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The systematic eradication of male chicks is a common practice in the poultry industry, which says it is the only viable option for birds that have no economic value. But the cullings, which were ...
With the words of the UK Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy still ringing in our ears, Jenny Canham reflects how the firm male chick culling ban commitments of Norway provide impetus for real action ...
With Easter just around the corner, we are surrounded by a ubiquity of eggs and adorable yellow chicks that symbolize life and resurrection. In stark contrast is the fact that around seven billion ...
"We've developed a layer breed that hatches only female chicks. The males stop developing very early upon induction, very early in embryogenesis, meaning that they are not fully developed to a chick ...
WILTON — It’s a cruel statistic. Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The ...
Egg producers have agreed to look for alternatives to the practice of grinding to death male chicks shortly after they are born, in what has become a widespread practice for the industry that sees the ...
The technology involves genetically modifying egg-laying hens so that, when carrying male embryos, those do not progress and hatch — FRED TANNEAU Israeli scientists have created egg-laying hens that ...
With Easter just around the corner, we are surrounded by a ubiquity of eggs and adorable yellow chicks that symbolize life and resurrection. In stark contrast is the fact that around seven billion ...