WILTON, Iowa (AP) — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little ...
More than 100,000 birds -- nearly all of them chickens -- have been killed at a Cullman County commercial broiler farm and a backyard flock in Pickens County after highly pathogenic avian ...
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.