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male chicks can't be killed any more.

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    #32
    PainInTheArse
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭PainInTheArse


    gozunda wrote: »
    Gas is also used in a lot of the industry. However even this will be redundant once veganism becomes the norm.

    Not used by many smaller scale free range organic producers

    FYP :D


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    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    PainInTheArse wrote: »
    FYP :D

    Bit late to the discussion PITA?

    I see you can't post your own comment - as you obviously don't have the foggiest about that. So fixed it back ... ;)

    gozunda wrote: »
    Gas is also used in a lot of the industry. However even this will be redundant once egg sexing becomes the norm.

    Not used by many smaller scale free range organic producers


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    PainInTheArse
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭PainInTheArse


    gozunda wrote: »
    Bit late to the discussion PITA?

    I see you can't post your own comment - as you obviously don't have the foggiest about that. So fixed it back ... ;)



    Yeah I am a bit late , never really get any free time.

    Its going to be a long time before egg sexing becomes the norm and it will be down to each individual hatchery whether they wish to invest in such technology.

    Sure until then lets just keep grinding up and gassing male chicks (3.2 billion a year) for a product that a lot of us can do without.


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    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    PainInTheArse wrote: »
    Yeah I am a bit late , never really get any free time.
    Its going to be a long time before egg sexing becomes the norm and it will be down to each individual hatchery whether they wish to invest in such technology.Sure until then lets just keep grinding up and gassing male chicks (3.2 billion a year) for a product that a lot of us can do without.

    Yeah strange alright- seems a lot of posters around here say that. A simple reply is just as quick as a throwaway one tbh. But hey no bothers.

    But nope. Incorrect. Sexing of eggs is already in the pipeline and being trialed. The other methods make no sense tbh with regard to welfare and extra cost. But more importantly no one has to buy intensively produced poultry. Source locally or keep your own. Its not that difficult.


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    #36
    rivegauche
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭rivegauche


    gozunda wrote: »
    Source locally or keep your own. Its not that difficult.
    The hawks and martens that visit my garden are immensely grateful.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Ive stopped growing vegetables for the table.
    The screams of those poor little carrots being ripped from the nice warm soil where they grew up :)

    Rohald Dahl even wrote a book about it!

    https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/short-stories/the-sound-machine/


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    rivegauche wrote: »
    The hawks and martens that visit my garden are immensely grateful.

    still easy; we had black backed gulls and reared and hatched fine


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