WILTON, Iowa (AP) — Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million ... how to determine chicken sex before the chicks can hatch. Several companies can now do that, but unlike most ...
Egg-laying chickens are too scrawny to profitably be sold for meat, so the male chicks are ground up and used as additives for other products. It wasn’t until European governments began passing laws ...
Newly hatched chicks are seen after being sorted in a machine that provides a new technique to enable hatcheries to peek into millions of fertilized eggs and spot male embryos, then grind them up ...