Every year, six billion newborn chicks are killed at egg-laying facilities around the world. Usually, they’re either gassed or shredded to death en masse. These aren’t accidental killings, but rather, ...

More than 45 million male chicks are killed annually in the UK, but campaigners, politicians and high-profile figures are ...

Kipster, which claims to be “the first carbon-neutral” egg hatchery in the world, will also be the first to sell eggs in the U.S. using a new kind of technology, one that aims to improve animal ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, chick culling, the routine killing of newly hatched male chicks because they cannot lay eggs and are not considered profitable by the egg ...

With Easter just around the corner, we are surrounded by a ubiquity of eggs and adorable yellow chicks that symbolize life and resurrection. In stark contrast is the fact that around seven billion ...

Introduction: The 7 Billion Male Chick Problem and the Shift to "In-Ovo Sexing"The legal regulation banning the culling of ...

United Egg Producers (UEP), an industry group representing the interests of egg farmers throughout the United States, says it will seek to eliminate the culling of male chicks. Because male chicks ...