The Life of a Broiler Chicken 

Understand, this breed of chicken…. Cornish cross that I raised is ready to butcher at 7-9 weeks of age. They are so heavy they can barely walk. I put mine out in the grass for some free range time. They waddled the 30 feet back to the feeder to sit in front of it. My home raised chickens were no tastier than store bought, the kill/butcher day wasn’t much fun. I got no satisfaction or pleasure from it. So, unless your a vegetarian who never eats meat you need to understand that commercial meat production keeps blood off our hands so we can pretend we’re virtuous, loving and wonderful people. I’m going to continue to eat meat but I will not be raising animals for my own consumption. Until you have raised animals to kill and slaughter you have no understanding of the breeds and the process. Oh, and it was the most expensive chicken I’ve ever bought…. So there was no savings there either. Maybe if I breeded chickens to raise for slaughter I might be able to break the cost down. Otherwise I had about $25 in each chicken.

This is sad this year i have 2 broilers and i rasied them very well the day my Mom said that they need to be slaughtered and i cried so hard compare to other chicken's who can spend their life for 10 years not like these :(

That's disgusting and I will never buy another one.

Poor chickens I mean yea we can eat them but don't put them in a confined space for all their life I had broiler chickens ate 3 out of the 5 and let them have the best of their lives before they went away

its so sad and depressing but i could never give up chicken

Please what re dey eating.need d formula.Thanks

If your house is as disgusting and wet as that house at two weeks you fucked up. Where I work your shit better be dry, chickens need to be comfortable.

Thank you

If we weren't meant to eat meat it wouldn't be so damned delicious. BTW my pet chickens fucking love meat of all kinds, pork, hamburger etc its literally their favorite thing in the world besides bugs (which is also kind of meat). If a chicken was big enough it would swallow you whole without a thought...

"Charlie", yeah... Try to name all of them.

Tan chiquitos y sin ver la luz del sol todos apiñados ni se aguantan de lo gordos que están increible lo que les pasa y que van a morir pobrecitos animalitos tan lindos

Disgusting the way they are treated so sad

Every day you are on the earth, something had to die. The clothes on you back, the food in your belly, the petrol in your car, everything. It’s not pretty, but it’s life.

Doc very good

1dt day it weight should be 40-45 g

How long could they live if we wont eat them

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My chick name is coocoo and he is eaten by cat I am so sad 😢😢😢

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Please say y’all saved Charlie

They're only babies who should be with their mummy, not in an overcrowded shed and certainly not experiencing a slaughterhouse at 6 weeks, if ever.

This is the demand we humans place on farmers for very affordable meat. And the demand we have for chicken nuggets always tasting the same. As a small chicken farmer myself, I can say it's far less expensive to by chicken at a store than to raise them, on a small scale at home. I don't agree with how these commercial chicken farmers raise their meat birds; actually, I find it inhumane. But some may find my way of raising chickens inhumane as well. I don't free range them...don't have the space; rather, I put them in a chicken tracker and move them on fresh grass daily. It's a lot of work but worth it. At least my chicken get fresh air, sunshine, water, grass and bugs daily. Not to mention treats. : ) More people would be vegetarians if they had to butcher their own meat.

Dang too sad. I wish we didn't have to eat our chickens when they stop laying. I wish they could live to old age because I want the best for them. I love them 💜

If I were able to sneak in to the farm or whatever this chickens are at I will try to break the wall open so the chickens will be free of suffering and have their best lives

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Broiler chickens are selectively bred to grow super fast, for meat production. Their diet also excludes extra calcium as they are not raised for eggs. Their 5 week of experience and lack of other reference experience means that they won’t really be that upset, unlike humans who live long lives and would have experienced both good and bad. Trying to project your own experience onto them, or anthromophosize these broiler chicken is but social justice parading to mask unfounded guilt. If they were subject to daily beatings, physical labor, starved, sexual abuse, social humiliation, then yes, that would be something wrong. Lack of provision of intellectual stimulation however, I.e providing PlayStation or fancy gyms/spas/touring vacation equivalents on the other hand, is not abuse. Depriving them of predator stress should also not be considered abuse. A chicken left in the wild doesn’t cultivate the field or garden it lives in, it uses it to hide from predator, and go about eating and copulating. It doesn’t usually participate in play behavior either. Being exposed to danger, there is a necessity for the mother to rear the chicks til they achieve sufficient independence. Even so, the chicks and chicken can get killed by wild animals like foxes. If all life is equal, then so are insects and ‘pests’ like rats and cockroaches. They get abused, trapped, poisoned, shot, killed, brutalized in all sorts of ways. Warfarin essentially cause rats to bleed out internally and die. Why not post videos on actual animal abuse? Life isn’t equal, many humans suffer more than these broiler chickens. In fact, the broiler chickens look fine and not stressed. They perhaps look a little bored and ugly from how their genetics have been selected for, but they haven’t been beaten daily or have been subjected to other such abuse.

