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ChickenGlobal average water footprint: 3900 litres for 1 kg of chicken meat. In an industrial chicken farming system, it takes 10 weeks on average before the chicken is slaughtered. It will produce 1.7 kg of chicken meat. A chicken consumes about 3.3 kg of grains (mainly soybean meal, wheat, corn, canola meal and mill screen) and 30 litres of water for drinking and servicing the farmhouse. This means that to produce one kilogram of chicken meat, we use about 2 kg of grains and 20 litres of drinking and servicing water. Producing 2 kg of feed of this composition takes about 3.9 m3 of water on average. |
