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Production of chicken meat worldwide, by country in 2021. The modern chicken is a descendant of red junglefowl hybrids along with the grey junglefowl first raised thousands of years ago in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. [6] Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. [7]
The quantity of feed, and the nutritional requirements of the feed, depend on the weight and age of the poultry, their rate of growth, their rate of egg production, the weather (cold or wet weather causes higher energy expenditure), and the amount of nutrition the poultry obtain from foraging. This results in a wide variety of feed formulations.
Poultry meat and eggs provide nutritionally beneficial food containing protein of high quality. This is accompanied by low levels of fat which have a favourable mix of fatty acids. [70] Chicken meat contains about two to three times as much polyunsaturated fat as most types of red meat when measured by weight. [71]
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The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
The trend towards selling meat in pre-packaged cuts has increased the demand for larger breeds of cattle, better suited to producing such cuts. [9] Animals not previously exploited for their meat are now being farmed, including mammals such as antelope , zebra, water buffalo and camel, [ 9 ] as well as non-mammals, such as crocodile, emu and ...
Spaghetti meat chicken has been shown to have less protein and more fat than unaffected poultry. Some studies have also found that affected chickens have a higher rate of "drip loss," meaning more ...
In 1986, a master's thesis study in the Philippines compared the effects of using various fertilizers to enhance milkfish production in brackish water ponds. [7] The study compared the use of using chicken manure only, cow manure only, 16-20-0 fertilizer only, a mixture of cow manure and 16-20-0 fertilizer, a mixture of chicken manure and 16-20-0 fertilizer, and a control group that used no ...