You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens
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You can now buy eggs from in-ovo sexed hens
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#2Discovered via https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-391
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#3is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
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#4is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
They don't feed them. They grind them up alive then use the resulting slush to feed to other things.
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#5is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
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#6There's no way that math is right. The wikipedia article says the US culls billions of male chicks annually. Was this written by an LLM? heh
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#7People have been killing male chicks, and keeping just a single rooster since the beginning of chickens
Also is the quality of the life of these non-culled female chickens good somehow?
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#9is the consumer vote necessary? it seems like producers might appreciate saving 50% on feeding chicks
They don't feed them. They grind them up alive then use the resulting slush to feed to other things.
what do those chicks eat? IIUC they aren't sexed immediately after hatching? Maybe I'm wrong.
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#10People have been killing male chicks, and keeping just a single rooster since the beginning of chickens Also is the quality of the life of these non-culled female chickens good somehow?
I’m also curious if the tech is real, or if this is just yet another scam designed to separate well-meaning people from their money.