Official BYC Poll: What Is Your Perspective On Chickens For Meat

[3KillerBs]

They aren't designed to live.

That is what the phrase "terminal cross" means.

All our common meat animals -- pigs, beef cattle, etc. -- are terminal crosses bred to reach market weight quickly and efficiently. This is why meat is so much more affordable today than it was in the past.

 

[parvani]

You can buy Cornishx eggs if you look enough

You can buy eggs hatched by CX hens that happened to live long enough to lay eggs. But the breed isn't designed to live much past 8 weeks. Those hens had a birth defect -- a larger heart -- than the breed is designed to have.

Just because those hens laid eggs doesn't mean that the chicken you buy in the supermarket hatched from eggs.

Incubating cloned chicks under sterile laboratory conditions is simply more efficient than messing about with live chickens and their eggs. I have no proof that this is how most CX birds are incubated -- but if I owned a factory and wanted efficient, predictable results every day of the year, this is how I would do it. Once it's set up it's almost completely automated.

 

[Molpet]

You can buy eggs hatched by CX hens that happened to live long enough to lay eggs. But the breed isn't designed to live much past 8 weeks. Those hens had a birth defect -- a larger heart -- than the breed is designed to have.

Just because those hens laid eggs doesn't mean that the chicken you buy in the supermarket hatched from eggs.

Incubating cloned chicks under sterile laboratory conditions is simply more efficient than messing about with live chickens and their eggs. I have no proof that this is how most CX birds are incubated -- but if I owned a factory and wanted efficient, predictable results every day of the year, this is how I would do it. Once it's set up it's almost completely automated.

So far the clone sheep and cattle have been very expensive.
They sell the grandparents and parent CX stock.. just have to buy a thousand at a time.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

.....Our local big box hatchery used to sell CX eggs. They'd hatch into CX chickens. They're just a hybrid. They stopped selling them just this year because nobody bought them, buying day olds was cheaper.

Cloned animals aren't even approved by the FDA for food.

What?
What is even happening in this thread?

 

[parvani]

The term is selective breeding. No genes were engineered.
Yes it's a challenge.... to keep them alive long enough to breed strict even with diet and exercise, don't breed true because they are a 4 way hybrid, and the adult males breast gets in the way.

You are way behind the times. What used to be accomplished through selective breeding is now accomplished in a tiny fraction of the time through genetic engineering -- gene splicing and cloned reproduction.

Dolly the sheep was born over two decades ago -- or weren't you paying attention?

Humans have made huge strides in the field of bioengineering. We are now cloning human beings who have been genetically engineered.

Genetically engineered chickens aren't even a challenge anymore -- they're a fact of modern life. There are probably undergrad students in our universities who do it from scratch.

(My best friend in 1999 was a biochemistry undergrad who had spliced genes by herself. Imagine all the progress that's been made since then!)

 

[Beer can]

We process/eat our own, chickens ducks and turkeys. Not that I enjoy it but IMHO better than buying them in a store.

 

[parvani]

Cloned animals aren't even approved by the FDA for food.

That would be a very good reason for factory-laboratory hatching of cloned chicks not to become publicly known, wouldn't it?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

That would be a very good reason for factory hatching not to become publicly known, wouldn't it?

I guess chemtrails are real too and soy is turning frogs gay?

Ya'll are wild.

 

[Beer can]

Our local big box hatchery used to sell CX eggs.

Dunlap hatchery sells cx hatching eggs half the price of chicks. But as anyone that has incubated eggs especially shipped eggs knows hatching is never a guarantee.

 

[Molpet]

You are way behind the times. What used to be accomplished through selective breeding is now accomplished in a tiny fraction of the time through genetic engineering -- gene splicing and cloned reproduction.

Dolly the sheep was born over two decades ago -- or weren't you paying attention?

Humans have made huge strides in the field of bioengineering. We are now cloning human beings who have been genetically engineered.

Genetically engineered chickens aren't even a challenge anymore -- they're a fact of modern life. There are probably undergrad students in our universities who do it from scratch.

(My best friend in 1999 was a biochemistry undergrad who had spliced genes by herself. Imagine all the progress that's been made since then!)

It's expensive and doesn't have bones
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/18/sin...ever-to-serve-eat-just-lab-grown-chicken.html