Here in PNG, you can buy 50 x day old chicks and the locals fill them up with food and then sell them after 16 weeks as chooks for eating. They tend to be white birds.
If one keeps them longer, will they lay eggs?
painmaster said:
Here in PNG, you can buy 50 x day old chicks and the locals fill them up with food and then sell them after 16 weeks as chooks for eating. They tend to be white birds.If one keeps them longer, will they lay eggs?
probably. don’t know how regularly though.
bluegreen said:
painmaster said:
Here in PNG, you can buy 50 x day old chicks and the locals fill them up with food and then sell them after 16 weeks as chooks for eating. They tend to be white birds.If one keeps them longer, will they lay eggs?
probably. don’t know how regularly though.
but the odds would be good for laying?
painmaster said:
bluegreen said:
painmaster said:
Here in PNG, you can buy 50 x day old chicks and the locals fill them up with food and then sell them after 16 weeks as chooks for eating. They tend to be white birds.If one keeps them longer, will they lay eggs?
probably. don’t know how regularly though.
but the odds would be good for laying?
I don’t know if they go for dedicated meat breeds in PNG. If they are the very fast growing large birds bred especially for meat the chances are that they will have poor health as they get older. I expect they will lay for a time anyway but some meat breeds are too big for their bone density and heart and will have problems. If they are a general run of the mill bird, or dual purpose bird then fine for eggs. If you are after eggs and are in doubt might be better to get a breed you know was bred for eggs.
painmaster said:
Here in PNG, you can buy 50 x day old chicks and the locals fill them up with food and then sell them after 16 weeks as chooks for eating. They tend to be white birds.If one keeps them longer, will they lay eggs?
Not if they are what’s called ‘meaties’. Purpose bred to put on bulk fast for eating, they don’t live long if you decide to keep them. I had some here and just could not believe how fast they grew. I don’t have it in me to kill my own so I gave the lot away.
I was just thinking, at 16 – 20 weeks, Gladstone (Araucana rooster) would have been good eating (but the rose he’s buried under has wonderful blooms this year)…not a very big bird but he was meaty…his two nest sisters would not be such good eating but they lay at least 5 eggs a week…Lavender of course is a nest mother right now (Netta being the egg mother)…
The colour is not relevant to egg-laying…it’s not relevant to meat production properties, either…what the birds are good at, depends on the breed…and the breed generally determines the feather colours…feather patterns…Do you want a chooky that’s got a placid nature, is OK with small spaces, and lays 5 – 7 eggs per week?