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Wow, really? Never heard that one before.Just heard a story on the radio about 'them' genetically engineering for all female hatches.
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Wow, really? Never heard that one before.Just heard a story on the radio about 'them' genetically engineering for all female hatches.
I see someone just provided a link to a thread talking about it.Wow, really? Never heard that one before.
Most do get culled as chicks. Some are sold in male-only orders and some are sent to wildlife rehabs as raptor food, but there’s simply too many male chicks for that to happen to all of them.I was thinking about big time hatcheries with tons of breeds like McMurray. They guarantee shipments of day old chicks of several breeds. What do they do with extra chicks that are not sold? Seems like keeping them would be more costly to the business as far as space and feed. I'm sure some go to renewing breeding stock, but the others? Do they get processed as chicks? Many of the breeds they sell aren't worth anything for meat so I'm sure they aren't raised for butchering. And for that matter, where do retired breeders go? Also processed for miscellaneous products?
And for small time breeders, especially those selling sex-linked chicks... What do you do with males you don't sell?
Realistically zoos need live or frozen whole foods and they serve a purpose. In some parts of the country a horse that needs to be euthanized can be shot ( cant use euthasol as it haspentobarbital which can cause harm in anything to that eats it...) to be fed to big cats,wolves etc at zoos and sanctuaries..I've also heard of some selling their extras as feed either as frozen chicks or even processed for dog food and other reasons. Just don't know how true or common this practice is.
Those articles talk about sexing before hatch, but not before incubating.I too read an article, not the one provided, about how some country has engineered a machine (sort of like an Xray) to sort out the eggs prior to incutbating.
https://www.poultrynews.co.uk/produ...hnology-is-transforming-the-egg-industry.html
https://www.connexionfrance.com/art...ts-egg-embryo-sex-to-save-killing-male-chicks
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/spectroscopy-allows-in-egg-chicken-sexing-/2500274.article
https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-spectroscopy-determines-sex-of-a-chicken-egg/
Those articles talk about sexing before hatch, but not before incubating.
The articles are talking about several different methods, but all require the eggs to be incubated for some amount of time first. Day 13 was the latest I saw, day 9 was mentioned several times, and day 3 was the earliest I saw mentioned (also mentioned several times).
Several of the articles were talking about making a hole in the egg, so they could take a sample of fluid from the egg to test. One article also compared it with a method that uses candling to detect pigment in the embryo, which works on specially-bred chicks that have a sexlinked trait (so males vs females have different amounts of pigment.)
I too read an article, not the one provided, about how some country has engineered a machine (sort of like an Xray) to sort out the eggs prior to incutbating.
https://www.poultrynews.co.uk/produ...hnology-is-transforming-the-egg-industry.html
https://www.connexionfrance.com/art...ts-egg-embryo-sex-to-save-killing-male-chicks
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/spectroscopy-allows-in-egg-chicken-sexing-/2500274.article
https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-spectroscopy-determines-sex-of-a-chicken-e