- A broiler is a type of chicken
raised specifically for meat production.
- Modern commercial broilers,
typically known as Cornish crosses or Cornish-
Rocks are specially bred for large scale,
efficient meat production and grow much faster than egg or
traditional dual purpose breeds.
- They are noted for having very
fast growth rates, a high feed conversion ratio, and low levels of
activity.
- Broilers often reach a harvest
weight of
4-5 pounds dressed in only five weeks.
- They have white feathers and
yellowish skin.
- This cross is also favorable for
meat production because it lacks the typical "hair" which many
breeds have that necessitates singeing after plucking.
- Both male and female broilers are
slaughtered for their meat.
- In 2003, approximately 42 billion
broilers were produced, 80% of which were produced by four
companies: Aviagen, Cobb- Vantress, Hubbard Farms, and Hybro.
- A Swedish study by SLU Skara
(Swedish farming university) revealed that only 1/3 of studied
broiler chickens that were about to be slaughtered were healthy.
- Additionally, it is very inactive
and as a result is a poor forager, prone to predation, and is
generally not suited to small free range homestead flocks.
- If the litter in the pen is not
properly managed to prevent birds from standing and resting in their
feces, painful hock burns and foot ulcerations and blisters can
occur.
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Broiler Chicken
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General Facts
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Broilers
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Culinary Uses
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Meat
type Chickens - Broilers
Fact Sheet
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Broiler Chicken in U.K
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Chicken fact sheet
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Chicken myths
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Farming facts
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Broiler Chickens
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Poultry
Report
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Dermal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in
Broiler Chickens
In Saskatchewan
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Effect of probiotic (Saccharomyces
cerevisiae) on performance of broiler
chicks
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The truth about chicken bred for meat
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Chicken – broilers test report
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The Welfare of Broiler Chickens
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Overview of the World Broiler Industry:
Implications for the Philippines
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Feeding the Factory Farm:
Implicit Subsidies to the Broiler Chicken Industry
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Welfare Issues with
Conventional Manual Catching of
Broiler Chickens and Turkeys
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Poultry Broiler Farming
- Victorian code for Best practice
broiler Chicken farms
- Risk assessment of Campylobacter
spp. In Broiler chickens
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Animal welfare (broiler chickens: fully housed) code of
welfare 2002
- Poultry production in America
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Project report for a broiler poultry
farm (500 birds a week)
Market
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Assessment of the Nigerian poultry market chain to improve
biosecurity
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Marketing Plan
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Raising chicken and turkey broilers in Canada
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Small-scale poultry production in peri-urban areas in Ghana
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Broiler Industry in India
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Suppliers of Broiler Chicken
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Broiler Chicken - Suppliers
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Patents
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compound feed for a broiler chicken
- Broiler
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vaccine
- Broiler apparatus
- Rotisserie broiler
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- Continuously operating revolving
broiler
- Broiler rearing unit
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Company from Coimbatore
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The Broiler Project
Farming
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