male chick culling

Following current scientific evidence, the committee recommended that embryos develop the capacity for sentience at day 13 of incubation at the earliest, meaning that in-ovo sexing should happen at day 12 or earlier. Photo: Canva
29-03-2024 | News

UK government urged to ban male chick culling

Chicken embryo after 72 hours of incubation. Photo: Monika Tumialis (Eksnazja) via Wikimedia Commons
24-04-2023 | News

Research into pain perception in chick embryos

About 7 billion male chicks are killed around the world each year. Photo: Misset
31-01-2020 | News

France to ban culling of male chicks

The results also found that the willingness to pay for dual-purpose products was proportionally lower for chicken than for eggs, probably because of the different price elasticity between the products. Photo: Dreamstime
19-01-2018 | News

Would Swiss consumers pay for dual-purpose poultry?