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et’s start with a guessing game: how many chickens do you think are consumed in your country every week? Whether your guess is accurate or not, the numbers will certainly be enormous and probably far greater than you imagined. Take South Africa, for example, where the top two largest chicken producers alone account for eight million birds a week. The fourth largest in the country is Tydstroom Fresh Farm Chicken, whose output from its Durbanville plant to the north of Cape Town is around 800,000 birds a week.