Broiler Chicken suffering

RSPCA On line ^ | Just showed up on my machine | RSPCA 2001

[StACase]

The chick on the left is an egg-layer. The chick on the right is a meat chick or broiler, specially bred to grow much faster. After only four days the meat chick may already be developing bone and leg problems. By three weeks...

[FGRobinson]

Ditto's B_E, and just to remind everyone that most of the rest of the planet farms organicly, and are always starving.

[tiki]

That's okay, they only live about 6 weeks.

[redhead]

"After only four days the meat chick may already be developing bone and leg problems...

This has to be THE most OVERUSED word in the liberal lexicon. Everytime they want to stir up some sh*t, they stick "may" into every third sentence. Chicken Littles, all.

[be-baw]

may already be developing bone and leg problems...

This has to be THE most OVERUSED word in the liberal lexicon.

Very perceptive. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll watch for it now.

[redhead]

"There are laws against saying anything criticle about a food industry. What's-her-name-the-fat-one-Oprah! said some bad stuff about the beef industry, and just about went to jail. "

If this is the case, I'd better be careful! Here is the link to my website. Opinions Unlimited. Go to the "Nutrition Page" and check out "Polyunsaturated to Death," "The Bottom Line is the Bottom Line," or "What's For Breakfast?"

Am I going to jail?

[tubebender]

Re; # 14. Was that picture taken at the BATES MOTEL ???

[Mr. Lucky]

You may be right.

[Balding_Eagle]

Ditto's B_E, and just to remind everyone that most of the rest of the planet farms organicly, and are always starving.

Your right, of course. Knockout punch! I feel kinda stupid for not mentioning that.

[oceanperch]

perhaps your all scrambled.

[oceanperch]

Well with all the anti fat chick talk around here lately I would have to say a FR rooster would go for the egg layer chick.

[brewcrew]

Do you know how they caponize a rooster?

No. Do tell. Others may not be interested in the details, but I can take it.

[openotherend]

Meet chicks? No thanks, I'm married.

[gopheraj]

We raise chickens. Have for all our married life (34 yrs) and then my parents and grandparents (and his), along with other stock, cows (longhorns,) etc. IF these chickens are having leg/bone problems they can fix it with the feed. Same way with large breed dogs. We have an English Mastiff and fed that "little" sucker extra vitamins when he was growing so he wouldn't develop bone problems. We raise large breed chickens. That way we get eggs and meat. The eggs are darker than store bought and more flavorful. My father-in-law used to say that store bought eggs looked like pus and wouldn't eat one - same way with our oldest daughter - no store bought for her. No pen either - cheaper and easier - they run all over. We lose a few to coyotes and hawks but the smart ones survive. The ones we raise are the older variety - ones that grandmas raised. They are way more adapt at surviving than a, say, leghorn which poops a lot of eggs out but will not go try to find it's own food. Wants to be fed everything, sort of like a liberal chicken.

[Cuttnhorse]

I had never been around chickens before cowboying on a cattle ranch in central Nevada. I actually, to my surprise, liked them, they all have their own personalities and were good for an occasional laugh.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I live overseas and have a very hard time finding decent eggs. Chickens are fed fishmeal all over South America and the eggs taste like fish. Sure miss those big orange yokes.

[BlackbirdSST]

The blackbirds that would fall in the coop
Hey, I resemble that remark. Besides, I never fell into a coop, unless I had a few, or got shot in the head by some rancherwannabe with a .22! Blackbird.

[Cuttnhorse]

HA!!
Used to watch the real Blackbird at Beale AFB in California. Had a friend who had a permit to graze cattle on the base and we used to ride quite a bit pushing cows to various parts of the base as part of a grazing plan that the base environmental group had. Was fun to be jogging along watching all the flight activity on the base and the security guys got a kick out having a bunch of cowboys wandering around the base either horseback or dragging a big gooseneck.
Cheers
ps...I am constantly amazed at how many people read these posts...never thought I would get comment from the one about shooting blackbirds...!!!

[BlackbirdSST]

ps...I am constantly amazed at how many people read these posts...never thought I would get comment from the one about shooting blackbirds...!!!
Yeah, couldn't help but take a jab at ya! We gotta maintain a slight sense of humor with all else that's going on today. Good Day Cuttnhorse. Blackbird.

[dirtboy]

gotta agree with both of you - free range chicken tastes a lot better than commercial - if I'm cooking chicken soup, I have to skim all kinds of gray gunk off the top with commercial, I might make one skimming of white foam with free range. I seldom eat commercial meat any more - I can smell and taste the difference and I feel like crap afterwards.

[PLMerite]

A chicken ranch in Nevada with a dozen "layers."

Man, there's a ZZ-Top reference in there somewhere...

[Cuttnhorse]

I'm trying to recall where the heck the Chicken Ranch is located?...it isn't Bev Harrel's old Cottontail Ranch south of Hawthorne...but seems there was a relatively new one just south of Mina...but the picture has too many trees to be anywhere around Mina or Luning. Can't recall a Chicken Ranch out at Carson either and don't recall it being in the "circle" at Winnemucca.
I give up.