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Chicks at the hardware store are for the eggs
They also sell meat birds in bulk. At least ours all do.
Broilers (chickens for meat) are usually males that just hit maturity. Before they go insane on hormones and fight other males, they become food. That takes around 6-8 weeks. So, at scale like supermarkets, not a ton of food goes into them. Likely more money goes into dressing (slaughter), packaging, and shipping.
Layers (les femmes chickitas) turn out eggs until they don't anymore, and then get turned into dog food or nuggets, or soup. They're turning corn into eggs. My parents have layers and get a 20lb bag of food once a month and get 2-4 eggs a day, depending on the weather.
(les femmes chickitas)
Ah donc nosotros ahora estamos en mélangeant los idiomas simplemente comme ça?
Ohh so male chicks don't go into the food grinder as soon as they are sorted? I saw the popular video years ago, where they inspect the tips of a 3 day old chick and the males went to dog food...
Thank you for your answer!
If you're paying $6 for a chick, you're buying a pet, not a meal.
Before doing this, you may want to checkout the Farming while Beige youtube channel (blackbirdcoop).
In some of his videos he provides a very honest description of the work involved.
What is it now?
Fucking love that guy.
"you just going to throw all that into the dirty ass oil, aren't you?"
DOUBLE-U DOUBLE-U DOUBLE-U DOT
Looney Tunes theme song plays at full volume
What is it now?
:slow grin:
It was more of a curious question. I have no energy to take on this amount of responsibility - but I might in the future. :)
Seriously go follow him, though. He talks a little about chickens. He talks a lot about politics and race. He talks also a lot about other videos. He is absolutely hilarious. Especially note the, uh, discrepancies between what he says and the subtitles. It's an extra layer of humour.
Basically, dude is half black and half native and all bad-ass. He's started a farm in the Richmond, VA area and sells chicken, eggs, and some other stuff, which his staff helps proces and deliver around eastern Virginia. He talks about this, and is quite hilarious.
Not everyone will appreciate him, but I feel like a lot of progressives will. He's a lot of fun.
I checked him out, and he is definitely an acquired taste!
And he again reminded me of how different is the US kitchen to central European one. "And now we have the back part and we will make dog food out of it".
We even had chicken head in regular soups (without the eyes) - and gizzards, liver and even other edible parts should go into the soup. I guess the only part you throw away is the digestion track - everything else is just too yummy....
I will definitely check him out, thank you!
I was excited for the rotisserie function of my new oven until I got to the supermarket and discovered that an uncooked whole chicken costs more than a store-rotisseried whole chicken.
Not surprising :(
Think positive! You can do ducks and turkeys too! Ducks and geese are really tasty!
But you can season the raw one however you want.
Usually store bought raw chicken is way bigger
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I have two chickens and I get approximately two eggs a day. Their food is like, I dunno, $20 a month? Probably not saving money on eggs but they're my pets so that's why I have them. (not eating them, obviously. Or any chickens for that matter.)
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Ask them for a bulk purchase of 100 baby chicks and they’ll reduce the price to maybe $4. Bulk at 10,000 will probably get you to $3. Order several million per year and you’ll get $1 or even lower. Maybe even few cents per chick.
So your rotisserie at $5 still includes a modest to large profit, even including cooking, materials, shipping and handling.
I have no knowledge about the economics of live poultry, but rotisseries are generally loss leaders at grocery stores. They're so commonly loss leaders that they're often cited as one of the primary examples to explain the concept of a loss leader.
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-costco-rotisserie-chicken
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bulk raising chickens in the millions is a totally different cost per animal ( is bulk slaughter and roasting them), than what you pay at a supply store
Also, places like Costco that sell $5 rotisserie chickens take a loss on them. They’re called loss leaders.
They get you in the door, and you end up spending more money on other things.
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