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Oh, great! I'm also a bit thrown off by their appearance, but any chicken besides a mean chicken will most likely grow on me.

So, as FunClucks suggested, I found a second breed to try along with the Chanteclers. I chose Naked Necks, a.k.a. Turkens. Now, I was hesitant about choosing them because of the lack of feathering, but I looked at a lot of sources, and they said that Turkens would do fine in the cold. And if...

So it seems that the NHs are a good breed. I guess I'll have to try those out! Thanks for your information!

Alright, I will do a bit of research and test out some other breeds. Thank you for your advice!

I currently have a backyard flock for just eggs. It's quite a hodgepodge of breeds in there, and most of them are breeds that are good in the heat, since I live in a hot state currently. I chose Chanteclers because I wanted a sustainable meat bird, good in the cold, that I could raise for myself...

Oh, thank you for the article! That puts it into better perspective for me. I've never really monitored how much feed my layers eat, because my dad is in charge of that flock, so I'm not paying for their feed. With these meat birds, however, I was hoping to get an estimation of how much food...

So I'm going to start raising meat birds in a few years, and have decided on Chanteclers. Whenever I search up how much meat birds eat, it gives me the amount for commercial birds that will be slaughtered, and when I search for dual purpose, it gives the ingredients that are needed in the feed...