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  2. Chick culling - Wikipedia

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    Because male chickens do not lay eggs and only those in breeding programmes are required to fertilise eggs, they are considered redundant to the egg-laying industry and are usually killed shortly after being sexed, which occurs just days after they are conceived or after they hatch. [3]

  3. Chick sexing - Wikipedia

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    Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male. Some females also have bumps, though they are rarely as large as those of ...

  4. Cloaca - Wikipedia

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    Cloaca of a red-tailed hawk. A cloaca (/ k l oʊ ˈ eɪ k ə / ⓘ kloh-AY-kə), pl.: cloacae (/ k l oʊ ˈ eɪ s i / kloh-AY-see or / k l oʊ ˈ eɪ k i / kloh-AY-kee), or vent, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive (), reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals.

  5. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    A common practice among hatcheries for egg-laying hens is the culling of newly hatched male chicks since they do not lay eggs and do not grow fast enough to be profitable for meat. There are plans to more ethically destroy the eggs before the chicks are hatched, using "in-ovo" sex determination.

  6. One of the easiest things you can do is choose chickens that are already the same size, color, and breed as the rest of your other chickens. Chickens will noticed when there's an odd bird out and ...

  7. In-ovo sexing - Wikipedia

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    More animal friendly because the day-old male chicks no longer need to be culled, and more sustainable because less energy is used because only the female eggs need to be further incubated after sexing. [5] The male eggs are sorted out and can be used for different purposes such as an alternative high-value protein source. [6]

  8. Whole chicken and turkey prices spiked not just because of the bird flu outbreak, but also widespread inflation, according to the AP. Whole chickens went from an average of $1.62 per pound in ...

  9. Oviparity - Wikipedia

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    (True) oviparity, in which fertilization is internal, is taken to be the derived condition, whether the male injects the sperm into the female intromittently or whether she actively or passively picks it up — the female lays eggs containing zygotes with a substantial quantity of yolk to feed the embryo while it remains in the egg, and in many ...