Daily Sabah
By Reuters
July 18, 2023
Each year, approximately 7 billion day-old male chicks are euthanized by egg farmers because of their inability to lay eggs and their unsuitability for meat production. However, an Israeli laboratory proposes a potential solution: preventing the male eggs from hatching altogether.
All the chicks are female at Yuval Cinnamon’s laboratory in central Israel, where new technology offers an answer to what he calls “the most devastating animal welfare issue worldwide – the culling and sorting of day-old male chicks.”