This article originally appeared on Undark. Every year, up to 7 billion day-old male chicks are tossed into shredding machines, gassed, or suffocated in plastic bags — a process known as chick culling ...

Let’s start with some grim news: Every year in America, approximately 300 million male chicks are gassed, ground up, and disposed of, simply because they don’t lay eggs. America’s poultry industry is ...

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. (WANE) An egg farm in North Manchester is set to become the second of its kind in the country. Kipster, an international company which touts itself as a pioneer in sustainable ...

A feral chicken walks outside the Aiea Public Library in Aiea. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue ...

WILTON — It’s a cruel statistic. Each year, U.S. companies will cull about 350 million male chicks shortly after they hatch, needing only the females to lay the nation’s 94 billion table eggs. The ...

In light of the recent avian flu outbreak at a farm in West Bay and the obvious danger of its spread through Cayman’s feral chicken population, which ...

One of Texas’s largest poultry farms will cull nearly 2 million chickens this week after a positive bird flu test, the state Agriculture Commissioner announced Tuesday. Cal-Maine Foods in Farwell ...