Feral Hawaiian chickens laying a dozen eggs a day

At least they added a correction about the number of eggs per day.

If they really wanted to limit the feral chicken population, they would talk about how TASTY they were and offer a few feral chicken recipies. I think they have crock pots or soup pots in Hawaii. THAT would take care of a lot of the population.

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Umm. Storebought chicken is not steroid ridden. Their phenomenal growth is due to genetics, not steroids. And you can raise the frankenchickens (Cornish X) yourself if you want to. I do every year.

Perhaps you can explain to me how it is, if it isnt steroids, how they get frankenchickens completely to size in four to five weeks and a non commercial grower can't do it in under seven even feeding 24-26% protein? I worked in commercial houses from the time i was 11 til i was 21 and know a great many people who raise broilers commercially today. They never have them longer than five weeks. So other than steroids/growth hormones, what could be in their feed that we dont have access to?

My ex-husband worked on a Foster Farms ranch (major California large-scale chicken producer) for 7 years. Who told you they butcher in 4-5 weeks? Whoever told you that either A) lied or B) was trying to get you riled up or C) was smokin' crack.

I can tell you from personal experience and having lived it for 7 years that Foster Farms raises their cornish crosses for exactly 8 weeks from chick dump (when they bring the trays of chicks out to the ranches and dump them in the chicken houses) to live haul (when they come in the night and haul them off to the processing plant in Livingston, California). At 4-5 weeks, they do come and take 1 house (each ranch has 14 houses) and process them for "cornish game hens" (mini frozen chickens).

I can also speak with certainty that while I prefer home-raised chicken, Foster Farms does not feed their chickens steroids. They are raised relatively humanely (for a factory farm) and cared for daily by conscientious ranch personnel.

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Perhaps you can explain to me how it is, if it isnt steroids, how they get frankenchickens completely to size in four to five weeks and a non commercial grower can't do it in under seven even feeding 24-26% protein? I worked in commercial houses from the time i was 11 til i was 21 and know a great many people who raise broilers commercially today. They never have them longer than five weeks. So other than steroids/growth hormones, what could be in their feed that we dont have access to?

My ex-husband worked on a Foster Farms ranch (major California large-scale chicken producer) for 7 years. Who told you they butcher in 4-5 weeks? Whoever told you that either A) lied or B) was trying to get you riled up or C) was smokin' crack.

I can tell you from personal experience and having lived it for 7 years that Foster Farms raises their cornish crosses for exactly 8 weeks from chick dump (when they bring the trays of chicks out to the ranches and dump them in the chicken houses) to live haul (when they come in the night and haul them off to the processing plant in Livingston, California). At 4-5 weeks, they do come and take 1 house (each ranch has 14 houses) and process them for "cornish game hens" (mini frozen chickens).

I can also speak with certainty that while I prefer home-raised chicken, Foster Farms does not feed their chickens steroids. They are raised relatively humanely (for a factory farm) and cared for daily by conscientious ranch personnel.

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The lady growing them who owns the five houses who raises them told me that. And when she gets a new shipment of chicks in and then four to five weeks later the houses are empty again i would say its hard to argue with her. I go by her farm five days a week so i see when they bring them and i see when they leave. Now its possible they take them somewhere else for a two week vacation before slaughter but usually when they take chickens out of broiler houses in tennessee they take them straight to slaughter. I have no vested interest in lying to anyone on this forum, i was just merely stating what i observed at one of the local broiler farms. If i am wrong about the steroids and growth hormone then I appologize for having misled anyone here. But I have seen these birds and they are sure as heck bigger than any cornish hen I have ever seen at a grocery store.

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My ex-husband worked on a Foster Farms ranch (major California large-scale chicken producer) for 7 years. Who told you they butcher in 4-5 weeks? Whoever told you that either A) lied or B) was trying to get you riled up or C) was smokin' crack.

I can tell you from personal experience and having lived it for 7 years that Foster Farms raises their cornish crosses for exactly 8 weeks from chick dump (when they bring the trays of chicks out to the ranches and dump them in the chicken houses) to live haul (when they come in the night and haul them off to the processing plant in Livingston, California). At 4-5 weeks, they do come and take 1 house (each ranch has 14 houses) and process them for "cornish game hens" (mini frozen chickens).

I can also speak with certainty that while I prefer home-raised chicken, Foster Farms does not feed their chickens steroids. They are raised relatively humanely (for a factory farm) and cared for daily by conscientious ranch personnel.

Edited for typos/bad syntax.

The lady growing them who owns the five houses who raises them told me that. And when she gets a new shipment of chicks in and then four to five weeks later the houses are empty again i would say its hard to argue with her. I go by her farm five days a week so i see when they bring them and i see when they leave. Now its possible they take them somewhere else for a two week vacation before slaughter but usually when they take chickens out of broiler houses in tennessee they take them straight to slaughter.

Oh sure they do butcher some at 4 and 5 weeks....thats cornish game hens...but fryers are butchers at around 8 weeks, and yes we can do the same, its the breed cornish X rock ...yes a good feed , but not steroids.....nobody are getting 4 lb chicken in 4 weeks..... like i said yes many are butcher at 4 weeks, just check the store how many cornish game hens are sold.

they published a rather lame correction at the end of the story:


* Feral birds growing in numbers. A hen can lay about one egg per day, according to state wildlife biologist Fern Duvall. A story published on Page A1 and continued on Page A4 on Saturday incorrectly reported the amount of eggs a hen can lay.

The Maui News apologizes for the errors.

* The Maui News wants to promptly correct errors in fact or make clarifications on information appearing in the newspaper. To report an error or clarification, please call 242-6343 or send email to [email protected].