The first time I got chickens
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Re: The first time I got chickens
@WLLady Why are meat chickens that different? Our chickens are active all day long looking for food and they don't eat poo.
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Re: The first time I got chickens
I managed to get gifted our meat chickens as eggs from a school project that didn't happen. They didn't want to kill them so i took them to incubate them (they were day 10 already). These i think were the commercial fast growing meat chickens. The newer types of meat chickens are so much better-they are more active and a bit more feathered etc. Mine grew so fast they were literally processing size in 12 weeks. it was unbelievable. Mine didn't eat poo, but they sure produced it, and it was greasy poo too...and smelled completely different than regular non-meat chickens. I think these were selectively bred for the commercial market, to grow as fast as possible on as little feed as possible and be as easy as possible to pluck. these chickens literally had 4 rows of feathers, 1 down each breast and 2 down the back. i've never seen poultry like it before, or since.
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