….what happens to male chickens?
The U.S. egg industry kills 350 million male chicks per year because they’re not of use to the egg industry because they cannot lay eggs. This practice is pretty brutal — right after being sexed the males are immediately ground up. There are tech fixes, such as a new machine popular in Europe called Cheggy, developed by the German agricultural concern Agri Advanced Technologies. The first two of which in the United States entered use at hatcheries in Texas and Iowa. The issue for the American hatcheries is that it only works well on brown eggs, and in the United States white eggs account for 81 percent of sales. A system that will be able to detect the sex of embryos in white eggs is expected within five years.
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