I'm coming down with something, and felt so bad yesterday that Bob volunteered to run to the store for ingredients for a pot of chicken and noodles. He brought home a Smart Chicken. I usually buy a different brand of local/organic, but apparently this was all the store had.
I cut it into four parts and placed it in a pot with water, bay leaves, peppercorns and the requisite celery and onion to gently simmer. Two and a half hours later it was not only not falling off the bone yet, it was still clinging. The meat itself was downright rubbery, and fairly flavorless. It's the worst pot of chicken soup EVER.
I was pretty shocked. Chicken is basically already pretty healthy and low fat, what an idiotic thing to raise a bird so lean.