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Why not grow the males to be for eating?
by kgc 9y ago
Why not grow the males to be for eating?
- fenwick67 9y agoRoosters don't lay eggs, and somebody did the math and figured out the return on hens vs roosters is so much better it's not even worth raising the roosters.
- Falling3 9y agoRoosters are raised for meat - just a different breed from those raised to lay eggs.
- golem14 9y agoNot what I heard. I am led to believe the males are essentially shredded alive. http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2016/06/13/us-egg-producers-to-eliminate-routine-killing-male-chicks-by-2020.html http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2016/06/13/us-egg-producer...
- bg4 9y agoHas anyone done the math recently or is it industry dogma?
- newnewpdro 9y agoCapon is tasty though.
- Moto7451 9y agoBroilers and Layers have very different life cycles due to selective breeding. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-layers-and-broilers-on-a-poultry-farm https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-layers-...
- bayesian_horse 9y agoBecause the traits beneficial to meat production (like growth rate, muscle development etc) are inversely correlated to the traits beneficial to egg production (feeding efficiency, eggs per year, egg size...). Part of that is that the animal only has so much energy to spend, the other is that when breeding for one trait, one invariably tends to neglect other traits.
- bsder 9y agoFemales have less biological variation so fit in better with industrial farming. Females are also more docile and less likely to cause damage to other chickens.
- Falling3 9y agoBroiler chickens aren't kept alive long enough to reach sexual maturity. They live for just 6 weeks, so docility due to sex really isn't a factor.