There are different chicken breeds that have been developed for meat production, and their size is a testament to this.
Broiler is a fattening chicken specie that’s known for meat for ages, and it’s my pleasure to hint you on some background of this chicken specie.
How short is the life of a broiler?
A broiler chicken only lives between 28 and 42 days according to farmpally. Exactly how long depends on the type of fattening.
There is short fattening for grilled chickens at 28 to 30 days, medium-long fattening for chicken parts at 32 to 35 days and long fattening for chicken breasts at 38 to 42 days.
The animals would not last longer than 42 days under this rapid fattening, says the working group on rural agriculture (AbL).
A longer fattening would have bad consequences: The broilers could no longer hold their ground due to the strong imbalance – and would fall over.
This could cause broken bones and would also disrupt the animal’s circulatory system so much that they would hardly be able to survive.
So the chickens would die before they got to the slaughterhouse, chaktty said.
Where do the broilers actually come from?
The life of a broiler begins in a hatchery. There the fertilized eggs arrive from specialized laying hen farms.
In the hatcheries, broken or dirty eggs are first sorted out from this delivery.
Eggs that survive this inspection are placed in a fully automatic pre-incubator for 18 days.
This rotates the eggs every hour, simulating the natural behavior of a hen in the coop.
Once the eggs are hatched, the chicks are marketed as a day old broiler chicks to poultry farmers.
What about the parents of the broilers?
The eggs that come to a hatchery don’t come from normal laying hens because they don’t produce enough meat.
They come from a special race. In order to meet the high demand for chicken meat, there are special animals that provide supplies for fattening.
The laying performance of these animals is 185 eggs per laying period, i.e. 60 percent of a laying hen,” says Professor Dirk Hinrichs, an agricultural scientist at Farm pally, with a focus on livestock from Berlin’s Humboldt University.
What is the difference between broilers and laying hens?
Broilers produce meat and laying hens produce our eggs. This is a completely different breed that puts on much less meat.
Laying hens end up as soup chickens mainlybecause they are quite a bit thinner.
It wouldn’t be worth processing your meat any further.
The male animals of the laying hen breed are worthless for the industry and are usually killed immediately after hatching – mostly shredded. In total, there are 42 million male chicks in the US every year.
The federal government promises an end and is funding science projects worth 6.5 million euros.
Several teams of scientists are working independently on different methods.
The common idea: if it is a male, it will not be incubated any further.
Which chicken parts end up in the supermarket?
According to trade experts, the breast fillet is the most popular part of the Germans.
Thighs and chicken wings follow. Up until the 1990s, whole fattening animals – later grilled chickens – were bred in the US, says Henning Pieper from the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture.
However, the trend in the industry is to offer the broiler in individual pieces
