Six Keys to Selecting a Chicken Breed.... Number 6

Sorry i didn't post this when it was going to be in order!!

This is a article from the magazine Backyard Poultry By: Brandon Mitchell from Tennessee.

               6 CARCASS QUALITY AND OTHER USES
Lastly are carcass quality and other uses. Fly tying, mentioned above, is one of these other uses, and you'll get the most feathers when " the hens stop laying and thy fryer starts frying." Cornish-Rock crosses grow the fastest and have the most meat, but they lay very few eggs if allowed to reach that age (most aren't). Spent hens are best slow cooked, and breeds like Delaware, New Hampshire Reds, Orpingtons, and all Wyandottes and Rocks produce good carcasses and lots of eggs before they're through. If you don't feel like butchering hens, you can sell them and excess roosters for ornamental purpose, meat, or bug control. You can also sell them earlier (when they're still laying) as discounted egg-layers.
           With all this criteria, there are still plenty of choices out there. Start out with a few breeds. Keep the ones you like. Sell or eat the ones you don't, and each year try a new breed on for size. As they say, so many chickens, so little time.