Woody Breasts

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:33 am

http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/03/muscl ... ckens.html#

Yuck!!!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:59 am

Ditto..but thats what greed gets yah...kinda like silicone in the human world...oops!!!

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:01 am

The meat chicken has finally reached it's maximum physiological ability to supply oxygen to that freakish breast. Hopefully breeders will go back to producing a more humane broiler chicken.

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:10 am

TomK wrote:QR_BBPOST Ditto..but thats what greed gets yah...kinda like silicone in the human world...oops!!!

I can't seem to make the connection to the silicone world, but yes, when we over breed for a specific trait it's only natural to have consequences, even if not immediate

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 10:38 am

iv heard about this before. they should just go back a few generations and stop the manipulation.

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:17 pm

I don't like white meat anyway as most of the time I find it "woody". I like the dark meat. They need to stop messing around with them and just get them back to what they used to be before the Frankenchickens. I know this year any extra cockerels that I raise that don't find homes will be going in my freezer. Although I have a friend who raises meat birds and they are delish, even the white meat.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:23 pm

ya I dont think there is anything wrong with the idea of a marketable bird at 6-8 weeks heck thats awesome! but they have to draw a line somewhere....

ross · Post by **ross** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:29 pm

The line will be drawn when folks stop buying them . Simple . Luck

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:32 pm

very true Ross... and that will never happen. heck we buy them if they fit in the budget... dead of course n sometimes ready to serve. tasty!

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:37 pm

Are they called Frankenchickens because of Frankenstein?

I saw some at the auction last week and it put me off buying and raising them. I can't fix genetics and I sure as heck couldn't eat something from my backyard that looks like that. Regardless of the 'suppose too' factor. I can't unsee what I saw.