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This article is about a type of chicken. For the kitchen appliance, see
Broiling.
A broiler is a chicken slaughtered for meat while it is still young and
tender. Modern commercial broilers are specially bred for meat production
and grow much faster than egg breeds. Both male and female broiler turkeys
are slaughtered for their meat.
Before the development of modern meat breeds, broilers consisted mostly of
young male chickens (cockerels). The males were slaughtered for meat and
the females (pullets) were kept for egg production. Compared to today, this
made chicken meat scarce and expensive compared to eggs, and chicken was a
luxury meat. The development of special broiler breeds decoupled the supply
of broilers from the demand for eggs. This, along with advances in
nutrition and incubation that allowed broilers to be raised year-round,
allowed chicken to become a low-cost meat.
Broilers are often called "R
