Re: turkens?
- From: OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:19:17 -0500
In article <1127929782.649418.201070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"-L." <gentleboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was reading another thread and came cross mention of turkens - did a
> little research and discovered they are really chickens. But my dumb
> question is this: does the meat taste any different from a chicken?
<lol> I think they are called turkens because some goofball thought that
they looked like a cross between a chicken and a turkey!
They aren't.
They are just a different breed of chicken, known actually as
"Transylvania nake necks".
So no, the meat tastes no different. They are just a chicken with an
interesting feather pattern.
Naked neck feathering BTW is autosomal dominant, so ANY other breed of
chicken that you cross them with, all the chicks will have a naked
neck. Re-cross them with each other and 75% of the chicks will have
naked necks, and so on down the Autosomal dominant genetic chain. ;-)
>
> Are there other fowl that are easy to raise that make good meat
> animals? I mean, other than chickens, turkeys, ducks, and game hens?
> What about pheasant? Are they easy to raise and/or worth the effort?
Pheasant are a PITA. Territorial and they eat each other.
You want meat birds? Try emus, or rheas.
>
> The reason I am asking is that we are looking into animal husbandry of
> different sorts, for the future (raise our own meat and eggs -
> primarily rabbits and chickens but would eventually diversify).
Goats.
>
> TIA for any info.
>
> -L.
Cheers!
>
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Om.
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