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Broiler chickens

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Broiler chickens

Broiler chickens are raised for meat in large sheds strewn with sawdust or shavings and with access to food and water dispensers. Large fans control the temperature.

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Vanessa Wintle and Stacey Lepper, Poultry industry – Poultry meat farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17287/broiler-chickens (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Vanessa Wintle and Stacey Lepper, published 1 March 2009.