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Owners often talk about getting free eggs from their backyard chickens, but they do come at a cost. There’s a reason why people call that very first egg you get a $1,000 egg .
Cannibalism in poultry is the act of one individual of a poultry species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. It commonly occurs in flocks of domestic hens reared for egg production, although it can also occur in domestic turkeys , pheasants and other poultry species. [ 1 ]
A 2024 study of attitudes toward chickens found that 13% of U.S. households now own a collective 85 million backyard chickens, with an average of five per owner. A survey of 2,000 chicken carers ...
Whether you live in the sticks or a gated community in the suburbs, chances are you’ve got chickens on the brain. You’re not alone—more than 12 million Americans are tending to happy ...
Assessing the distress of chicks and the effect of the presence of their mother has been investigated using an air-puff treatment. Each treatment chick and control were exposed to puffs of air applied to their eyes in the presence and absence of their mothers. The responses interpreted as distress in the chicks were:
Chicken eyeglasses are an alternative to beak trimming, which removes approximately one-third of the beak by a cold or heated blade or an infrared beam, usually when chicks are one day old. Eyeglasses are often effective in reducing pecking injuries but cause pain and significantly affect chicken welfare.
In the 2010s, scientists developed technologies to determine the sexes of chicks when they are still in their eggs (in-ovo sexing). Germany and France jointly became the first countries in the world to prohibit all chick killing from 1 January 2022, and called on other EU member states to do the same. [ 8 ]
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