Why is chicken bought from store more tender than the one from the country?

Question

In my country, getting country chicken meat is really easy as there are many growers. That being said, we almost always buy from the store because my daughter can’t chew the country chicken meat – no matter if it is boiled, fried, roasted.

So goes the question: **Why is chicken meat bought from the store more tender than the one from the countryside?**

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Answer 1

The meat you bought locally was probably an old bird. I grow meat birds and they are not tough.

The birds in the store generally live no more than 8 weeks. They grow fast and suffer for it.