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They seem to have really short beaks. Does that cause them any problems? (Hatching, eating, preening, etc.)

But all the chicks would be males, which are not what the egg industry and the backyard enthusiast want. Since males grow faster than females, I can see possibilities for the broiler industry, but only if they managed a good hatch rate of healthy chicks (currently not possible.)

I suddenly wonder: are those cases of long sperm storage, or could some be parthenogenesis? I suppose many would be obvious, if the chick shows traits that came from the father and could not have come from the mother. That would be proof of sperm storage rather than parthenogenesis. 🤔