The skin and meat of corn fed chicken is more yellow a result of having been fed corn or maize the colour fades on cooking but the meat is more juicy and has a richer fuller flavour corn fed chicken have more flavour and are easily recognized by their yellow flesh in 1589 king henri iv promised the french people that every family would have a chicken in the pot on sundays this is the chicken they would have wanted to eatrrefrigerated shelf life from despatch date 3 days