BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[CanadianBuckeye]

This is interesting, from: http://grcp.ucdavis.edu/publications/doc20/ch2.pdf
Can you imagine the looks on people's faces if the chickens at the supermarket were replaced with these?


If these were the broilers, can you imagine what the layers looked like under the feathers?????

 

[ronott1]

This is interesting, from: http://grcp.ucdavis.edu/publications/doc20/ch2.pdf
Can you imagine the looks on people's faces if the chickens at the supermarket were replaced with these?


If these were the broilers, can you imagine what the layers looked like under the feathers?????

Yes, I have posted before that our "expectation" of what a broiler should look like is not normal because of the 6 week old monsters sold in the supermarket currently.

 

[bluejean55girl]

This is interesting, from: http://grcp.ucdavis.edu/publications/doc20/ch2.pdf
Can you imagine the looks on people's faces if the chickens at the supermarket were replaced with these?


If these were the broilers, can you imagine what the layers looked like under the feathers?????

they would throw 'em in the trash and scream bloody murder that there isn't any meat on dem bones!

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

they would throw 'em in the trash and scream bloody murder that there isn't any meat on dem bones!

No wonder people in the 40's were all skinny, I guess this was dinner for a family of 4!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Did they starve them poor chickens

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I had another one hatch today

He has splayed legs so I am fixing it now I will take the ting off his legs tomarrow about 11:30 am cause that's about when we did it and it says to let the thing on for about 24 hours

 

[ronott1]

Did they starve them poor chickens

No, they processed them at about 14 weeks old. They did not think they had to get to a certain size to process them.

Broiler=12 to 14 weeks.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Did they starve them poor chickens

No,- that's what the genetic background of the chickens of the day could produce. Actually that's more "normal" than today's freakish meat birds. Today's birds have been heavily selected for maximum growth and maximum breast meat.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya I know it just looks so weird being so little but even though they processed them before they can fully grow but I know that chickens size has changed dramatically since the past years because of breeding them so much to keep up with the damand

 

[bramblefir]

I've got the world's happiest broody here. She was very busy doing "whack-a-mole" to get all 24 chicks tucked under. There's 1 LF and 23 bantams.

And yes, I said I wasn't getting chicks and here I am getting chicks.