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[2] [3] Chickens raised for eggs are known as layers, while chickens raised for meat are called broilers. [4] In the United States, the national organization overseeing poultry production is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the UK, the national organisation is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
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]
Chickens in multiple-occupancy battery cages Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg -laying hens . The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery .
You've probably heard about female chickens being kept in poor conditions, laying eggs in cages too small for them, but the male chicks face something else. Egg producers pledge to stop grinding ...
Chickens feeding on grain. Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.
The great majority of laying birds used for egg production are chickens. Methods for keeping layers range from free-range systems, where the birds can roam as they will but are housed at night for their own protection, through semi-intensive systems where they are housed in barns and have perches, litter and some freedom of movement, to ...
Broiler breeder farms raise parent stock which produce fertilized eggs. A broiler hatching egg is never sold at stores and is not meant for human consumption. [9] The males and females are separate genetic lines or breeds, so that each line can be selected for optimal traits for productivity in either females or males, rather than a single line in which a compromise is reached between female ...
A Lohmann Brown hen. The Lohmann Brown is a brown variety of chicken, specifically bred for egg-laying purposes.It is a crossbred line [1] and is selectively bred from lines of the Rhode Island breed. [2]