Is it true, /ck/?
If so, how?
Are there still chickens as small as the 1957 one?
I thought human selection would have caused chickens to be nice and fat centuries if not millennia ago.
perhaps amish chickens. they look pretty skinny.
>>7408086
>mr. america 1957
>>7408091
>mr. olympia 1978
>>7408095
forgot pic, fuck.
>>7408097
>mr olympia 2005
yeah man, it's that selective breeding. those chickens are 100% natty.
>>7408102
Really admire the effort these guys put in to looking like a gigantic buffalo wing.
>>7408102
I don't think there's anything natural about Mr Olympia...
It's less about useful physique and more about mass.
I've got no idea if they are actually legit strong enough to wrestle bears...
Think about it, stories of early Americans wrestling bears are pretty common. Were bears just smaller back then? Were bears being beat down by scrawny manlets?
Something doesn't add up.
>>7408106
i was getting at the fact that we have come a long way in terms of steroids/growth hormones since the 50's and it s how in chickens as well as bodybuilders in basically the same ways.
except all the bodybuilders are manlets and the chickens are bigger all around, probably because they can be pumped up with growth hormone from birth without worrying about ethics.
franco columbu was probably hte most aesthetic guy ever (behind frank zane), but he was like 5'6 or some shit
>>7408097
R-Rand?
>>7408116
> scrawny manlets
nah... they were hard as fuck from walking everywhere and chopping wood and carrying heavy shit and generally just doing absolutely everything from grinding coffee to building houses with their own hands
makes for the kind of conditioning you just can't obtain in a gym
add in the varied and protein rich diet of a hunter
add in the fact that weaklings tended to die at birth or shortly thereafter
add in some exaggeration
WA LA
>>7408115
MySides.jpg
>>7408116
mr olmypia is a beauty pageant..
with that being said, ronnie coleman did deadlift and squat 800 lbs for reps, so there wasn't anything not strong about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYm7SJn_6ZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCEZHpVqqc
>LIGHTWEIGHT BABY!! LIGHTWEIGHT!
>>7408118
Something someone once told me sticks with me... she was a chick and said she'd take Wesley Snipes at his prime over Arnold Schwarzenegger at his prime any day of the week because Snipes was both muscular and athletic.
>>7408116
>early Americans
If you think the American and Canadian fur-trappers who fought bears picked them up and pulled a double suplex while the crowd went wild, you're an idiot.
To kill an animal, you have to become an animal.
>>7408115
>Spend each waking moment working on my physique
>aiming for that buffalo wing aesthetic
>after years end up with a hot wing aesthetic
>>7408086
>Is it true, /ck/?
yes?
>If so, how?
extensive selective breeding
>Are there still chickens as small as the 1957 one?
yes. wild chickens and chickens in undeveloped regions
>I thought human selection would have caused chickens to be nice and fat centuries if not millennia ago.
Chickens with big fat titties and asses haven't become a "necessity" until very recently. Centuries/millenia ago it was sufficient enough to raise chickens that would live long enough to be butchered. Sure it would have always been nice to get a big fat chicken back in dinosaur times but there was never really any incentive or reason to try and get them any bigger. If you wanted more chicken all you had to do was raise more chickens; they're piss easy to raise and take no space. NOW we don't just want more chicken we want bigger chickens
>>7408102
>>7408154
Juicy.
>>7408086
>If so, how?
america.
>>7408086
The hens next door look fat like the ones in 2005, I think it's just the breed? They probably select that breed on purpose.
>>7408193
TIME TRAVEL TURNS YOU BLACK
Just the English-speaking world, I think?
Ours are still relatively small. In the US, a "small" chicken (2kg/4½lbs) is double the size of our small chickens. I think you guys use a different race of chicken bred for its tits and for super quick growth at a low-cost retail price, though at the expense of flavour.
Ours are more expensive to produce and as we never got into the whole low-fat silliness you guys did, have larger thighs rather than larger breasts. They're costlier, but also tastier than chicken I've had in the US, even organic, free-range ones that were read bedtime stories and fed marigolds.
Our two most common breeds used in industrialised agriculture are Leghorn and Mugellese chickens.
My mum has told me that when she was a kid, there was another breed more commonly used (the name of which I can't remember). When we talked about it, I looked it up to find out why it's not common anymore and what it looks like. Turns out that when industrialised farming became widespread in the 70s, the breed she grew up eating kind of fell off the face of the earth because it didn't handle being in such closed space. It died off too quickly to be useful as an industrial breed. When she and I talked about it before and I looked up pictures of it, its thighs were fucking enormous. I'm gonna see if I can remember what it was called because when I saw the pics, I wanted to eat it and all of its friends.
