HOW EGG FARMS WILL STOP KILLING MILLIONS OF MALE CHICKS

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FOR AN EGG farm, male chicks are no more than a nuisance. They don’t lay eggs, of course

So according to the cold, hard economics of the factory farm, male chicks are ground up or gassed soon after they hatch—hundreds of millions a year, according to the farm animal advocates at the Humane League.

 

That grisly practice may end soon. United Egg Producers, which represents almost all of the country’s egg farms, recently announced it will stop culling male chicks by 2020. It will instead look into high-tech methods that can ID an egg as male or female just a few days after it’s laid, also known as in ovo sexing. But nobody has an industrial scale machine that can sex millions of eggs; the technology is still young.

 

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/egg-farms-will-stop-killing-millions-male-chicks/