• @[email protected]
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    65 months ago

    In this case it’s because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

    The simple fact is that people don’t want to buy that, so it’d just be wasteful to grow them out.

    • @Tyfud
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      15 months ago

      Right. So cost savings.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Not mostly, mostly consumer preferences. You wouldn’t be able to sell them and it’d just be wasteful

    • @John_McMurray
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      5 months ago

      That’s a lie. Old chickens are tough, usually only egg laying breeds get old. “Egg laying” varieties are not tough at basic maturity. Taste better too, than the commercial meat breeds. I’m specifically getting chicken wings from egg laying breeds because the skin is thicker and crisps up better than fast growth meat breeds (run a bar)