Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[junebuggena]

That's not really dumb though cause a lot of people are upset by it and I can see why, it is pretty sad/gross. And I admit I used to think it was really cruel and horrible and stuff too and still semi do, idk, but then when I heard people, on here i think actually, saying it actually is humane and takes like a millisecond/they die instantaneously and it's the most humane way, i realized they were right/sorta changed my view, mostly just realized most people don't know. But that said, it still is sad and I don't like how they have to chuck them into the grinder, they could place them in more gently or at least act like they care. And I don't see why they even have to grind up male chicks anyway. I guess they maybe use it in lower end pet food but still. They should try to find homes or at least use them for the meat industry?

It's just not economical to raise those cockerels to the point of processing for meat. Especially since Cornish Cross can be raised and processed at only 6 to 8 weeks old, and yield a lot more meat than even a hefty dual purpose male will at 16 weeks. You have to consider that a lot of those males aren't even decent meat breeds. There is simply no way for hatcheries to feed them for 16 to 18 weeks and still make any sort of profit. By grinding them for chicken by-product meal, they can at least get some money for them.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's just not economical to raise those cockerels to the point of processing for meat. Especially since Cornish Cross can be raised and processed at only 6 to 8 weeks old, and yield a lot more meat than even a hefty dual purpose male will at 16 weeks. You have to consider that a lot of those males aren't even decent meat breeds. There is simply no way for hatcheries to feed them for 16 to 18 weeks and still make any sort of profit. By grinding them for chicken by-product meal, they can at least get some money for them.

That makes sense, I guess I didn't realize most weren't meat breeds. I thought a lot of them were but I guess not most and I was thinking less of the actual hatcheries raising them and more they could give them to meat raisers but I guess they'd probably want to buy their own. Plus like you said they wouldn't be worth raising. But I guess I hoped the rare breeds at least got sold

 

[junebuggena]

The thing is, hatcheries don't really have any truly rare breeds. And meat producers don't even bother with dual purpose breeds. They deal with Cornish Cross exclusively.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

It's just not economical to raise those cockerels to the point of processing for meat. Especially since Cornish Cross can be raised and processed at only 6 to 8 weeks old, and yield a lot more meat than even a hefty dual purpose male will at 16 weeks. You have to consider that a lot of those males aren't even decent meat breeds. There is simply no way for hatcheries to feed them for 16 to 18 weeks and still make any sort of profit. By grinding them for chicken by-product meal, they can at least get some money for them.

Not to mention they actual offer up a economy deal for people to buy large numbers of male chicks to raise for meat purposes. They just simply cannot use the ones that do not sell... even if some are held back to be used in the hatcheries breeding stock, others are put in the boxes as packing peanuts to keep the purchases chicks warm. I bought a batch of sexed chicks from a missouri hatchery and actually ordered about 7 cockerels, they sent me 6 extras cockerels for warmth and I didn't lose a single chick. I do wish they would have put some sort of ID on the males but free is free.

 

[7 Biddies]

That is too good. One of my peers recently learned about male chicks being ground up in hatcheries. He was going on and on about it, and was devastated. I felt so bad for the guy! Either way, it was still pretty funny hearing him exclaim, "Do you know what they DO!? They GRIND THEM UP! They are gone like THAT!?" 

Welcome to the real world buddy. 

Oh no! Why did you have to tell us that? I could've gone the rest of my life not knowing exactly what happens to the surplus males. And, such a waste when they could've been raised for food.

 

[junebuggena]

The commercial meat producers actually see it as a waste to try to raise anything other than Cornish Cross for meat.

 

[ShrekDawg]

The thing is, hatcheries don't really have any truly rare breeds. And meat producers don't even bother with dual purpose breeds. They deal with Cornish Cross exclusively.

Not to mention they actual offer up a economy deal for people to buy large numbers of male chicks to raise for meat purposes. They just simply cannot use the ones that do not sell... even if some are held back to be used in the hatcheries breeding stock, others are put in the boxes as packing peanuts to keep the purchases chicks warm. I bought a batch of sexed chicks from a missouri hatchery and actually ordered about 7 cockerels, they sent me 6 extras cockerels for warmth and I didn't lose a single chick. I do wish they would have put some sort of ID on the males but free is free.

Oh no! Why did you have to tell us that? I could've gone the rest of my life not knowing exactly what happens to the surplus males. And, such a waste when they could've been raised for food.

The commercial meat producers actually see it as a waste to try to raise anything other than Cornish Cross for meat.

That makes sense, thanks.

Though i must admit i fell for it when they say rare breeds haha so even meyer doesnt have any?

 

[junebuggena]

Meyer considers Speckled Sussex and Easter Eggers rare, so no, not even Meyer has any actually rare breeds.

 

[Leigti]

I don't know how Easter Eggars could be rare. Speckled Sussex maybe, I know I was shocked when I actually found them at my local feed store. They were one of the breeds I really wanted so of course I had to go get a couple maybe rareness depends more on the quality you're looking for in the part of the country you're in.

 

[junebuggena]

Hatcheries basically consider anything that's not a really common production breed used by commercial producers, as rare.