The biggest hurdles are FEED and ROOM to care for the male chicks. Therefore it would not be practical. Past threads have revealed the reality of the doom of these male chicks, it just can not be done for thousands, thousands of male chicks to be raised for meat and no one can afford to feed and house them all. There are alot more city folks than farm folks.
Well, we'll be buying a 'Fry Pan Special,' so there's a bunch of male chicks who will have a glorious life scratching, pecking at bugs in the great outdoors, doing what chickens love to do best...before we whack off their heads and eat them.
What saddens me is not that male chicks are done away with immediately.
I am sad to think of all those potential chicken dinners which could have been donated to a local Food Bank to feed homeless families. If only the government would make it easy (less red tape) for farmers to raise excess meat animals and produce for the hungry! It's absurd how much waste we have in the is country.