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Anticipated Life span: 8 to 12 years
Natural mating
Productive for 200 years
Genetics owned by single Farmers
Effective immune systems
Less susceptible to pathogens
Market weight at 26 weeks
Can Fly
No antibiotics for breeders
No water or feed restrictions
Slower feed conversion
Higher grow out cost
Higher cost per egg
Hatch only in season
No forced molting
Hens lay for many years
Lower egg production
Natural mating and fewer poults
Higher cost per poult
Bio-diversity
Many diverse breeds
No in-breeding
Normal walking gait
Can run and jump
Can roost even as adults
Lack of morbid obesity
Normal cardiac systems
No congestive heart failure
Normal oxygen respiratory levels
No foot pad trouble
Low rates of dermatitis/ lameness
No mutilations necessary
Capable of hatching their own chicks
Retains high intelligence
Characteristic turkey brain waves
Does not thrive in confinement
Adapts to all types of weather
Excellent forager’s
Tapered breast width
Normal length of legs
Stands at a natural 45 degrees
Less white meat
Dark meat is greater and darker
Meat higher in protein
Meat lower in fat per serving
Reduced to a few thousand breeders
Lower use of carbon foot print
Manure spread by turkeys
Takes more land per bird
Can breed your own birds |
Minimal expected life span: 1 to 2 years
Artificial mating only
Genetically engineered in 1970
Genetics owned by private corporations
Inadequate immune systems
Increased susceptibility to pathogens
Market weight at 10 to 12 weeks
Unable to fly
Common usage of antibiotics for breeders
Breeder feed and water restrictions
Faster feed conversion
Lower grow out cost
Lower cost per egg
Hatched all year round
Forced Molting
Hens live one laying season then are processed
Higher egg production
Artificial mating; more poults per egg
Lower cost per poult
Lack of bio-diversity
Only one genetically engineered breed
Total inbreeding
Abnormal walking gait
Physically incapable of running or jumping
Unable to roost at night
Mutated obese birds
Problematic cardiac systems
Frequent congestive heart failure
Reduced oxygen respiratory levels
Increased incidents of foot pad problems
High quantities of dermatitis/lameness
Disfigurements: De-snood, de-claw and de-beaked
Incapable of hatching their own chicks
Inferior intelligence
Exhibit 50% fewer brain waves
Performs well in confinement
Require controlled environment to survive
Ineffective foragers
Amplified width of breast (genetic engineering)
Very short legs (weakness)
Back is level and forward
Surplus of white meat
Less dark meat
Distinct decrease in protein per serving
Abnormal elevation of fat per serving
Millions of factory turkeys
Abnormally high levels of carbon foot print
Manure piled in barns
Requires less land per bird
Breeder/Grower must always go back to the factory
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