United Egg Producers (UEP), an industry group representing the interests of egg farmers throughout the United States, says it will seek to eliminate the culling of male chicks. Because male chicks ...
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 ...
Introduction: The 7 Billion Male Chick Problem and the Shift to "In-Ovo Sexing"The legal regulation banning the culling of ...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, chick culling, the routine killing of newly hatched male chicks because they cannot lay eggs and are not considered profitable by the egg ...
Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year—but a ban is not the solution, says study
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 ...
EU-funded researchers have developed an ethical, environmentally friendly and economic alternative to the culling of male chicks in the poultry industry. The system can determine the sex of an embryo ...
Italy is getting ready to end a long-standing routine in its egg industry: the killing of newborn male chicks. For decades, hatcheries have sorted chicks within hours of hatching, and millions of ...
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