What chicken breed is best for meat?

Answer 1

Broiler chickens are raised for meat...and they put up with a lot of inhumane practices. They are drugged to grow at an abnormally rapid pace which affect their organs and commonly breaks their legs. They are housed in giant sheds with up to 20,000 other chickens, all living in their own waste.

Those are only a couple examples of things they go through.

Please pity these poor birds by going to www.freewebs.com/earlymorningchickens - my site, and clicking on the Chicken Abuse Page.

Also, www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com helps prevent this torture as well.

Thanks.

Answer 2

Many breeds of chickens are raised solely for eggs, such as leghorns and other mediterranian breeds.

Then you have your heavier dual-purpose breeds, which are also used for eggs AND meat. Some of those breeds are Rhode Island red/white, Plymouth rocks, wyandottes, and many others.

Answer 3

The type of chicken usually used for meat is a cornish/rock cross, a mix between a cornish chicken (a very large, muscular chicken with close fitting feathers) and a Plymouth rock chicken (an almost as large, also muscular chicken and yellow skin which is desired for meat). This cross is important because it bares confinement well (we all know the conditions meat chickens are kept in) and is very bulky and strong. Cornish chickens are in fact so oddly-shaped for meat, they have troubles mating and walking. The main reason Plymouth rocks are used in meat chickens is so they can reproduce fast and easily. Kelley Trinallin

Answer 4

There are many breeds that are raised only for the purpose of eggs. The individual types are production and Mediterranean. The latter of the two consists of a group of breeds accepted into the APA and is derived from their origin; production birds aren't accepted, because they are hybrids meant for egg production. These are often grouped together to form a coined term, "Layers", consisting of any breed/type used for eggs ONLY.

The most notable of the Mediterranean breeds is the Leghorn. The two most notable production "breeds" are Sex Links (black, red, amber) and Production Reds (often misleadingly called Rhode Island Reds).

However, many people buy Dual Purpose breeds only for egglaying, and never use them as meat birds. The most notable egglayers in this category are Plymouth Rocks, TRUE Rhode Island Red, Australorps, Delaware, New Hampshire, Sussex, and occasionally Wyandottes.

In North America the three most popular breeds used in large commercial facilities are various cross breeds of White Leghorn and Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Rock.

Answer 5

I recently acquired a chicken that fell off of a chicken truck. I did my research and discovered that I had a broiler chicken on my hands.

Answer 6

Chickens grown for meat are usually called "fancy poultry" -I hope I helped. =]

Answer 7

Many different breeds of chickens are raised for their eggs. Some, like Orpingtons, are raised for both meat and eggs while others. such as the leghorn, are primarily used for eggs only.

Answer 8

Conchins and American-Cornish mixes are good meat chickens

Answer 9

Broiler