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Post by Chickenman on May 7, 2022 5:05:51 GMT 1
I am lucky enough to be able to buy slow-grown chicken from my local supermarket and to me it definitely tastes better. Some people probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference but there definitely is. The breasts are much lighter in colour, almost white and i'd say the flavour is alot tastier.   |
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Post by Silver on May 7, 2022 11:14:07 GMT 1
Modern meat chickens go to slaughter at only 6-8 weeks old. It was not like that in earlier times. All that matters now is $$$.
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Post by Silver on May 7, 2022 11:17:40 GMT 1
If it takes 10 weeks for chicks to reach market weight you can raise 5 lots of chicks for slaughter per year. But at 6.5 weeks you can raise 8 lots per year. And you only need to feed them for 6.5 weeks. More $$$
The flavor suffers, but flavor is of no concern when $$$ are the only goal.
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Post by Silver on May 7, 2022 11:35:48 GMT 1
The breasts on modern meat chickens are so massively huge that if you went more than an extreme of about 8 weeks to get them to slaughter, a high percentage will begin to have broken legs. As it is now, I'm already seeing broken legs more often in the chicken I buy at the supermarkets. At some juncture they can't hold up their own breast weight while standing on their legs, which begin to break. But chickens with broken legs are legal to market.
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Post by Chickenman on May 7, 2022 12:08:07 GMT 1
Yep, not a fan of the modern chicken, to me it's like a tofu almost. These slow grown breasts are alot smaller and definitely have more flavour imo.
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