Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

I found the broadcast.
Keuringsdienst van waarde (hh), Thursday, April 29 at 8:25 PM on NPO 3.

Intro to the program:
"Without killing chicks" is the slogan on a new carton of eggs in the supermarket. Every year, around 45 million male chicks are killed in the Netherlands. These male chicks hatched for the egg-laying industry. But male chicks don't lay eggs and are worthless to the egg farmer. They are gassed the day they hatch: the day-old chicks.

Now there's a company that can tell from an egg whether it contains a male or a female. The eggs containing male chicks are not hatched, and no day-old chicks are killed. But aren't there other solutions? Why don't we just let the male chicks grow up? And what actually happens to the killed day-old chicks? It turns out it's not a simple question.

The program in Dutch with Dutch subtitles;
Heb je dit gezien? - Eendagskuiken
https://npo.nl/start/serie/keuringsdienst-van-waarde/seizoen-19/eendagskuiken/afspelen

Im not sure sure if people abroad can watch. The images are wortwile to look at and a lot of words in the subtitles are recognisable for English readers too. I watched the broadcast again but didn’t hear (yet) an answer on what actually happens to the killed day-old chicks.

There was an interesting discussion about letting the males of industrial layers live on food that is not expensive/free range. That way they don’t need to kill the chicks either and because the feed costs are relatively low, it is doable to offer the meat of these males in the supermarkets.

More info on Wikipedia in Dutch about the biomarkers and other methods in Canada and Germany . Easy to translate if yoy are interested. https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuikendoden

 

[BDutch]

The answers for @Perris;

No male chicks killing; The embryo with the yolk and egg white go into a chopping machine. This goes to the animal feed industry for conumption.
(Lab environment in the video)

Male chicks killing: the chicks are gassed and go to zoo’s and pet shops for animal food.
(Yellow suits in the video)

Letting the males (laying hybrids) live until 15-16 weeks : the males and females grow up together. The females go to a layer farm. The males to the a food company for the supermarket (Lidl).
(The farm with young white leghorn type chickens in the video)

 

[BDutch]

Tax for talking about killing chicks

Ini mini in 2020. Behind her Graaf Tel (the Count from sesame street).

 

[Shadrach]

Do we think that since Mow and Sylph are mature hens, and have had experience with a rooster (Henry), they would do any necessary training with Glais?

I don’t remember how old Glais is and whether his brain has returned to his body yet.

Maybe.

 

[Perris]

Letting the males (laying hybrids) live until 15-16 weeks : the males and females grow up together. The females go to a layer farm. The males to the a food company for the supermarket

If they didn't go into the human food chain, they could be fed on food waste from catering establishments etc. and thereby help with a circular economy. This project is Cyprus is doing something similar with spent hens
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ne...retired-hens-are-reshaping-farming-in-cyprus/

 

[Molpet]

If they didn't go into the human food chain, they could be fed on food waste from catering establishments etc. and thereby help with a circular economy. This project is Cyprus is doing something similar with spent hens
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ne...retired-hens-are-reshaping-farming-in-cyprus/

I get a kick that it's ok for pest and chicken to eat pests, which could be animal proteins...but the person is a vegan and I Doesn't want people to eat animal protein.
Back to why one animal is ok to die to feed another but others aren't.

 

[Shadrach]

I prefer to harvest cockerels for meat...
They need a better PR campaign for upscale sales, like quail.

Yeah, it's disturbing isn't it. Even on this thread the emphasis is usually about killing them, or worse, preventing them being born, rather than how to keep them alive and healthy.

 

[Molpet]

Yeah, it's disturbing isn't it. Even on this thread the emphasis is usually about killing them, or worse, preventing them being born, rather than how to keep them alive and healthy.

If they would behave, they would last longer at my place. But they still have a better life than what I used to buy at the grocery store.

 

[Shadrach]

Two hours today. They went in early due to the weather which was windy and wet to just damp and windy.
I dug out some more compost heap for them; a job Henry used to do, or at least get the hens started. Sylph found a small snail and instantly ran off with it.

 

[MrsNorthie]

If they would behave, they would last longer at my place. But they still have a better life than what I used to buy at the grocery store.

Exactly, I eat meat, but how can I buy meat from the grocery store, knowing the miserable lives these animals had, how much suffering they go through before they are harvested. That is why we are trying to raise our own and only by beef from ranches and farms where the animals get to frolic in the fields before they are harvested.