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[hemet dennis]

Well that's a good use of them I suppose. What exactly happens to those that go to a rendering plant?

Rendering is to make purified fats like lard or tallow. Day old chicks don't have fat. The culled chicks go into fertilizer mostly.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

The rendering plant here also deals with fertilizer. Unfortunately a lot of the hatcheries have to pay to have the chicks hauled away, which is a cost loss on their end. There is some talk about a device to sex eggs at one week of incubation using a laser though. If that comes through it would save a lot of money.

 

[Terry34]

Thanks for the info.