will it benefit the chicken poultry? because if we assume that the certain gender is male and the chick will most likely be capable of reproducing will it effect its offspring and give side effects on people that will eat it or its offspring?
2007-09-22 16:38:03 · 3 answers · asked by i play guitar!... 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No the testosterone won't change the meat very much.
I am assuming you are using chicken testosterone here. What you will create, if you don't kill it is a chicken that will have a lot of rooster like qualities. The testosterone won't change the sex; that is determined by the DNA. It will probably give the hen a comb, or improve the comb if it is a rooster.
The chick may just use up all the testosterone before it grows up to be a hen or a rooster so you would have no effect. Both male and female humans produce testosterone; the amounts vary. I assume that chickens are pretty similar.
Now if you KEPT the resulting chick on a high testosterone diet then that would be in the meat and it could have an effect on those who eat it. However, chicken testosterone is not the same as human testosterone; there are enough differences that it would have unpredictable effects on a human.
The problem that you are hinting at is what happens if you subject animals used for food to large scale and long term steroid abuse? The answer is unpredictable and depends on the conditions; amount, length of time, similarity to the human version etc. However, taking in all that chemicals is probably not that good for humans; which explains the growing trend to favor organic food that from animals that aren't feed steroids and antibiotics.
2007-09-22 16:54:39 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha, years ago we injected very small amounts of testosterone (human) into the male game (fighting) chickens breast. Started them on it when they were a month old. These chickens grew up stronger and faster than any I had ever seen! But ! They grew to heavy to compete. When cock fighting was legal, I fought at Copper State in Arizona.
2014-11-21 16:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by headsmashedin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would taste like rosie odonnel
2007-09-25 20:56:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