough meat on the bird (and rabbits) to feed their family. It was not scientific experiment! It was a comparison of which one works best for them.
They work hard at figuring how much, what breed, what type to grow regardless if it's meat, veggies, or herbs. It's all about the amount and taste of food for their family. Kuddos to them!
Freedom rangers also have more muscular legs and probably less fat/leaner, which would make it tougher and drier! We are also used to eating a Cornish Cross (sold in grocery stores and served in restaurants). Think of it as grain fed vs grass fed beef! Awesome video- well done!!
She also cooked them together and visibly there was a size difference so the freedom ranger might have been slightly over cooked.
I loved this series!!!!! It seemed very informative and interesting to watch you compare these two types of birds.
Thank you all so much for breaking this down into these specifics. You've saved us a lot of time, guess work, trial and error, and have helped us make an informed decision. Since we prefer almost identicle methods for rearing, we will be going with Cornish Cross for our main chicken meat source, plus the culls from our Australorp flock. We will be attempting to get a bit of savings in the feed to meat conversion cost by growing at least a portion of our feed, which we are also hoping will help us get an improved flavor profile.
Thank you for doing a very thoughtful experiment. I hope you have a merry Christmas and a blessed new year.
Thank you for doing this, I'm the one that suggested the bone to meat ratio should be checked and I'm super happy you did this. Have a very Mery Christmas!
Loved the grand finale! I have to admit, I was pulling for the Cornish Cross! This was fun and very informative, thanks for all the time and effort you put into this ! Have a great day!
A good and thorough finale to the comparisons.
Well done.
Merry Christmas.
very educational comparison, from start to the final product.
I just want to say I have enjoyed this so much and I know you both took a lot of time and effort in making this a fair comparison. God bless
I'm late to watching your video it's been pretty busy! This series was excellent I really enjoyed watching. Thank you for doing this for us viewers. God Bless and have a very Merry Christmas
It was a real fun study you did and thanks. I want to add my thought. I would have compared the two largest birds of each. Because that's what in reality you would get. Maybe a 7 pound Cornish would taste different. I really enjoyed your study.
I just binged watched this whole series & what a great job you guys have done! I'm looking at raising my 1st few meat birds & this was very helpful! I think I'll start w/the CC for my 1st meat birds!
I love this video! I’m a geek to the core and this really fit my interests perfectly; especially since I am just now getting ready to raise my own birds. Thank you so much!
I've really enjoyed this series of videos and I thank you for them.
Excellent series, factual, no nonsense and fair! TY and Merry Christmas!!!
thanks for the info you make a great effort for us I appreciate this channel more than any other thanks God bless your family
We have always raised CC but wondered about the FR. Thanks for doing all the work and making an entertaining and informative presentation for us!! Enjoyed this very much. Nice input from you girls too!
Thanks so much for this series. You did a really good job of delivering the facts and staying non biased. I will probably start with cornish crosses.
Great video have enjoyed watching for awhile now even before I subscribed thanks for all the videos.
Thanks for the info! Merry Christmas!!!
So much wonderful information in your series. I will start my homestead this year so it couldn't have come at a better time. I always heard that the better taste of the rangers made the extra expense with it. Thank you so much for all the great information you share.
Thank you. Great series - great analysis - I only have 1/3 an acre - now I know which bird to put in for the spring - Stay Safe. God Bless.
There is a special market for freedom rangers raised a particular way in the Chinese community.
They can fetch a much higher price in the end.
is that because of the huge rooster feet? or...?
Great family. Pretty girls. Loved this series. We are raising Cornish Cross. Thanks for all your great work. God Bless.
Wow, you have done so much work!!!! Thank you so much for your “kitchen science”!!!!! Well done! Thank you, Thank you for the great data, gosh I’m impressed with how many hours you have saved me! Bless you, bless you!
thank you so much for doing that series that was really interesting