Hens and cockerels are both born together. We eat the hens, but do we eat the cockerels? And if not what happens to them all.
2007-02-09 03:51:19 · 9 answers · asked by Bernard M 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
We certainly do eat the cockerels. They are emasculated at an early age and fed on top produce capons. The majority of the chicken sold in supermarkets are capons as chickens (female hens) are kept to lay eggs and later used in pet food.
2007-02-09 03:57:08 · answer #1 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi there. Some roosters are kept to inseminate hens while others are selectively killed as chicks. I guess that's just the way business is done in the US. Chickens, unless free ranged, really have a terrible existence. The food industry does not engage in humane practices. I am curious as to the treatment of turkeys. Have a great year.
2007-02-10 20:23:11 · answer #2 · answered by firestarter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hens usually go to battery farms to lay eggs, the cockerels are reared for food- where there is an excess of either they are sometimes dispatched as day olds and sold to zoos or bird of prey centres as animal feed.
2007-02-10 06:13:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ha-ha Lewis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I f the hens are being raised for meat they are killed young before they are old enough to mate and before the males fight so yes they are kept together,
Egg laying breeds usually have most of the males killed at a day or 2 old.
2007-02-09 18:13:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In battery farming some eggs are left aside to keep up the stock of birds in the farm. The chicks after they are hatched they are then sexed and the cockerals are destroyed as they are not needed.. poor little things
2007-02-09 12:02:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are emasculated at an early age and fed on top produce capons.
2007-02-09 12:01:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of them are emasculated (if you get my drift) and they become capons which you don't see that often so I guess they become some form of McFood. And the few that are left as males become every chicken's Baby's daddies.
2007-02-09 11:56:16 · answer #7 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cockerels are the lucky ones, they can have as many female partners as they like n im talking hundreds, all they do all day is strut their stuff & make babies, probably until they die,
2007-02-09 15:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by laura d 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If I remember rightly, those not kept for breeding purposes end up on the plate.
2007-02-09 12:01:08 · answer #9 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