What Do Hatcheries do With There Extra chicks that havent been sold?

[Oregon Blues]

I see very little difference between being made into pet food and being fried up into Kentucky Fried Chicken. I'll bet it doesn't make any difference to the chicken at all.

 

[Moonkit]

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*shudders* I think I found that video.. eek. That is horrifying. I hope Meyer and Ideal don't treat their chicks like that. But I suppose one can only hope...

 

[PtldChick]

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*shudders* I think I found that video.. eek. That is horrifying. I hope Meyer and Ideal don't treat their chicks like that. But I suppose one can only hope...

I've seen that video, and it's not a retail hatchery, it's a hatchery that sells birds to the commercial egg-laying industry - no roosters are kept or sold at all. I doubt that a hatchery like Ideal or Meyer, etc., have the $$ or room for major industrial equipment like the chick grinding and debeaking machines seen on the video. I read where the hatchery said that the grinding is "instant euthanasia" and approved by the American Veterinary Association as humane. I wonder if it really is instantaneous death for the chicks? I sure wouldn't want to be ground up alive; then again it would have to be one huge machine to be the same proportion as to a chick. I just hope that the meat that comes out of those machines is used somehow.

 

[NYREDS]

I thought the hatcheries all had big farms in the country where the unsold chicks went to live out their lives in peace. I can't believe that's not the case. Something needs to be done about this. Does Presiden Obama know?

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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I think I have some at my house too.

 

[sidearm]

Meyers always has a random mix of chicks for sale at the store, and there are usually a number of boxes of chicks for sale from Meyers at the nearby Mt Hope livestock auction every Wednesday. They do the best they can to sell the unsold chicks. Grinding them up or selling them as meat must be very uneconomical since there is not much more there than an egg would contain, so it's a last resort just to stop the cost of holding them. Don't forget, they are just chickens destined to be food anyway, so the economics are a big factor.

 

[BairleaFarm]

So i watched this vid - the part that bothered me the most. you can stop this by choosing a vegan diet. umm yeah you can also stop it by buying local, buying straight run, etc. none the less it is kinda sad how they are handled.

 

[hlf1996]

I dont think it would be allowed to post the link to this video. But, when I was figuring out which hatchery I was going to buy from I looked at videos. If you want to see what some hatcheries do to the unwanted chicks, search "Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery" on youtube.

 

[Oregon Blues]

[[[......you can stop this by choosing a vegan diet.....]]]]]

In my opinion, that would have no effect on the industry at all.

If the humaniacs manage to legislate everyone into being Vegan against their will, like they are trying to do, it would be the end of chickens.

Nobody would breed or raise chickens at all if it were illegal to eat the meat or eggs. So no more chickens, no more cows, no more pigs ever again. They would all be slaughtered. All of them.

What, you don't really think someone is going to give a heard of 200 cows or a battery of 5,000 hens a lifetime comfortable retirement, pay for all that feed, all those property taxes, put in all those hours of care?

Egg farms would have every hen slaughter right on the spot.

A bit of a strange vision about how to be kind to animals.

 

[NYREDS]

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Yeah but imagine what a black-market egg would bring $$$$$$