Poultry Breeds (great meat taste)

Question 1

Poultry Great Meat Taste:
- White feathers with yellow shank
- Aggressive, loud, and active
- quintessential meat chicken
- Grow fast, too fast for their body to keep up; they must be butchered so they can’t suffer longer

Answer 1

Cornish Cross Chicken

Question 2

Poultry Great Meat Taste:
- White feathers with light/pale blue shank
- culled at 16-20 weeks old
- slow growers
- diet is monitored strictly by French Agriculture Department

Answer 2

Bresse Chicken

Question 3

Poultry Great Meat Taste:
- The largest purebred breed of chicken caused by aiming to replace turkey
- Are slow growers
- They are calm and docile
- Recognized color are: White, blue, Black, and Splash (White with black spots)

Answer 3

Jersey Giant