Westover, Maryland - March 20, 2017: A slow growth chickens perches on the feed line it it's pen at Perdue's Westover Test Farm Monday March 20, 2017. The test farm hatches, houses, and studies the differences between slow growth chickens and the company's conventional chickens. The slow growth chickens are lighter than the conventional chickens which allows them to be more active, and allows them to perch on the wooden ramps, and bails of hay in their pens, ...and of course, the feed lines, too.
CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
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