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A wild bird will have all dark meat. A chicken is a bird that has been domesticated and taken care of for centuries. Most wild birds fly. A chicken does not.
Muscles are the "meat" of an animal. The more a muscle works the darker it gets. This is due to striations or sarcomere in the muscle cell that is responsible for contracting or bunching up the muscle. More work means more sarcomers means darker muscle.
Chicken legs and thighs are dark meat. This is because the legs and thighs work to get the bird from place to place. Work means darker meat.
Chicken breast and wings are light meat. Chickens don't fly because the breast is too bit, it interfers with the wing movement and there really is no need to fly since the bird is taken care of by humans. Since the wings and breast don't do much work, they are lighter in color and thus light meat.
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Does dark meat have more flavor then white meat?
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What pieces of a chicken are dark meat?
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How many fowl have both white and dark meat?
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white meat
Does a mourning dove have white meat or dark meat?
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Is the following a true statement Breast white meat leg dark meat thigh dark meat wing white meat?
yes
