[quote=Halo]
If you buy a chicken in the supermarket, chances are it is a female chicken. That is fact. Of course you can eat males, it's meat like any other meat - usually as capons after they've been castrated (and therefore develop similarly to females.) But having just looked this up, it appears that female chickens are preferred and are the ones generally sold in supermarkets and such, due to better meat quality (and other, more logistical reasons.)
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People castrate chickens?