Lifecycle Of An Intensively Reared Chicken | Food

The Big Food Fight Lifecycle of an intensively reared chicken

Date Published:: 08/01/2008

Most of us pick up our chickens from the supermarket, pre-prepared and wrapped in cellophane, without thinking about the conditions they were raised in. As 95 per cent of the UK's broiler chickens are reared in intensive farms, the chances are it lived like this

3 week old chickens

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3 week old chickens

These chickens are three weeks old. The build-up of faeces can contribute to the strong smell of ammonia in the sheds and result in breast blisters on some animals.

RSPCA 'Paying the Price' pdf; Ellis, Hattie, 'Planet Chicken', London, 2007 (p. 37, 187)