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Westover, Maryland - March 20, 2017: Coups of Perdue's white conventional chickens, foreground, share a house with the brown slow growth breeds, inside one of the chicken houses at Perdue's Westover Test Farm in Westover, Md., Monday March 20, 2017. Perdue is studying the slow growth chickens -- which are more active, smaller, and eat less voraciously than their white counterparts -- as a healthy and humane alternative to their conventional chickens.

The slow growth chickens are smaller, and more active than the conventional chickens, which have a larger appetite and are generally more sedentary.



The test farm hatches, houses, and offers a place to study the differences between Perdue's conventional chickens and breeds of slow growth chickens.


CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
Assignment ID: 30204189A

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Westover, Maryland - March 20, 2017: Coups of Perdue's white conventional chickens, foreground, share a house with the brown slow growth breeds, inside one of the chicken houses at Perdue's Westover Test Farm in Westover, Md., Monday March 20, 2017. Perdue is studying the slow growth chickens -- which are more active, smaller, and eat less voraciously than their white counterparts -- as a healthy and humane alternative to their conventional chickens.<br /> <br /> The slow growth chickens are smaller, and more active than the conventional chickens, which have a larger appetite and are generally more sedentary.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The test farm hatches, houses, and offers a place to study the differences between Perdue's conventional chickens and breeds of slow growth chickens.<br /> <br /> <br /> CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times<br /> Assignment ID: 30204189A
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