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    Photos: Brazilian farmer's giant rooster hobby hatches into profitable business

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    Photos: Brazilian farmer's giant rooster hobby hatches into profitable business

    The gargantuan fowl can fetch as much as 20,000 reais ($4,000) each


    Published:  September 14, 2023 13:50 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor  and  with inputs from Reuters

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    Brasilia: When farmer Rubens Braz started breeding Brazilian chickens, he had no idea how big the operation - or the birds - would get. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Some twenty years later, he now raises giant roosters for small-scale farming and hobby purposes in central Brazil and is making a living from surging sales across the country. Image Credit: Reuters
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    His birds, called "Giant Indian Roosters," can grow over 120 centimeters (47 inches) tall. Image Credit: Reuters
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    The gargantuan fowl, which are awaiting formal recognition as a new breed, can fetch as much as 20,000 reais ($4,000) each, Braz said, from some of the thousands of interested breeders in the country. Image Credit: Reuters
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    "It was a hobby at first," he said in an interview at one of his nurseries in the state of Goias. "Then other breeders got interested and today we have a commercial operation." Image Credit: Reuters
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    A chick of a Giant Indian Urubu at the Avicultura Gigante. Image Credit: Reuters
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    His firm, called Avicultura Gigante, is still a niche player in Brazil, the world's largest poultry exporter and home to major meatpackers including BRF and JBS. Image Credit: Reuters
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    As the global avian flu crisis has put a damper on business this year, limiting the transport of live animals in Brazil, Braz said he has focused on supplying fertilized eggs to nearby farmers. Image Credit: Reuters
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    His own farms house some 300 birds. Image Credit: Reuters
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    While that is not enough to serve the meat industry, he said there is plenty of demand from collectors and farmers looking to bolster their flocks of "caipira" chickens, or cage-free animals raised on small properties mainly for subsistence purposes. Image Credit: Reuters

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