Hey, can anyone tell me whether we eat female chicken or male chicken?

I don't know for sure, but what I can tell you is that baby male chickens are frequently ground up in mascerators because they don't produce eggs. Based on that, you'd think that'd skew the consumption of chickens eaten towards females, but I'm not an expert.

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Usually they are hens

Meat chickens - both male and females are processed. Considering they are less than two months old (but fully grown), when slaughtered, you can’t tell the difference between a male or female packaged meat bird.

Egg layers or dual purpose chickens - just the hens (females) are ‘edible’.
Males (or roosters) are stronger tasting, tougher, less fat and less edible meat than females.

Capons are roosters that are castrated at a very young age. These birds are tastier compared to hens and grow much larger.

In the UK only female chickens are eaten.
This is because male chickens are reared for breeding so often have additives in their diet that makes their meat inedible for human consumption.

It's also a sad fact that male chicks are destroyed since they have no value in the food chain.

It's both equally.

Don't eat chicken

Both. The chickens we eat are not kept for laying so other than breeding stock both sexes are eaten.

You can't tell the difference?

Hens. We generally eat hens.

Both, I think. Possibly in smaller poultry/egg suppliers, more roosters, since they don't lay eggs.

Female .

Usually make chicks are fed brutally into a shredder.


They don't grow as fast as female chicks do .