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I read an interesting article this spring about fryer breeds however which makes me think we could actually raise and kill them for the meat. Essentially it boils down to this:
The fryer breeds have been bred to put on weight very quickly, so quickly in fact that they will overeat themselves to incapacity to move. I think it was about 7-9 weeks being the practical limit for their active lives before they start to have such severe problems as breaking their own legs under their own weight. This lends itself well to the idea that slaughtering them around that time is actually the more humane thing to do.
In other words, layers remain long lived layers, and fryers have relatively short lives whether you choose to euthanize them or not, so one might as well give them the best quality of life for that time - then put them out of their misery so to speak.
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