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>Male chicks don’t grow fast enough to justify the cost of feeding them up for meat. Why is this? Logically that would mean that either 1) females grow faster
by gpvos 6y ago
>Male chicks don’t grow fast enough to justify the cost of feeding them up for meat.
Why is this? Logically that would mean that either 1) females grow faster than males, or 2) all chickens that are used for meat are first used for laying eggs, because that's the only economic way. I'm fairly sure that neither is the case.
- chongli 6y agoChickens raised for meat are different breeds from chickens raised for laying eggs. Male chicks of the egg-laying variety are good for neither meat nor eggs (being unable to lay them).
- samatman 6y agoNeither is correct. Actual answer is: commercially, meat chickens and egg chickens are completely different breeds. In "broiler" chickens, they put on muscle at an astonishing rate; for laying chickens, they output eggs prodigiously. The male laying chicks grow so slowly, with a small ultimate body size, as to be economically uncompetitive with broilers.