I'm glad to not eat meat.

The first chicken looked high lol

Wow... This makes me want eggs

Instead of funding the salaries to the ppl that slaughter livestock and poultry, that money should go more towards better housing projects, financial aid money for college students that wanna do good in life, or saving wildlife

Life eats life. It's unavoidable.

Poor little sweethearts. That’s no life. They deserve so much better. 💔😿

delicious!

Wow farming chickens are pretty amazing. They grow so fast and look at all that meat. They would make for a fairly nutritious meal.

Let’s go vegan one day; many delicious options out there without hurting innocent animals

No... animals are not of equivalent value to people..

I hope, one day, humans will no longer have the necessity to eat chicken. It hurts to see their lives being snatched away just to satiate the needs of us omnivores. Of course, they were created to be eaten (and I do eat chicken!) but still, looking at that chick that's barely 0 week hurts me, because, its race isn't even allowed to live to an old age. Sigh.

Outside the jungle that is the jungle fowl descendants job. Now how the animal is reared and processed is super important.

It is sad. But most of the time, life can be sad! If the food supply would be rid of poultry, beef and dairy, then we would be seeing a sad documentary of starving children in the United States and abroad because humanity got rid of 30 percent of the food supply!

This why everyone should be vegetarian. There is no difference between the soul in that chick and the soul in you and I

Pure horror.

Well, at least they serve a purpose and fulfill it completely . Most people can't say that. "Eat Chicken".

And now I am craving a chicken sandwich. Thanks Charlie!!!

It's really amazes me how we care more about animals than we do about other people

They never got to see sunlight 😢

Poor little babies . So sad to think of them. Can feel their pain 😓 and fear . God has given vegetables and plants to eat and not to slaughter and eat these little creatures . They too feel pain like us . All are requested to stop killing these animals for food😓. Show kindness to these animals . Treat them with love and affection .God has created this world not only for us . See how they all look so cute . Hope this message changes this world .

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I raised baby broiler chickens before. but they grew slowly. not like 1 kg in 1 month. Also they didn’t grow so big and fat and meaty. why?

we have got some edgy non vegans in the comment section below.

Chickens live about 4 years in the wild if they are pets. However, a real chicken would probably live around one year before a hawk, coyote, or fox eats them alive. Also, most of the babies will die from predators and only a few would make it to adulthood. We are acting like if they were free, they would live this wonderful life in the wild. They all would get ripped apart by a predator and eaten alive. At least humans give them somewhat of a peaceful ending by being stunned before they are killed. They are prey animals and are meant to be eaten.

How can these beasts call it a “broiler”?

Charlie tasted so good with a little bbq sauce and cornbread before getting washed down with a nice tall Budweiser.

Bull 💩 I’ve kept poultry and no way does a chick become 10X it’s weight in 3 weeks

I really don't care, I want my goddamn fried chicken.

WOMP WOMP I WANT MORE KFC

tasty

So sad 😢 breaks my heart 💔 nasty cruel world

its pretty normal this is our planet we were using animals to feed ourselves for millions of years

someone say kfc?, i don't care, i love it

‘Charlie’ would not even exist - he’s only there to become food. The idea that these chickens could just be ‘with their mummies’ and then die of old age is ridiculous. They are food not pets.

buoni sono gustosi😍😍😍

Damn Charlie's looking pretty delicious for my cheesesteak

Like how we banned slavery, women’s rights, and the death penalty we have to abolish animal slaughter

I had chicken for dinner... it was delicious. I've killed chicken with my hands before. You can cut the head off at the neck or you can crack its neck by swinging it around by the head... Good times, good times..

This is sad but necessary. Nature intended for life forms to eat other life forms.

This music is making me hungry

Looks delicious