Weight of a Whole Chicken

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Does the chicken's lifestyle affect its weight? Absolutely. A pasture-raised, free-range chicken that actually jogged around a field will usually weigh less than its factory-farmed cousin. These athletic chickens have denser, leaner meat. They are the personal trainers of the poultry world. They weigh about 4 to 5 pounds, while the lazy, couch-potato chicken (factory-farmed) can hit 7 pounds easily.

It’s the same as you versus a marathon runner. If you both got on a scale, the answer would be: it depends on how many bags of chips you just ate. But for chickens, the chips are replaced by a weird, regulated diet of soy and corn. The athletes also taste better, which is Nature’s cruel joke on the lazy ones.

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Feathers: The Invisible Weight

We never talk about feathers. A fully feathered chicken has about 8,000 to 9,000 feathers. Those feathers weigh roughly 4% of the bird’s total body weight. On a 5-pound chicken, that’s about 0.2 pounds of pure, glorious fluff. That’s the weight of a smartphone that has infinite battery life, but zero signal.

If you’ve ever plucked a chicken, you know the feather removal process is only slightly less tedious than reading the terms and conditions on Netflix. Every single one of those 8,000 feathers is a tiny cry for help that you must silence with hot water and patience.