Chicken Tasting - Some More Sources

As I have been searching for a local source for "period" chickens as well as the difference between heritage and modern breeds I decided to list some of the additional information I have dug up.

Potential source for a period breed:
http://turtlebackfarm.com/?page_id=645

I ordered chickens from here today.
http://www.gofflepoultry.com/
They have 2 types of chickens a white one and a red one.  The white one is the commercial Cornish Cross.  The red one they call a Sasso chicken, which Goffles says has a distinctly different taste.  Some additional digging around on the internet produced a French company Sasso that essentially produces designer chickens for free range meat and egg production.  Sasso chickens appear to be the puggles and cockapoos of the chicken world.  Anyway, here is their website and their breeding methodology, I'm not sure which type Goffles raises or even if they order fertilized eggs or do their own breeding on site.  http://www.sasso.fr/index.php?produit=home&lg=en

Commercial processing of chickens seem to involve injecting the chickens with a saline solution to produce juicer and plumper chickens especially the breast meat.  My take on it is that everything tastes like chicken except chicken?  Here are some articles I've found from more "reputable" sources regarding plumping.  Lookie chickens can have breast enhancements too!
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/04/opinion/la-ed-chicken4-2010jan04
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/07/22/138606851/got-enhanced-meat-usda-rule-may-make-it-easier-to-tell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumping

Here is an article from the American Livestock Breed Conservancy about cooking heritage breeds.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/cookingwheritagechicken.pdf  It also discusses some of the differences between heritage breeds and modern chickens.

Their main website also has good information about heritage breeds in general and a breeder directory.
http://www.albc-usa.org/

I must say that while my research into sheep fleeces has helped me in looking for period breed chickens, I must say that I currently know more about chickens than I ever wanted too and yet there are more unanswered questions.

Among them are:
Even if I get my hands on a heritage breed chicken, I have no way of telling if or how this chicken has been "improved."
Many of the heritage breeds are landrace breeds.  This means that due to the genetic diversity within the population there is no way to determine how much the breed will have changed once they are transplant away from their "native" environment.

Anyway, this is a start, with more research I can probably track down some heritage chickens.  So our next "tasting" may be more period. And if nothing else, I hope that my questions and requests for certain heritage breeds will show that there is a retail interest in these types of chickens and perhaps encourage people to raise them and thereby help save some of these breeds.  Ironic isn't it?  I want to eat these chickens and yet because of this I'm creating a demand to produce more.