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spacesatan@leminal.space 4 weeks agoIt’s extremely rare outside of I think Germany but they have commercial in-ovo sexing for laying chickens now. Conditions for laying chickens are still fucked though.
amzd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do you have a source? I can’t find statistics on how many eggs sold are actually using this method.
I found an article from the guardian that mentions it is 98.5% accurate (as claimed by the company, not peer-reviewed) and they somehow claim the eggs sold using this method did not kill any male chicks. What do they do with the 1.5% of hatchlings that are male? Just put them in a cage to die of natural causes? There is billions of hens so that would be millions of male hatchlings even if this method was used in the real world (which I can’t find proof of)
spacesatan@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
There’s an industry article here. They still raise the males that slip through for meat which sucks. But Germany has banned male chick culling so as far as I can tell it’s all hatcheries in Germany using this method, possibly all eggs sold in Germany.