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White one is most beautiful in my opinion

It's been my experience that Bresse are over rated. The perfect chicken should at least produce a marketable carcass, the Bresse does not. Do they offer value to the homestead that just wants to produce their own meat? Certainly, but there will be input costs and it will be hard to market Bresse meat to offset those input costs. Therefore, the Bresse is NOT economically sustainable. I've processed alot of Bresse over the years but have never processed a batch that was worth the food and labour that went into producing it. Bresse is reported to produce superior meat, but then is reported to need to be finished on a corn/milk diet to achieve that meat quality. That doesn't sound like pastured meat to me, it sounds like feedlot meat. Most people seek pastured chicken for the health benefits. Feedlot chicken is not healthier. France has a better alternative to the Bresse, their Label Rouge line of chickens. Label Rouge meat costs 2x conventional chicken and still has 50% of domestic whole bird market! They are really that good! These birds produce superior meat while being finished on pasture. This makes them healthier. They produce a carcass easily marketed to neighbours to help offset input costs. This makes them economically sustainable. In the US, both the Kosher Kings and the Freedom Rangers are examples of Label Rouge style chickens. A homesteader could maintain a breeding flock of either and get excellent results. Breeding culls are marketable, male and female. They are amazing layers, pretty much as good as any ISA Brown. The eggs do cost a bit more to produce because you are feeding a larger hen, but this is pennies in the bigger picture of having marketable carcasses. Even the 6-7 pound spent hens have value! Ground from thighs and breast, instapot type dishes from the wings and drums, and amazing bone broth from the remaining carcass. With Bresse, a homesteader is paying to farm. With the Label Rouge style chickens, the homesteader can get paid to farm.

I find it very interesting how many videos I've seen where people call their birds "dual purpose" and then say they've never eaten them, and when they do, they are eating them as old hens. I've heard every single chicken called dual purpose and no one has backed that up with experience except when it comes to the American Bresse.

Looking at couple boys.. rewatching your videos. Have 15 boys and I narrowed it down to 2. Long backs but very tall.

Do you sale them ready to cook?

Your Bresse seems so calm...mine have been hyper from the get go and have acted like they want absolutely nothing to do with me. They are now 9 weeks old and are as wild as can be. Is this normal for the Bresse breed? Excellent video. Thank you

Still rely on getting grain though

NO MILK? YOU DID NOT PROPERLY FINISH! SACRE BLEU!!!

I really love what you are doing with developing your flock. Do you sell fertile eggs, chicks or grown birds for breeders?😎❤

Where did you get your White Holland Turkeys from Mandelyn? I have been trying to source some with no luck.

Back in 1967 my father told me that story about turkeys looking up in a rainstorm and drowning. I have been trying to get ahold of some of these White Hollands and can't find any. any recommendations?

I want to start going with the Breese and growing/breeding for my family. I need guidance on how to go about it so that I don’t have any inbreeding.

Do you ship hatching eggs? I'm in california

I wishing I would have known you live down the road from where I used to before I moved to Kentucky cuz I would have tried to have you be a mentor to me before I moved down to where I'm at . And I don't care what anybody says you can learn more about your own chicken breed from watching someone else with their chicken breed and what you can learn on your own you have showed me a butt ton of info to help me breathe my Buckeyes that I absolutely love. Thank you for the videos and keep making them the way you do it you have more knowledge than most people and you're willing to show everyone how you got that knowledge and how they can get that knowledge and education so thank you

Lots of great stuff here! Thank you ❤🐔🐔🐔

We tried rir roosters, they were just after puberty, they tasted gamey. Wife says never again. Any suggestions what would make the next experience better? We have Bielefelders and Jersey Giants mainly.

Looking forward to the results! Do you have any data from prior years, with other feed(s) to compare against these two groups? Curious what a difference the extra protein made.

Nice Culling episode Mandelyn..

Buy you checks from Chase @ The Recreational Homestead. You want regret it.

Listen gorgeous just when I think I get cought up with you. Yes you go change things. Slow down I I am trying to process all your knowledge. Love your. Love content. But I need time to process 😅

Thank you for ending the video with the best ones that you already chose earlier. It’s awesome to see the comparison! I feel like I’m going to keep too many roosters because I’m afraid of breeding myself into too short of a back or not enough fleshing… 😆

7:00 PREACH! This is what it’s all about. 🏆🏆🏆 love this!!!

Thank you. You answered few of my questions! You available end of week I got few questions I’ll email you few! Maybe next weekend after my hatch date can do a phone call if you have some time to chat? They are all perfect!!! For the freezer! I got 1 favorite he is top three on weight got big chest kind of looks like your favorite so I put pink zip tie on him.

