So many chickens in the world. Do you think they are cloned for consumption??!
So many chickens in the world. Do you think they are cloned for consumption??
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No. Chickens are NOT cloned for consumption. Chickens are one of the easiest of the farm animals to raise and breed. Plus, we can actually store a bunch of hatching eggs for up to 10-14 days and then set all those eggs at one time. It would be a lot more expensive if there was cloning involved.
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poultry scientist
No. Definitely not.
they don't have to clone they multiply pretty quick
Have you ever seen the chicken farms in OK and AK? You would sure think they are cloned since there are probably a million in a barn like space. Those poor animals. I'm lucky enough to live in WI and know people that have "happy" chickens.
No. They're too easy to breed and too expensive to clone.
They may clone people's beloved pets, a multi-million dollar racehorce, or rare animal in danger of becoming extinct. But it'll be a long time before they clone common food animals.
(BTW, I have no problem with eating cloned animal, although I oppose GM plant foods--the reason is, w/ cloning you're only duplicating genes that are native to the animal (or plant) in question; the purpose of GM foods is to introduce genes that are NOT native to the plant, and we don't know the long-term consequences of that.)
Why would anyone bother with going to all the work of cloning chickens. The cost would be prohibitive. It is easier and cheaper to do it the old fashioned way. (You know . . . when a mommy and daddy chicken love each other very much . . .)!