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is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
by throwawaymaths 1y ago
is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
- michaelmrose 1y agoThey don't feed them. They grind them up alive then use the resulting slush to feed to other things.
- throwawaymaths 1y agowhat do those chicks eat? IIUC they aren't sexed immediately after hatching? Maybe I'm wrong.
- ashtonbaker 1y agoSexing is typically done immediately after hatching, yes.
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- ashtonbaker 1y agoThey don't feed male chicks - from the first paragraph: > in the United States alone, approximately 350 million male chicks are routinely culled each year, typically by methods such as maceration (being ground up alive).
- jacknews 1y agobut they'd save on incubating the eggs which they could otherwise use or sell.
- ashtonbaker 1y agoI suppose that is true. But I imagine that the scale of egg incubation to produce hens is a relatively small portion of total egg production, since each hen produces many eggs. You'd probably have to compare the cost of incubating an egg and the labor to manually sex the chick to the per-egg cost of this technology. I would be surprised if that comes out in favor of the in-egg-sexing tech right now, but it would be great if it did.
- senkora 1y ago> In-ovo sexing is still at the beginning stages of its rollout, and while it has become substantially cheaper since it became available 7 years ago, it still adds a few cent per dozen to the production cost of eggs. I’m sure we’ll get there but for now it costs more.
- bazhova 1y agoThey don't feed the males - they just kill them.
- homeless_engi 1y agoMale chicks are not feed nor raised but rather fed into a device quite similar to a wood chipper shortly áfter birth. You can read more about it here [1] or find some quite graphic videos on YouTube. This is addressed in the article: "In polling, only 10% of Americans correctly identify that male chicks in the egg industry are killed shortly after hatching. A plurality mistakenly believe these chicks are raised for meat, and another 10% even think that male chickens can lay eggs. Most people are surprised, and often disturbed, to learn the truth: in the United States alone, approximately 350 million male chicks are routinely culled each year, typically by methods such as maceration (being ground up alive)." 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
- throwawaymaths 1y agoyeah I'm aware of male culling.
- fhd2 1y ago"10% even think that male chickens can lay eggs" I really didn't see that one coming.
- miningape 1y agoYeah I got whiplash from my head snapping back to read that again
- xigoi 1y agoThere was also that time when a milk company wrote the names of the cows who produced the milk on the cartons and some feminist complained that all the names were female.
- clort 1y agois it an urban legend, or do you have reference for that?
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