A broiler is a chicken raised primarily for meat, as opposed to a one raised to produce eggs (called a Layer within the industry as it lays eggs). Binomial name Gallus gallus A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ... Meat is animal tissue (mainly muscle) used as food. ... A carton of free-range chicken eggs Ostrich egg Bird eggs are a common food source. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ...
The broiler is typically a third generation offspring. Select strains of grandparents produce parents known as pullets which lay the egg from which the broiler is hatched. The broiler is bred in a highly controlled environment along with thousands of other broiler chicks. It is given unrestricted access to a special diet of high protein feed delivered via an automated feeding system. This is combined with artificial lighting conditions to stimulate growth and thus the desired body weight is achieved in 4 - 8 weeks, depending on the approximate body weight required by the processing plant. After processing, the poultry is delivered as fresh or frozen chicken to the stores and supermarkets. A pullet is a young chicken, more specifically a hen at least 20-weeks-old which has begun to lay eggs but has not yet moulted. ...
The term is widely known in North America but not elsewhere in the English speaking world. The term broiler chicken is very widely used in urban Indian cities, as it was in the former German Democratic Republic and still nowadays in some eastern parts of Germany. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... The term Anglosphere describes a certain group of English-speaking countries. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist country that existed from 1949 to 1990. ...
Broilers are hatched from eggs laid by breeding stock (broiler breeders).
Broilers should not be exposed to strong, direct sunlight or hot humid conditions which could cause heat stress and lead to death.
Standard intensively farmed broilerchickens are reared to their slaughter weight of around 1.8 to 3 kg within just 6 weeks of being hatched (chickens are normally fully grown by 5-6 months).
First is the live sales segment, comprised of the accredited viajeros (live birds salesmen) who haul the broilers from the company's farms for delivery to their customers in the wet markets, either live or dressed.
The broilers that are not harvested for live sales are dressed at the company's dressing plants and allocated for delivery to the three other segments that integrators cater to: the supermarkets, the wet markets and HRI accounts.
The small and medium-scale broiler producers sell directly to the live chicken traders or viajeros who buy the broiler from the farm and pass it on either live or dressed to retailers in the wet market, restaurants and carinderias.
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