On: Why is chicken so cheap? [video]

[toasterlovin]

I think your #2 is a pretty good insight.

Separately, I’m more interested in why chickens are more economically efficient than, say, pigs or cows than why they’re more efficient than other birds. Any thoughts there?

[lostjohnny → toasterlovin]

#2 is pretty obvious, birds of prey are predators, you don't put predators together in the same space

But the same happens if you put two roosters in the same hen

chickens are not much more efficient than many other birds though

just more common