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Urban keeping of chickens as pets, for eggs, meat, or for eating pests is popular in urban and suburban areas.Some people sell the eggs for side income.. Keeping chickens in an urban environment is a type of urban agriculture, important in the local food movement, which is the growing practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around a village, town or city. [1]
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Before this, chickens did not thrive during the winter due to lack of sunlight, and egg production, incubation, and meat production in the off-season were all very difficult, making poultry a seasonal and expensive proposition. Year-round production lowered costs, especially for broilers. Artificial daylight supplementation also started being used.
Meat chickens, commonly called broilers, are floor-raised on litter such as wood shavings, peanut shells, and rice hulls, indoors in climate-controlled housing. Under modern farming methods, meat chickens reared indoors reach slaughter weight at 5 to 9 weeks of age, as they have been selectively bred to do so. In the first week of a broiler's ...
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On average, a new broiler house is about 500 feet long by 44 feet wide and costs about $200,000 equipped. [33] When the birds are full-grown, they are caught (perhaps with a chicken harvester) placed in crates, and transported by truck to a processing plant. [citation needed] Broiler chickens kept outside near a chicken shop in India
The development of modern animal agriculture has increased the efficiency of raising meat and dairy products. Improvements in animal breeding , mechanical innovations, and the introduction of specially formulated feeds (as well as animal pharmaceuticals ) have contributed to the decrease in cost of animal products to consumers. [ 39 ]