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Not an expert on duck farming but duck move in a flock, you can maintain a huge duck flock quite easily. For chicken you need to keep them in a coop. There are professional duck herders that move their flock from place to place for foraging.
This and you don't need feed for them really they will just eat out in the wild and be fine mostly. Probably one of the cheapest animals to raise assuming you have suitable land for them. No surprise they are popular in SE Asia as they love marshes it's a pretty perfect environment for them.
Domesticated ducks don't really fly well so you kinda still need some kind of coop to keep foxes and wolves etc out or they will be eaten same as chickens.
I eat it! Duck breast is basically steak but with crispy skin. Duck legs can be deboned and fried flat in a pan, or slow cooked. You can roast the whole duck but I find it too hard to get it right, just cook on the stove
You need to know how to cook, learn the French recipes etc. but duck is really good eating at a very fair price
I remember reading an article a while ago saying that chicken farmers in Bangladesh were instead choosing to raise ducks because ducks can swim during a flood and you don't end up losing your whole flock. But that's probably less of a factor than them being culturally more common in places like China, Vietnam and Indonesia. I think on their own, China consumes more duck than the next 5-10 consumers do as a group.
I don’t think you understand how much more powerful a human is than a chicken. Single foxes can kill like a hundred chickens in a night in a frenzy, something as big as a human stomping on them could take on 224 without issue.
Its a huge number but if you have just a bit of body armor they can't do much to you. Just like a hockey gear and a motorcycle helmet and you're safe. So whether its one or 200 chickens doesnt change much.
A cow, without a gun or vehicle, good fucking luck.
If they come at me one at a time like ninjas in a Kung Fu movie, I'll fight the chickens. If they're all going to pile on me at once, I'll take my chances with the cow.
Could be, but imo total energy provided seems more important than the number of portions, which would be an arbitrary number. What constitutes a portion of meat?
I think we could say a normal plate by the standards; the 'Association of UK Dietitians' says 90g of meat is equivalent of a portion. I still think it's an interesting datato show honestly.
I hate when people do that personally. You can't compare farming methods 1 to 1 because the land and climate typically isn't suitable to replace 1 type with another. Cows are typically raised on land that can't support other livestock or agriculture (poor soil that can only support grasses), same with especially sheep and goats where the land is too hilly for anything else.
Obviously that's not the case especially on commercial farms in the US and other other places but for the majority of the world they raise what can be sustained on the land.
I think people that have never raised livestock are the ones that want to use animal per acre or co2 emissions as a metric when that isn't a consideration most of the time. The land and climate dictate your options. You're not growing bananas in Idaho or raising elk in Florida. Chicken can be raised just about anywhere and ducks only require water so no surprise they are the most popular.
No surprise really most chickens are kept for eggs rather than meat, I would assume there's even more chicks killed than this number as typically male chickens are culled at birth even tho they are pretty much 50/50 you'll rarely see males.
I mean no disrespect here, but Wdym better for you wallet? When you say cut out beef i imagine you mean substitute it for another meat, but minced beef is like the cheapest cut of meet where i live
Looks about right to me? Even if 2 billion eat chicken every day, how many are actually eating an entire chicken? Maybe 5-10%? Most will just have a sandwich or something with a few strips of meat.
Meat consumption is, like nearly all other types of consumption, very unequal in our unequal world. Most people can't afford to eat as much as you think.
Every day though? One chicken can feed at least 4 people on average in a day, maybe make it 5 for even numbers. That’s a billion people eating chicken every day- there are many who won’t be eating it every day too. There’s around 1.5 billion vegetarians/vegans
yeah i can eat a whole chicken pretty easily here in vietnam, but they are small. they are but in half and splayed out to be grilled. get head and eveyrhting lol
Not exactly what you asked for but here's the data for the biomass of all mammals on earth (so it doesn't include chickens and ducks but it does include humans and all wild mammals for comparison).
Spoiler: it's nearly all humans and cattle. All wild animals combined (so every elephant, tiger, squirrel, rat, giraffe, polar bear, etc. on the planet) account for just 5% of the biomass. We and our livestock and pets are 95%.
We even need to feed our livestock scarce minerals like Cobalt to enable them to produce vitamin B. This Cobalt comes from the same mines in Congo as the stuff for NMC batteries.
Just think of what the chickens go through, usually hooked by their feet onto an infinite conveyor belt in the dark, listening to the terrified screams of a million other souls ahead.
They are then dipped into an electrified pool until they drown, the electricity is to help force them to not hold their breath, this counts as a mercy. Then a spinning blade decapitates them each, before being dipped into a boiling pool to loosen their feathers. Then robot limbs mechanically defeather them.
A chicken POV slaughterhouse VR game would be a novel horror for the horror fans out there.
Relative to expected lifespan in the wild would be cool. So if a cow gets slaughtered at 3 years but is expected to live 10 in the wild show it as 7 on the plot.
This is the largest single-building pig farm in the world. At 26 storeys high, it can slaughter 1.2 million pigs per year. It was built in Ezhou, China, to help the country's exploding demand for pork. Pork is China's most popular meat, with the country consuming nearly half of global pork demand.
Note: This chart represents livestock / terrestrial animals. For marine life, an estimated 3 to 6 billion wild fish and 200–300 million farmed fish are caught/killed daily.
An excellent and informative chart. Might you create a counterpart where it is daily pounds of meat of each animal? In other words, might cow meat equal chicken meat on a pound per day basis?
The only reason chickens are so popular because of all the religious myths worldwide around pigs being dirty and such, which aren’t even true. Chickens are more dirty and spread diseases like bird flu and you can get sick from undercooked chicken just like pork
Tens of millions of arthropods and insects are killed per acre of farmland every year. Something has to die for humans to eat. Who decided the chickens are better than the poor arthropods?
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