The technology offers an alternative to culling male chicks at hatch by allowing sex determination of chick embryos during ...

In-ovo technology eliminates the need to cull live, male chicks by determining whether the embryo developing inside the egg is male or female before they hatch.

No Legal Prohibitions Against Chick Culling in the U.S. As of this writing, chick culling is banned in Austria, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Italy has banned the practice as well, ...

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.

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.

A Victorian poultry farmer details the emotional toll of an avian influenza outbreak on his properties. The business is ...

Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue welcomed 3,700 new chicks just over a month after farm operators were forced to cull 99,000 ducks when an outbreak of H1N5 — bird flu — spread across the ...

What It Actually Means to Cull a Flock of Chickens. Culling has been standard practice during the avian flu outbreak. But the term doesn’t begin to hint at the cruel reality that hides behind it.

The system began operating this month in Iowa at the nation's largest chick hatchery, which handles about 387,000 eggs each day. The machine, called Cheggy, can process up to 25,000 eggs in one ...

Chick culling is an outgrowth of a poultry industry that for decades has raised one kind of chicken for eggs and another for meat. Egg-laying chickens are too scrawny to profitably be sold for ...

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 unwanted males are sent into the ...