Here's how France is using 'in-ovo sexing' after partially banning the culling of male chicks earlier this year. At the start of this year, France promised to ban the culling of male chicks in the egg ...

Each year, 50 million male chicks are culled in this way, Julien Denormandie said in an interview posted on the website of daily Le Parisien. Only females, future egg-laying hens, are kept alive.

Here's how France is using 'in-ovo sexing' after partially banning the culling of male chicks earlier this year.

PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - France will ban from next year the killing of male chicks by crushing or gassing, a practice denounced as barbaric by animal welfare groups, and will push for a similar ...