>>7408164
>france, switzerland and italy are underdeveloped
Nope. We voted with our money against the large breeds. They introduced them before and we didn't like them because how bland they are compared to our smaller birds. It would be nice to have the big ones available for sake of feeding poorer people since our smaller ones are a bit more expensive, but by and large, we're content with having chosen our smaller breeds v your larger ones.
>>7408097
...Does he have 4 arms?
>>7408230
what has science done
>>7408086
I was in the FFA in high school and he had to raise some broilers. What we didn't know was that the way we've bred them, this variety I guess, is that they eat until they literally cannot support their own weight. They started dropping dead from heart attacks and he we had to slaughter them early. We didn't have too much, but you would normally have to shave their beaks off so they don't have a pecking party.
It's not as bad, but our cows are similarly large.
![il_fullxfull.706190671_myte[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BHixqgw.jpg "il_fullxfull.706190671_myte[1].jpg")
what's important to remember in this thread is that there are like a shitzillion chicken breeds
there are giant cooking ones, but the little chicken breeds have not disappeared in the process
>>7408439
I can't decide if my new nickname should be Silkie White or Rhode Island Red
>>7408410
I can confirm this. My dad likes to keep a few hens for egg purposes and I guess as 'pets' as well. Anyways, the local school was giving away chicks they had hatched for a annual project they do, and he accepted 6 of them. Unbeknownst to him, or the school too apparently, they were the type that are genetically modified to be fat and not lay. Those chickens ballooned up fast and were all dying from heart attacks. All six were dead after about 8 months (although 5 had died by 6 months, but one other lived an extra two months somehow). It was a weird experience.
>>7408454
We'll continue calling you a big cock.
>>7408152
Mother fucker I kill squirrels all the time and I ain't burying my nuts for winter.
...yet.
>>7408456
Probably Cornish cross.
A lot of backyard/small farmers hate raising them because of how disgustingly fast they grow.
![wesley-snipes-30-rock[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KjhbCEY.jpg "wesley-snipes-30-rock[1].jpg")
>>7408135
>Snipes was both muscular and athletic.
>>7408135
>Snipes over Arnold
What a pleb bitch.
>>7408164
>extensive selective breeding
you mean genetic engineering right
those chickens are pumped full of chemicals that make them more efficient to raise, slaughter and sell.
>>7408439
I want me some of those fluffy-headed chickens as pets.
>>7408454
Are you saying I would cut the head off a chicken, stick my dick in it, and say aaah?
>>7408831
that's what I call Rhode Island Dead.
>>7408253
fuck, can't unsee
>machamp used FLEX.jpg
>>7408115
Top fucking kek
>>7408417
Yeah Phil heath doesn't put in any hard work. What do you think roids do, exactly?
>>7408253
They are tucked behind his head.
>>7408235
this x 1000
>>7408439
Brahma White with the white jnco jeans
>>7408135
>hanging out with coal burners
gross
>>7408439
i've got some white silkies, they're really weird birds
dumb as a rock and absolutely tiny, the hens weigh about 3 pounds and they all have unappetizing blue skin
good pets though
>>7408086
>food animals are now larger and yield more meat
>this means more people can eat and less animals need to be raised and slaughtered to do it
>somehow people are against this
Go to Hawaii and catch those wild chickens with your bear hands if you don't want to eat the ones in the store.
>>7409365
talking about me? my small eggs are superior.
>mfw /ck/ doesn't have a local chicken-genetics enthusiast friend
>>7409365
I think the blue/black skin of Silkies is beautiful and appetising but those shits are like 4x the price per pound of your standard broiler/fryer so I don't eat them often.
>>7409445
i can't eat them anymore since my flock of them are like dogs at this point
it's a good thing cornish rock crosses are unlikable fuckers, no guilt eating them
>>7408086
Don't know about poultry.
But it perfectly fits burgers.
The whopper used to be a really big burger, so did the big mac.
Nowadays they're just standard and nothing like "I'm really gonna stuff myself today" anymore.
>>7409365
Silkies are adorable.
Not the brightest birds, alarm at shadows and the littlest things, but have very quirky personalities.
Best for laying/pets.
![1_82540f_367213[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LafTmdw.jpg "1_82540f_367213[1].jpg")
>>7408228
>>7408097
>>7408086
Seems like all three chickens were photographed the same year. That would answer your question.
>>7408439
50% breed, 50% feed.
Shit they feed factory animals on is as far from their natural diet as it gets without pumping them full of synthol.
The one on the left a female, the 2 right are different stages of male development. OP's pic is dumb as shit.
>>7408439
it's silly that this poster is all roosters
>>7409768
Heartily kek'd.
>>7408086
a bit more advanced selective breeding, but mostly antibiotics.
There are apparently specific antibiotics that make chickens fatten up like crazy, and they are overused to the point that it's contributing to the rise antibiotic-resistant bacterial diseases in humans.
Plenty of documented examples if you use the Google.
