The Giri Raja Chicken

Welfare groups have been saying for years that modern farming should give up the use of finely-tuned specialist chickens, split into meat and egg producing flocks, just as they should move away from high-yielding Holstein dairy cows and massive Belgian Blue beef cattle and go instead for hardier, dual-purpose animals, which produce both meat and eggs/milk. Now the Veterinary College in Bangalore has come up with one such solution, the Forest King or Giri Raja. This is a magnificent looking chicken which has been bred to be dual-purpose. It thrives on a scavenging diet, grows to a good weight and the females are useful egg producers. It is totally unsuitable for the hot-house conditions of the factory farm.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• India
• chicken
• farming
• economy
• diet

[uwiyosjee]

Why don't they start producing human versions of Giri Raja in order to survive the oncoming dooms days...?

[vidaripollen]

even illiterate subsistance farmers know that naati or non factory farm chicken are more nutricious and healthy!

[FCannova]

Good video. I hope this breed of chicken becomes much more popular around the world. Thanks for sharing! :)

[jammer4321]

next time, why no just chop right off