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Better chicken welfare - where has the industry come from? With Louise Cordina from Cordina Farms
RSPCA Australia's Humane Food Podcast
25 minutes
6 years ago
Better chicken welfare - where has the industry come from? With Louise Cordina from Cordina Farms
Brian Daly interviews Cordina Farms CEO, Louise Cordina, to find out more about the meat chicken industry in Australia and what’s been done to improve chicken welfare. Chickens that are grown for meat production (also called broiler chickens) are genetically very different from layer hens (which are bred to produce eggs). Meat chickens have been selectively bred over many generations to grow and gain weight very rapidly, with birds ready for processing at 4-6 weeks old. The RS...
