In addition, heat has killed more than a million broiler chickens and reduced milk production from cattle.
Most commercially raised "broiler" chickens are no more than seven weeks old.
The breed is being displaced in China by broiler chickens.
In the 1940s, the company made a transition from selling layer chicks to broiler chickens.
For example, 20 percent of broiler chickens are contaminated with salmonella.
Montgomery also invested in the mass production of broiler chickens.
The practice spread so extensively that it is now hard to find an independent producer of broiler chickens.
If I didn't look after their health they'd be like two little broiler chickens, shut up all day in hot hutches.
In 1998, two years after the new program was put into place, 10.8 percent of broiler chickens tested positive for salmonella.
This applies especially to animals raised for meat production, such as broiler chickens.
