Cornish Cross Dethroned? Ginger Broiler vs Delaware heritage breed - an honest 9 week review
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2023
- We're 9 weeks into our search for the perfect alternative to Cornish Cross chickens.
Disclaimer: if you love Cornish Cross, then please don't take offense at this video or any of the opinions expressed herein.
But the truth is, I REALLY don't like Cornish Cross, but I still need a plump, meaty bird that doesn't eat money for 20 weeks before harvesting.
And I think we've found TWO!
Watch the whole video and see what we found!
a big shout out to Tillman Family Farm for their very well done chicken processing video. Link below:
@tillmanfamilyfarm7759
You showed the dressed carcass! A rare thing. You are the best. Have you looked at Dorking chickens? Murray has them. It seems to be a good sized bird for a couple or small family dinner. Apparently they are a "better" tasting bird. Guildbrook Farm does them exclusively. I'm not in the position to do homesteading. I left Mo. during the Obama years and settled down here in Ecuador. Love your channel. God Bless.
I just order a small group of 1 male and 5 females of the Delaware. Thanks for this video.
You should to tried pasture raising Cornish cross..the flavor are very good and brown meat.. but agree with you we have to pay each chicken we can't reproduce...some people say breesy chicken or Plymouth rock but I want to try with Delaware this year... thanks for the information
Awesome video!!!
I was contemplating getting the Ginger B , thanks for your review, going to try them.
Thanks for the video! With those fast growing breeds, it’s vital to weigh them every couple weeks and divide them up, or they will get to be all different sizes. The big operations split them into three groups: underweight, overweight, and just right. Don’t necessarily change the amount of feed per bird, just make sure the fatties are competing with each other and not the runts.
Thanks! I'm strongly considering Delaware broilers.
With no doubt this is the best video for anybody has a question for AHMED chicken producing I was looking for this information for a long time and I guess you are nailed it. Thank you you did a great job.
Thank you for demonstrating this comparison! My husband and I have been looking for a true dual purpose bird that is reproducible, and I think we’re going to get some enhanced delawares. This has been really helpful!!!
Good video
I cross buff orpington roo on a barred rock hen..
Thank you ive been looking at Delaware for months and i think im going to get them and then try to bread the biggest and kindest lol
the regular Delaware is only good as a slow cooked bird for soup, you can cross a delaware rooster with a new hamphsire hen to make whats called an indian river chicken which is a broiler.
The American Buff Orpington is no longer a good dual purpose bird. The breeding stock has gone to crap since it fell out of favor as dual purpose. It also almost hit the endangered species list. It would take a long time and some very selective breeding to get them back to their dual purpose origins. I contemplated looking into getting some European stock since they were maintained overseas, but decided against it. Their meat is not that great IMO. I've stuck with freedom rangers, but I'll be working on an American Bresse cross here soon. I'll be crossing male ABs with Freedom Rangers; I have 3 20 week old hens; 10-12lbs and 4 Breese roos; 2 @ 19 weeks and 2 @ 10. Should be interesting to see what happens with the offspring.
Last year I got the ginger broilers from mcmurray, and some they called “Cornish roasters”. The roaster is not available this year because of avian flu and I don’t know what strain it was, but it was way better than regular jumbo cornishx, as far as health and legs, and they got really reallly big. The ginger broilers are an awesome free range meat chicken, I still have several of last years hens and a rooster, they make great layers too, and I’m gonna see what happens when I hatch the ginger eggs, I just set some today.
You would have done better with white rocks.
If you pressure cook the delawares in a instapot for at least 3 hours they're not good for frying that's been my experience
Every chicken I got from mcmurrey that I ate was like chewing rubber
Ive had buff orpingtons for the past 15 yrs...in my opinion they are worthless...bony carcasses...they look big but they are all fluffy feathers.Theyre eggs arent very big.I only keep a couple because they go broody.
Are those just golden comets that they’re calling Ginger broilers? Because I’ve got two golden comet hens who are not quite 6 months