She died writhing with her head under the sofa. As I carried her through the yard to be buried, our other chickens followed behind us, a procession of about twenty feathered souls. June rests deep in the ground now. She was eight months old. Three times her spirit rose above the forces against her.
Broilers are born to die, they stress so easily.
The chickens today have a lot of health problems because they were forced to grow too fast. You'll never get anyone to admit it, but the reason they have leg problems is because their muscular system is growing much faster than their skeletons, so they can't support their own weight. Everyone in the industry know this for a fact, but no one talks about it. With the way the industry is, as long as they can get the chicken to the processing plant, they don't care if one of their feet rots off, as long as they make it to the plant to be slaughtered. Ketchup 2 Tbs.