[dljordan]

“Green muscle disease — which is also called ischemic myopathy, deep pectoral myopathy, or green breast — is a condition that develops in larger chickens or turkeys when their pectoral muscles are overdeveloped, becoming too large for the blood supply to reach that region”

I keep telling my wife that these chicken breasts are from mutant chickens. I always by the smaller , local ones from the butcher.

[1FreeAmerican]

Gotta love Costco chickens! I like the ones from the local grocers as well but they’re not as big.

The best rotisserie chicken I’ve ever had were from the rotissasado (sic?) in Mazatlan. Open spit rolling over kiawe wood fire. They were small in size, open range chickens - one was a good size for a big guy. They would have about 60 cooking at once but you were prolly gonna stand in line to get one - there were usually half a dozen or so little Mexican senorita’s grabbing 8-10 at a time.
Sooo good!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

All chickens are “mutant chickens”. They are the result of a few thousand years of selective breeding. Beneficial mutations were kept by the human breeders in favor of the less beneficial natural traits.

Now you can argue, (and I do) that they have taken the selective breeding a bit too far since the 1970s. Egg layers and meat chickens have become very specialized and there is just something wrong with chickens that grow so fast their legs break if you delay in harvesting them.

For meat I would say either a Delaware or a Plymouth is about the best.