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What is the difference between laying chickens and meat chickens?
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∙ 11y ago
Chickens only lay eggs. Baby chickens (chicks) hatch from those eggs and grow up. If the eggs are not fertilized, however, then they will not hatch. Those are the ones that are eaten.
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What purpose do wyandotte chickens serve?
They serve as both egg-laying and meat chickens pretty well.
Can a chicken be used for laying eggs and for meat?
Most chickens are used for both egg laying and meat. A chicken lays the most year in her first year of egg laying. After two years, she is finished with her job of egg laying and is sent to the grocery store for someone to eat.
How long do intensively farmed chickens live?
Intensively farmed chickens live for about a year if they are laying hens. Intensively farmed meat birds live for as little as 39 days.
What chickens are keeped for farming?
For egg laying, Rhodeisland, wyandotte, orpingtons, buck-eye, andmany others. for meat, mostlywhite leghorn.
What is the difference between grower feed and layer feed?
grower feeds are the one fed for the meat purpose and layer feed are fed for laying eggs
Why don't meat king chickens lay eggs?
Simple logic: Meat queen chickens lay eggs; meat king chickens lay meat queen chickens.
It does it mean raising chickens for eggs or broilers.?
Chickens raised for broilers are processed at about 18 weeks old and never lay an egg. They are for meat only. Raising chickens for eggs means to feed them special diets to maximize egg production, these birds are usually kept for 18 to 24 months and then processed for meat after prime egg laying is over.
Are hens that give green eggs good to eat?
Chicken serve a dual purpose: They provide eggs and meat. Realize that the chickens we get in the grocery store are only around 6-8 weeks old. Chickens don't start laying until they are around 6 months old. So, if you are thinking about cooking up old layers, the meat will be tougher than that from young chickens.
What is a type of edible chicken?
All chickens are edible. Some are raised specifically for meat not eggs but even laying chickens can be eaten. Old hens and roosters can be used for food also, they just need special cooking to tenderize the tougher flesh.
What is the difference between meat and food?
Meat is a sub category of food.
How useful are chickens?
Chickens are mostly used for their meat and their eggs.
What is the difference between a meat goat and market goat?
meat goat is wild
