Posted on 01/08/2017 10:37:13 AM PST by Trump20162020
American families are getting smaller and yet chickens are getting larger.
As we begin 2017, Americans can look back at 2016 as yet another year with record-high chicken consumption—an average of 89.6 pounds per person. That’s more than three times as much as our grandparents ate.
Chickens we eat today are twice as big as they were 60 years ago. In 1955, the average weight of chickens sold on market was 3.07 pounds, while the number for the first half of 2016 was 6.18 pounds, according to National Chicken Council, a nonprofit trade organization based in Washington, D.C.
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Wha....?
You just “Scooby Doo’d” me there, FRiend.
You eat “your girls”?!
Da fuq you talking ‘bout, Willis?
The yellow fat was from older birds. The new breeds are raised in six months and never mature. The best chicken soup is from old hens. Their fat is yellow and they have to be boiled down to make them tender.
The new breeds are flavorless and have no muscle since they are raised in windowless warehouses. They are factory raised for uniformity and efficiency. The eggs are even worse. Fresh chicken and eggs are a world removed from the factory farms.
To get to the other side?
NO. I do not eat my girls. Would never think of that. They are a part of the family and provide us with an abundance of eggs.
Unfortunately, we have lost some of our girls in previous years to varmints and have learned lessons along the way.
Our fat girls lay big eggs.
To get to the other side?
Chick’s are “Breaking on Through” to the other side?
Didn’t Perdue claim at one time to feed their chicks marigold for color?
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/30/local/me-12517
I dunno. A diet of half corn and half bean meal would would provide 28% protein (which is a little high, as I recall).
Without the intention of highjacking a thread, if you have never tasted the meat of a wild turkey, then you don't *know* what turkey should taste like.
Your first impression is *WOW*! So this is what turkey is supposed to taste like. Wild is good.
Carry on.
Same with pork, heritage pigs,or wild boar are much better than that tasteless commercial farm crap.
Schmaltz.
Schmaltz link: Cooking with schmaltz
Why are chickens so much heavier today?
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That’s only because you spent so much effort hunting that you were starving. The bred the brains and flavor out of domestic turkeys. Lol
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Great recipe. Never really rendered chicken fat other than making soup. Sounds delicious—just wish they’d not added the gratuitous “of course, it’s not good for you.”
Real fat is not only good, it’s essential for health. Low fat diets are dangerous, and phony fats kill.
May I add, young venison?
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