egg-regious Ping!...................
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I hate these clickbait titles.
I admit that when I think about the male chick’s, I am bothered by their fates.
"As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." --H D Thoreau
It’s the Easter our worries.
Just what does this lady do with her egg-laying birds when they no longer lay eggs? Put them in an old-hens-home?
1. Can’t the farmers just tell the young roosters to lay eggs? Or is sex purely biological?
2. How soon before hatching do these new methods determine the sex?
3. What happens to the eggs of the male chicks? Are they put back into the eggs distribution network?
I saw this male chick destruction on a tv show years ago. The grinder is extremely high speed; I doubt those chicks know what hits them. Leftovers probably made into pet food. What’s next -— demanding fishing be outlawed because it causes fish pain and anxiety?
“The practice is especially egregious because unlike many baby mammals and songbirds, which are born blind, naked and helpless, newborn chicks are capable little creatures”
A poultry farmer I knew years ago caponized the males, set the females to laying, and raised the capones for meat... I found them to be a bit on the tough side, probably because he didn’t raise them to be what used to be known as “Southern Fryers.”
When those capones are raised free range they toughen up, there’s no way around it, except restricting the movements... which is probably cost prohibitive. I like eggs better anyway, less fuss to bring it to the table.
Price of chicken wings says otherwise.
Think I will have two chicken placentas for breakfast.
Maybe we can get the dykes to stop culling men. Or at least to stop castrating them!
Vegetarian but eats cackle berries?
Hmmm.
Roosters usually are terrible creatures. After a few run ins frankly they cannot blend them fast enough for my liking.
Crazy chicken lady.
Well that was gruesome
newborn brothers faced a gruesome fate shared by 6.5 billion male chicks around the world each year. These male birds can’t lay eggs but also aren’t raised for meat. Because they come from egg-laying breeds, they don’t grow big or fast enough to be used for food. So they are ground up alive or gassed to death. ... When they are thrown into the grinder or gasser at 1-day old, these male chicks are alert and aware.
The good news is that a new technology can help end it. Called in ovo sexing, it determines the sex of the chick embryo long before it hatches, allowing the producers to get rid of the male eggs and hatch only the females. ... Some machines can determine the sex of the chicken embryos by analyzing a small sample of the contents of the egg, rather like prenatal embryo testing for humans.
What is new here is here? The gender of an embryo is determined at the moment of fertilization, when the sperm's X or Y chromosome pairs with the egg's X chromosome. Among the reasons of convenience for abortions in approx. 96% of cases, is that parents do prefer the sex of the child. Get rid of the male or female fertilized eggs. Or they later try to raise such contrary to biology.
The nest and egg of a migratory bird is protected by law however.