Why don’t white broiler chickens lay eggs?
Image by ratnasinghrathore
This is the Cooked dish.
karansguesthouse.wordpress.com
Recipe
Serves Four
Time Taken to Prepare – about 90 Min
Ingredients
Onions 4 large minced
Oil 1 cup
Red chilli powder 3 tea spoons heaping ( or to taste)
Coriander Powder 2 tea spoons heaping( or same proportion as the red chillies)
Turmeric Powder 1/2 tea Spoon
Salt -One and a half Tea Spoon (Not heaping) or to taste.
Sour Curd 200 gms ( or lesser in proportion to the red chillies as this much curd is needed to take the bite out of the red chillies)
Garlic Paste 2 Table Spoons
Ginger Paste 1 Table Spoons
Green Chillies 2 Minced ( optional as per taste)
Broiler Chicken 900 gms
Method
Heat the oil in a pressure cooker( thick bottom of the cooker prevents the masala from burning easily) and add the minced onions to the oil when the oil starts to smoke and fry the onions on low heat till brown.
Add the red chilli powder, salt, coriander powder & turmeric powder to the oil and the fried onions and add a little water so that the mixture does not burn.
Cook the mixture on low heat till the oil starts bubbling and the masala is cooked.Add some more water and cook some more till the oil starts bubbling again.
While adding the curd ensure to stir the mixture on high flame till the masala comes to a boil.Keep the flame on low heat and keep frying the curry till it takes the color of deep oily red chillies.
Add the Garlic paste and the ginger paste to the curry and cook some more.
Wash the Chicken and add to the curry and add enough water to cover the Chicken and cook on low heat till the chicken turns tender.
Add the green chillies to the prepared Chicken and serve with chapaties or tandoorie rotis.
Question by steve: Why don’t white broiler chickens lay eggs?
I’ve let these chickens grow to 12 months and they don’t seem to want to reproduce. Are they sterile?
Maybe they were all roosters. Guess I really wanted them to reproduce so I didn’t have to buy chicks at almost 1 dollar per bird where I am. (Really increases the loss). I do have plenty of egg laying birds but wanted these meat birds to reproduce . Thanks!!!
Can you help? Leave your own answer in the comments!
2 Responses to Why don’t white broiler chickens lay eggs?
Leave a Reply
They should’ve started laying by now. Maybe they’re roosters? That’s the only reasonable explanation I can think of.
sweetness
October 30, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Oh wow, my white broilers laid at six, or seven months of age. I would check your birds’ vents first to be sure. A non laying bird will have a small round vent, and a laying bird will have a larger, wide hole.
Maybe, considering your housing conditions they could be eating their eggs, or laying them in an unknown area.
White broilers, are meat birds, not efficient for egg production, and not very good at it in my experience. Most of these fowl at a year of age, aren’t very healthy because they grow so rapidly their organs start to give out. My only thought for their lack of eggs, is that the themselves are not healthy enough for their bodies to lay.
Also, what are you feeding. These birds should be on a timed feed,not over twelve hours a day and feed a ration of egg laying pellets, and scratch.
If you really want some egg layers, you may want to get some a Rhode Island Reds, or any dual-purpose breed for that matter.
Best wishes,
Jamie/Rhoderunner
Edit:
At twelve months you would know if they were roosters. As they would be crowing, and have large red combs, curly tail feathers, and pointed neck (hackle), and near the tail (saddle) feathers.
If you desire to breed broiler birds, it would be much better to buy some white Plymouth Rock hens, and cross them to a white Cornish rooster. The reason I suggest Plymouth rock hens instead of Cornish hens, and a Plymouth Rock rooster, is because the Plymouth Rocks will be better layers.
This cross is what the broiler is, and how hatcheries breed broilers. They actually don’t keep broilers, and let them reproduce.
Hatcheries do not breed broilers, by actually breeding broiler stock.
Meat chicks can be bought very cheaply, but they will have to be in bulk (hundreds). And one dollar per chick is actually very cheap (or at least it is where I live)
Each egg is considered to have a value of $ 0.25, with fertility, and incubation, care, breeding, and so forth that often goes over a dollar.
rhode runner
October 30, 2011 at 8:04 pm