"pk" > wrote in message
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> Don't know what it's like in the us, but here in the uk i avoid such
> unbelievable offers like the plague - here it is cheap for a reason: ery
> low quality.
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> pk

Chickens are not animals here, but a mass produced manufactured product.
Takes about eight weeks on the production line. Once a bird is hatched, it
goes through a series of processes in different parts of the factory and
there is no way to skip a step or slow it down. If sales take a dip, there
is limited warehouse space to store the excess production and no way to stop
it quickly. To move them out, the price is dropped.

I don't know why they do this, but for some reason when they make chicken
parts, they make them in sets. Each bird consist of 9 (figure that one)
pieces when cut up. If one part outsells the other, the price is dropped on
the surplus part even more drastically. I'm sure they will eventually be
able to select a chick that has three wings or whatever, to balance things
out.