Sunday, 29 May 2016

Chicken embryo tests can prevent practice of gassing billions of cockerels

Chicken embryo tests can prevent practice of gassing billions of cockerels

The current practice of gassing billions of male chicks within a day of hatching because they cannot lay eggs could be stopped thanks to a new embryo gender test. Globally some 3.2 billion cockerels are killed within hours of breaking free of their eggs each year. Now Dutch scientists have developed a simple test that identifies the sex of chicken embryos within eggs, meaning males could be terminated long before hatching.

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