Hatchery Practices

[MayberrySaint]

I was informed by an friend that some hatcheries dispose of their male chicks in a gruesome fashion...does anyone know if this may be true? I don't want to give my business to hatcheries that practice this.
I never thought about what they do with all the males. I know some are used as "warmers" but I guess they can't use them all that way.

 

[Omeletta]

I can't tell ya, but I don't know if it would suprise me much. I think it would be better business to either sell them dirt cheap, or give them away for people who do meat birds. Thought this was too good a question to let st in the unanswered post pile

 

[Southern28Chick]

I saw a site online that showed baby boys all dead in a pile. I can't remember the site and I don't want to. I'm not ordering from hatcheries anymore.

 

[Agilityscots]

I've read in several books that they're usually just tossed into a garbage bag or can, where they suffocate...they're then tossed into a grinder, dead or alive. Can't verify it, but I've read it many times. It makes sense if you think about it; there's so much demand for hens as compared to roos...

Amy

 

[jessied1227]

Oh, dear! If this is indeed true, I will *never* order from a hatchery again.

Poor little buggers can't help the way they're born.

Jess

 

[lacyloo]

when the egg laying chickens are hatched and are boy they trow them in dumpster to die,cause there aint really a use for them in there opinion are unsless,but i think they could atleast sell them really cheap or ,free

 

[PurpleChicken]

The hatcheries probably figure if they give them away or sell them cheap
it will cut into the sales of other, more profitable birds.

I'd take them for free, even if I had to use them as meat birds. They would
have a good life and a humane death.

Chickens are a commodity. I'd like to see what happened if someone tried
the same with kittens. To me it's equally wrong but can you imagine the outcry?

 

[speckledhen]

Geez, give them away! Even if they're fattened for the stewpot, they'll still not be tortured to death. How many poor families could use some chickens for meat? What a waste!

 

[Agilityscots]

Quote:
That's why I became a vegetarian 7 years ago!

Amy

 

[chickbea]

Many are frozen and used as food for pet snakes. That probably isn't the answer you want to hear either.