chinken farms are wrong your thourghts?!

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Cornish Cross are the industry standard for meat birds in the United States. I recently mentioned I had switched to Freedom Ranger chickens and had several people ask why.

Cornish Cross birds are a lazy bird by nature with an insatiable appetite.

They basically sit, eat, and get bigger. These are admiral traits if the only goal is to produce a bird that grows very rapidly and produces a lot of breast meat.

However, if you sit back and observe this bird for very long you realize these cleverly select traits come with a price.

Research shows that these birds can gain weight at a rate faster than their skeletal system can bear.

This shows up as lameness and even broken legs. Another trait of these birds is they suffer heart failure.

You go to tend the birds, and find one stone dead for no apparent reason. More than likely it suffered heart failure.

Because they are so selectively bred for certain traits it can lead to a compromised immune system.

They are a fragile bird that was designed for huge agri-business to stuff in a confinement barn and feed sub therapeutic antibiotics to keep them healthy.

The hatchery told me to limit feed them so as to slow the growth rate down and help curb these health issues.

I did limit their intake of feed, and to a large degree it worked. But I came to the conclusion you were basically starving them to slow them down!

They are genetically designed to have an insatiable appetite. I raise Tamworth pigs on pasture and these birds make them look polite when it comes to feeding if they have ran out of feed for any length of time…even on grass.

Which brings up another observation: Freedom Ranger chickens are a far more aggressive forager of green material then Cornish Cross.

One of the health benefits touted by pastured poultry farmers is the opportunity for the birds to graze on green grass and bugs.

It made sense to me to use a bird that gets the most out the environment in which you raise it. Cornish birds were designed as an inside bird with no thought of foraging, that burns calories!

Contrast that with birds from the Label Rouge program in France (such as Freedom Rangers) and you see some distinct differences.



* They are a healthy robust bird
* Freedom Rangers grow slower without the problems associated with Cornish Cross.
* They are much more active foragers.
* Customers in taste test when compared to the Cornish Cross prefer Freedom Ranger.

I chose Freedom Rangers because after examining the facts I felt they were better suited to my model of farming and welfare standards.

Why take a bird that was bred for big business and put it in an environment that it was never designed for?

I realize pastured poultry farmers while minimizing the problems outlined here can raise Cornish Cross birds.

i wouldnt be a vegetarian if i didnt think so. How would you like to be hung upside down have your legs broken, your throat slit, and then put in scalding hot water.

we need more farms like a chick described since there will never not be people who eat meat. and factory farms are wrong in so many ways but most of our meat,fish,poultry etc comes from them anyway.

Yes they are wrong as the chicken cannot display their natural bahaviour such as running free and pecking at the ground. In NZ battery hens are now illegal and this is a good thing. The cost of eggs will increase due to this but hey, it is worth it and I fully support this. Chicken farms are VERY cruel.

Chickens are abused and neglected, thousands of them get crammed into large sheds and lead a short miserable life, they never see daylight or run around freely. They trample on each other in their attempt to get food and many are left with broken limbs that are left untreated. Chickens are treated cruelly by the staff and are only seen as a commodity to make vast amounts of money.

I don't know what a chinken is but if you mean chicken, it depends on the nature of the farm. I have a small scale chicken farm where I raise meat and egg chickens. The conditions are excellent (clean, good food, fresh water, plenty of air circulation and free ranging). One bad farm doesn't spoil the whole lot.

Apparently being a vegetarian affects one's spelling over time. But to answer the question, There are a lot of two headed chickens at Tysons Chicken in Arkansas. I'm okay with chicken farms, but my friend became a vegetarian after seeing the Two headed chickens.

depends on the treatment of the chickens..
When I was little.. we let our chicken roam around freely all about the farm.. they came and went here and there. ate bugs, seeds, grass, etc and they were "happy" chickens.. At night we put them up in their chicken coop to keep the foxes away...
Their eggs were the largest and brightest orange you've ever seen.. real healthy...

If you mean the huge chicken factories they call farms and are really huge warehouses with no windows where chickens are raised in cramped nasty conditions yes they are wrong. I avoid chicken meat and buy free range eggs whenever possible.

It depends on how humanely the animals are treated. Not just for their sakes, but for ours as well considering the chemicals, additives, unsanitary conditions of some farms.

I do not think they are as wrong as your spelling.

^ Redneck

as long its not a full blown slaughter house then im OK AKA. free range.

Yes that s why I eat Squirrel Florentine by Recipes gMarie Cooking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn0ipFIqJ2w

No they're not. It's the same thing God does with humans. Makes a whole bunch of them, fattens them up, and then when they die, he tosses them down into the fire.