Just watched this one again. I’m too picky. Went thru my guys and I picked 2 girls 1 male so far 😳. Can’t wait for yours to hatch

I am in northern Wisconsin. We get very cold -35 F. There is such a huge comb on the American Bresse. It is the only thing holding me back. I bought some Chanteclers, but this would be a long road to get them where the American Bresse already are. Any suggestions or ideas for me?

In terms of faster growth, which is Bresse or Sasso?

Is the egg productivity of Bresse chickens good? Compared to Sasso or Ligh Sussex, which one is better?

Just candled got 2 from pen 5 ! Another week left 🤞

That's a good looking Rooster. I see you have few hens with the raw back also.

Wow! I really liked this video and that you were showing some adult characteristics. Those of us still reaching for better type can actually see what some of those things are. I’m sold on the peat moss, too! So tired of the pine flakes because they take forever to compost down 🤦‍♀️

I have the same problem or blessing (all at the same time). I have 5 lines of Partridge Chanteclers, with a 6th hybrid line coming next year (this is a total experiment I am doing with another breeder). I have cast the net wide to get the genetics that I need to perfect my line. I am not at all against line breeding or inbreeding, but you can breed that way till dooms day, and if you do not have the genetic characteristic you need in that line, you will never get it. I like they way Sigrid Van Dort explains it. You are making soup, the soup is your best line, and the other lines are there to add the correct seasoning to perfect the flavour. So my best line gives me really nice birds, my best penciling and type, but they are too small and too light in hackle and somewhat light in ground colour. I also had fertility problems with the males. So I was able to get some nice size birds from a distantly related line and it fixed my fertility problem, which really was my biggest problem. But that line did not fix my hackle problem, most of this cross are light coloured birds, and this line gave me a bit too much fluff which obscures the penciling in my females (I did get 2 excellent show birds from this cross). I had the opportunity to get three more lines through hatching eggs, so I took them to see what is useful, the one line has really nice size, the second line has nice reddish colour, not straw colour in the hackle, and the third line has given me a nice penciled female with tighter feathering, unrelated to my original birds. I cull lots and hard, and I have managed to keep a small flock of my original birds pure. I add new blood through the females (they breed truer) and with the exception of my first infusion to fix my fertility, I will not add any outside blood to my main flock until they are 3/4 related and have gone through a rigours selection process. I will keep 1 or 2 pullets from these lines, only excellent birds, but it gives me the seasoning I need to perfect my flock.

Good stuff pal!

Looks like I missed out on getting some day old chicks locally, so do you ship day old chicks or are you not equipped for that?

managing separate pens is a constant challenge, never seem to have enough space.

For me adding new bird in a pen at night always works out for the best

Always on the Go and very informative thank you

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Sometime in my adulthood I stopped enjoying eating turkey meat. I wonder if it would taste better to me if I raised it myself?

I never thought about a 4-day aging process for chicken because store-bought chicken can't be left in the refrigerator that long. Ha. Home grown, home processed meat skips the days from factory processor to store purchase... Neat! I'll be receiving my first white ABC in the mail in two days! I'm thrilled to be staring my meat bird journey having skipped the gross cornish cross phase. Yuck. I just can't imagine raising birds that have such trouble walking and they just sit, eat, and poop all day. It makes me sad to see videos about it. These American Bresse are wonderful, beautiful, normal chickens. <3

Oh beautiful I like turkey

Seeing how your in Ohio why don't you do buckeyes because I'm they are very hardy just like your mix should be? Just wandering love your videos

Your Holland looks like my White Broad Breasted. What’s your Tom weigh? Maybe I just can’t see the size difference.

I'm giving this breed a shot, I have 48 chicks. I tried the other breed that said they were dual purpose was not impressed, they have wonderful colored feathers, but not much meat. I even hatch some out and culled the roosters, didn't like the size when dressed out. I'm hoping these are what I'm reading, watch and researching, about them. But I want to thank you for your detailed assessment of them, you have a lot of years with them, to bring us good information. I have watched multiple video that you have made about them and I have gotten good information from them. Thank you again.

I live in northern wisconsin where this breed will be perfect. My question is, are you worried about losing the egg laying ability while you perfect the frame and carcass?

I heard a red light will prevent the chicks from pecking each other.

What insight you share :-) thank you 👍

How much grit per bottle???

White on a turkey is beautiful.

Thanks for this

What does you turkey house look like? Cheers