Every year the U.S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because they will never lay eggs and so have little ...

Chick culling is an outgrowth of a poultry industry that for decades has raised one kind of chicken for eggs and another for meat. Egg-laying chickens are too scrawny to profitably be sold for ...

US-based NestFresh has adopted in-ovo sexing technology to reduce male chick culling, supporting animal welfare. Vice president Jasen Urena speaks to us about how they use non-invasive hyperspectral ...

Chick culling is an outgrowth of a poultry industry that for decades has raised one kind of chicken for eggs and another for meat. Egg-laying chickens are too scrawny to profitably be sold for ...

This is an alternative to the longstanding practice of chick culling when male chicks are killed because they have little monetary value since they do not lay eggs. (Courtesy Tony Reidsma via AP ...