Industrial chicken (live)

Industrial chicken (live)

Industrial broilers or industrially raised chickens are chickens that are raised in concentrated industrial processes, usually they are meat chickens and are raised, cared for, and fattened to prepare for meat consumption. The process of producing chicken meat is carried out according to an industrial chain and is a link in the supply chain of broiler chickens from selecting breeds, brooding chickens to butchering chickens, distributing and supplying to consumers. In a broader sense, it also refers to raising chickens for eggs with an increasingly deep level of agricultural industrialization. In addition, industrial chickens are used to distinguish them from local chickens, domestic chickens raised in the form of free-range or other traditional free-range forms.

Characteristics

Meat chickens are often well-proportioned, deep-chested, strong-legged, and have a square or rectangular cross-section. Egg-specialized chickens have a slim structure and a triangular cross-section. The size of the dimensions is correlated with the productivity of Broiler chickens, the size of the chest angle, leg length, thigh length and leg diameter are correlated with body mass.

Foreign breeds of chickens, such as Tam Hoang chickens, Dot Ri chickens, Leghorn chickens, Owl-feathered chickens are raised in industrial ways, meaning they do not have to forage but have ready-made food for them, with many synthetic nutrients, they eat as they like, to grow quickly, they just eat to grow. These chicken breeds have appeared in Vietnam for quite a long time, but local consumers do not like them because their meat is soft and bland, only the thighs are delicious when fried until golden brown, while industrial chickens are cooked in jelly or fried, but boiled, they are dry[2].

About the breed

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The term industrial chicken is not a biological term to refer to a species of chicken or an agricultural term to refer to a breed of chicken, a line of chicken, or a certain breed of chicken. Industrial chicken is a general term for chickens raised in an industrial manner. Although there is no convention to determine which breed of chicken is “industrial chicken”, however, through farming practices, based on the performance, efficiency of farming, the purpose and objectives of chicken farming, the selection of chicken species for industrial farming tends to emphasize high-yield chicken breeds, capable of high meat productivity (chickens specializing in meat, super meat chickens) or chickens that mature early and have high egg production (chickens specializing in eggs, super eggs). These chicken breeds have the common characteristics of early maturity, early maturity, good growth and some breeds have the ability to adapt to the climatic conditions of the region where they are raised. Due to the high level of variation in the chicken genome, the industry has not yet reached the biological limit for improving performance. Typically, the following breeds are considered high-yielding and are raised industrially around the world:

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In some places, there are still opinions and concepts about the nutritional value of industrial chickens in relation to domestic chickens or chickens raised in the form of free-range or naturally raised, and the issue of eating industrial chickens is better than free-range chickens. In East Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Malaysia, when the economy develops and incomes increase, people switch to eating high-quality native chickens instead of eating industrial chickens

In Vietnam, there are different concepts about the nutritional value of domestic chickens compared to industrial chickens, the nutritional value of rare chickens is better than that of common chickens, and the price of rare chickens is very expensive. Most Vietnamese people still think that eating chickens raised naturally and freely in the garden, only eating rice, will be more delicious and nutritious than chickens raised industrially (eating mixed bran).

While developed countries often eat industrial chicken and mainly eat the chicken breast, Vietnamese people often criticize industrial chicken for being soft, mushy, bland and do not eat the breast. In terms of nutrition, chicken meat has the same value. In terms of nutrition, there is no difference between precious chicken and ordinary chicken. Delicious is in terms of taste, but in terms of nutrition, the nutritional composition and protein content of precious chicken, or domestic chicken and industrial chicken are equivalent[4]. Industrially raised chickens are fed synthetic feed, which has been carefully researched, so the nutritional content in the meat is stable. The reason why industrial chicken meat is softer than naturally raised chicken is because of the same mass and the age of industrial chickens is younger. Moreover, about 2 weeks before selling, if the breeder knows how to reduce some substances in the feed (vitamins, protein…), the chicken meat will be more fragrant