For every chicken that hatches our eggs, a rooster is gassed, but a solution is in sight

It is the harsh reality: for every chicken that hatches the egg we eat, a rooster is gassed immediately after birth. But now there is the Ella machine from the Leiden company In Ovo. Thanks to a new technique, the mass killing of baby roosters is no longer necessary, something that is already prohibited in Germany. “So there is also a lot of demand for concepts like these.”

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