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title: "Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s"
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published_at: "2014-11-19T12:13:52+00:00"
author: "Stefan Grund"
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# Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s

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> The one on the left is a breed from 1957. The middle one is a 1978 breed. And the one on the right is a commercial 2005 breed called the Ross 308 broiler. They’re all the same age. And the modern breed is much, much, much larger.