Give me the run down on heirloom/heritage chickens.
Do they really taste that much better? Are they really hard to raise? What does real chicken taste like?
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You're not supposed to eat them. You're supposed to pass them on to your children.
They taste better because chickens are meant to be omnivorous. They're supposed to eat bugs, snakes, etc as well as forage for herbs. Chickens that are raised in factories eat exclusively vegetarian diets. You can always tell the difference by the color of the yolk (should be a deep orange) and the consistency (should stick to your plate as opposed to being runny and watery). And yes, the flavor of the eggs is out of this world and makes it hard to look back at the shit eggs we typically eat
>You can always tell the difference by the color of the yolk
they can change that with dye in their food, so its not an easy way to tell egg quality
hmmm
As if every egg from the same box would be identical... What a moronic pic.
can it, shart
When I can't get fresh eggs from my go-to, I buy the Happy Eggs. They are better than some I have gotten from the farmer's market. The feed is what makes all of the difference-and it is a huge difference.
They speak ancient dialects.
I think chickens are cute
theyre food
Food can be cute. I love veal sausages and I like cows.
I don't mind modern chickens uncute either. Their faces are cute in a weird way
Even modern chickens? I think they're the physical embodiment of the hubris of mankind.
heckin chonkers
it's not even fat, it's like a bunch of Hafthor Bjornssons of chicken-kind
>hubris of mankind
kys uncle ted
Chicken is chicken is chicken. Anyone telling you differently is a moron tastelet
a calorie is a calorie a chicken is a chicken a seed is a seed. there is no such thing as "heritage", we're all just atoms in space, science wills it. CHUD.
It's a meme. People, who raise chickens for themself, just don't butcher them after 2 months of living so their meat has a stronger flavour. Buy a soup chicken from a supermarket and you will have the same effect.
I read it here
https://pastebin.com/WgwxSRzp
>Chicken of the 1940s was nothing like it is today. It was expensive by modern standards, and since chickens were often the by-product of the egg industry, they came in a range of sizes. There were broiler chickens, which were young and tiny — some weighed in at just a pound and a half — and so tender you could cook them under a scorching-hot broiler. Next came fryers, which were a bit bigger and less tender, but still small. After fryers came roasters, and last came “fowl” — old hens that were so tough, they could be used only in soups and stews.
>If a quick and easy Tuesday night dinner was what you had in mind, you needed a broiler or a fryer. You might even need two. And it was going to cost you.
>What this country really needs, Pierce thought, is a steady supply of tender, large-breasted chickens. So A&P put up $10,000 in prize money and sent wax models of perfect-looking chickens around the country. Whoever could raise the flock of chickens that grew the fastest and looked most like the wax model stood to make quite a bit of money.
>In 1946 and 1947, regional Chicken of Tomorrow contests were held. The cream of that group was invited to compete in the national event in 1948, which is how 31,680 eggs from 25 different states found their way to a hatchery in Maryland. Once hatched, the chicks were raised in identical pens and fed a secret diet that contained a minimum of 20 percent protein, 3.5 percent fat and 7 percent fiber.
>After 12 weeks and two days, the chickens crossed the metaphorical finish line — they were slaughtered.
I don't get if the chickens are selectively bred to balloon up and thus breed matters, or if it's purely just their food.
>I don't get if the chickens are selectively bred to balloon up and thus breed matters, or if it's purely just their food.
Both.
Breed is mostly what makes them big. Food is mostly what makes them grow fast. A chicken from your market is usually 2-3 weeks old. They often have broken legs because of their own weight since bones don't grow as fast as their bodies. If you raise a chicken by yourself, it won't get so big so fast unless you feed it the same shit.
>A chicken from your market is usually 2-3 weeks old. They often have broken legs because of their own weight since bones don't grow as fast as their bodies.
As long as it’s real in your head, anon.
Good job fighting online disinformation, son. These commies are trying to discredit and disgrace proud American farmers.
>say something stupid
>have it pointed out
>then just turn silly
Okay, anon.
i inspect industrial farms for the government for a living and ive never seen anything like this
>i've never encountered it so it doesn't happen!
peak Culinalynoid midwittery
>I’ve never encountered it either but hey look at this infographic!
Lol
its exceedingly rare
maybe what youd see in some underground amish brood facility but filthy conditions and dying birds are exactly what we look for
>"i've never seen it happen!"
>"w-well, it's just rare, that's all..."
remember all the drama that happened over covid19?
the globohomosexual governement takes livestock and crop health 2000x more seriously than that and anyone selling livestock and crops on any taxable and/or international level is subject to serious government oversight and there is no chance any facility full of birds in filthy cages or crippled, diseased birds wont be shut down and their entire harvest destroyed at an uninsurable loss
you obviously dont understand this business
farmers have a serious financial interest in keeping their stock healthy wihtout even considering animal welfare
also use your brain
chicken is a fairly low margin crop and prices depend on the superficial health and cleanliness of the birds so farmers have every reason to keep them superficially clean and healthy
Just ignore the yearly outbreaks os salmonella, listeria, ect from industry farmed chicken.
link a recent disease outbreak caused by factory farmed chicken
If 2 months ago count as recent:
https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-prin-32-2022
Not in the US though, but still a "civilized" country.
When I'm driving in the morning, I am sometimes behind these trucks that are piled with crates and the chickens stuffed into the crates and they only have spaces that are pretty small, like about the length of my hand in height. They look pretty sad. There's always a bunch of feathers flying off the trucks.
By trucks I meant, like pickup trucks btw. If you thought I was talking about like 18 wheelers or something.
They're usually 42 days (6 weeks) old when slaughtered. That doesn't make it any better, but 2 weeks is far from reality yet. The part about their legs is true though.
Lmfao, nice fake caption, you tard. Those are the same chicken at different points of its life, not different chickens from decades apart.
the whole point of heritage breed anything is that theyre adapted to your specific needs and climate
you should talk to your chicken raising neigbors and see what kind of chickens theyre producing
im working with some of my neighbors trading chicks and roosters to develop good layers that tolerate east coast winters and produce decent meat
we have the first 2 down pretty good so were mostly focusing on decent meat now, we want them to get plump and tasty but not grow too fast like factory chickens or slow their egg production too much
like something 75% egg/ 25% broiler
its not the breed, its simply the natural vs artificial living. There is a great difference in taste and textures.
It tastes like a meme that you overpaid for.
Well those ancient chickens can't be raised in cages or in high density. So they get less stress, more free air, and more walkies. This is why their meat tastes better and has better quality.