Posted by Larry Hoover on November 27, 2004, at 15:13:54
In reply to --again-Larry Hoover, posted by Gabbix2 on November 27, 2004, at 14:44:03
> > > You can also call a poultry farm.. I did.
> >
> > I've been to many poultry farms over the years...chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, exotics. No force-feeding. It's just not necessary, unless you want the bird to get that fat liver thing happening.
> >
> > Lar
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> I don't think too many factory broiler chicken
> farms are places that you'd end up in, many don't even let people in, however according
> to ... soilassociation.org.uk/web/sa: A link I accessed last night but cannot access today quote: *The study by CWF found that broiler chickens are force fed so they grow faster,
> live in extremely cramped conditions and lack any exercise*
>
> According to my phone call to find out local
> broiler chicken feeding methods 4/5 use force feeding.
>
> According to P.E.T.A magazine December 1995 (mine)
> Farm rescued chickens had to be re-taught how to eat because they had become accustomed only to forced feeding.Broiler chicken farms hire chicken catchers. Seven to a crate (to be loaded on a truck). Been there, done that. I do know what equipment is present, as chickens are in different stages of growth in different areas of the same farms. The chickens (and turkeys, too) are not force-fed, no matter how many PETA articles suggest otherwise. They are fed ad libitum, from centralized feeders. The confined birds may have no clue that food comes from anything other than one of those mechanized troughs, so they may not have any idea how to peck and scratch outdoors, but that's quite a different issue.
Anyway, I've wasted enough energy on this.
Lar
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