These aren’t accidental killings, but rather, an established practice in the egg industry known as “chick culling.” Despite a nonbinding pledge to end the practice by 2020, U.S. egg ...

France has pledged to outlaw the practice of culling unwanted male chicks by the end of 2021, as part of animal welfare reforms. About seven billion male chicks - not wanted for meat or eggs - are ...

During a falconry experience I attended a few weekends ago I watched, horrified, as the falconer fed his birds male day-old-chicks. He explained that he buys them as a “by-product” of the egg ...

Spurred by chick-culling bans in places such as Germany and France, in-ovo sexing technology is now being used in several European countries. While it is not yet commercially available in the United ...

Mass-culling of male chicks is common practice in industrialised farming around the world. After being sexed, billions of the baby birds are killed shortly after birth - usually by grinding or ...