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  2. Chick culling - Wikipedia

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    Male chicks on a macerator conveyor belt, seconds before they are killed Chicks ground by a macerator. Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal farming industry has no use.

  3. Hatchery - Wikipedia

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    A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It may be used for ex situ conservation purposes, i.e. to breed rare or endangered species under controlled conditions; alternatively, it may be for economic reasons (i.e. to enhance food supplies or ...

  4. Chick sexing - Wikipedia

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    Chicken sexing is practiced mostly by large commercial hatcheries to separate female chicks or "pullets" (destined to lay eggs for commercial sale) from the males or "cockerels" (most of which are killed within days of hatching because they are irrelevant to egg production).

  5. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    Five-day-old broiler strain Cornish-Rock chicks. Hatcheries take the fertilized eggs, incubate them, and produce day-old broiler chicks. [citation needed] Incubation takes about 21 days, and is often a two-step process. Initial incubation is done in machines known as setters. A modern setter is the size of a large room, with a central corridor ...

  6. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ... A farmer receives the birds from the hatchery at one day old. A ...

  7. Perdue Farms - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded in 1920 by Arthur Perdue [1] with his wife, Pearl Perdue, who had been keeping a small flock of chickens. [4] The company started out selling table eggs, then in 1925, Perdue built the company's first hatchery, and switched to selling layer chicks to farmers instead of eggs. [4]

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