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The Giri Raja Chicken

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Producer(s)	Sarah Matthews
Director(s)	Sarah Matthews
Release Date	2008
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Runtime	6:20 min
Youth Media	n

Film Description

Can a new breed of chicken help break the stranglehold of industrial farming?

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.

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