Commercial (meat) chicken farming
Explanation:
'meat' is redundant because when you mean eggs, you would just say chicken-egg farms.
But if you need to stress it then call it 'meat chicken'. I do not prefer 'broiler', as the name itself, though widely used can be misinterpreted to mean only chickens for broiling and not other methods of cooking.
So,
(meat) chicken farms - for meat
(chicken) egg farms - for eggs
breeder chicken farms - to breed more chickens, not to produce eggs for sale.
One difference is
- egg farms, besides for eggs, the chickens are individually caged for ease of collecting eggs, and to monitor egg productivity.
- meat chicken farms, normally not individually caged.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/welfare/farmed/meatchks/meat...
http://www.chicken.org.au/production.html
http://www.chicken.mb.ca/farmtotable.html
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Note added at 2003-02-23 17:26:18 (GMT)
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I think the purpose of all these terms is not to differentiate the farms but the chickens itself!
- meat/broiler chicken, layer chicken, breeder chicken.
But
- chicken farm, (chicken-)egg farm, (chicken-) breeder farm.
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Note added at 2003-02-23 17:39:39 (GMT)
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Meat chicken - has to be fast growing, not prone to disease.
Layer chicken - has to be female, and high productivity in eggs.
Breeder chicken - selected for characteristics, cross-breeding, etc.
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