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Process of killing newly hatched chicks for which the industry has no use
Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal
Chick_culling
Method to determine the sex of chickens
male culling after hatching. Now that it has become possible to cull male chicks prior to hatching, the tradition practice of culling male chicks after
In-ovo_sexing
Process of segregating organisms in biology
willing to cull our own species we cannot morally justify culling another. There are non-lethal alternatives which may still be considered culling, and serve
Culling
Method of distinguishing the sex of chickens and other hatchlings
light can identify either testis or ovaries.[citation needed] Sexing Chick culling Delayed feathering in chickens Kemsley, Max (3 June 2010). "Chicken
Chick_sexing
Agricultural technology
meat production, therefore, they are culled soon after being sexed, often on the day of hatching. Methods of culling include cervical dislocation, asphyxiation
Battery_cage
American actress (born 1930)
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Tippi_Hedren
Indian spiritual leader, philosopher, author and former civil sevent
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Acharya_Prashant
American comedian and television host (born 1956)
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Bill_Maher
Veterinary procedure
Animal chaplains Animal loss Animal slaughter British Pet Massacre Chick culling Overpopulation in companion animals AVMA Panel on Euthanasia. American
Animal_euthanasia
American media personality (1923–2023)
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Bob_Barker
French actress and activist (1934–2025)
phayul.com; accessed 4 August 2015. "Bardot condemns Australia's plan to cull 2 million feral cats". ABC News. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2017. "Manifestations
Brigitte_Bardot
American photographer and musician (1941–1998)
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Linda_McCartney
American actor (born 1974)
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Joaquin_Phoenix
German philosopher (1788–1860)
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Arthur_Schopenhauer
Practice used in the pork industry
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Feedback_(pork_industry)
2003 film by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legally_Blonde_2:_Red,_White_&_Blonde
Irish actress and activist (born 1991)
world for the better". In November 2017, Lynch founded the podcast The ChickPeeps, co-hosted by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix actor Robbie
Evanna_Lynch
Abstaining from the consumption of meat
Hunting Fishing Calf hutch Captivity Circuses Exotic pet Oceanariums Zoos Chick culling Companion animals Abandonment Puppy mills Consumption Cats Cattle Dogs
Vegetarianism
Experimental surgery
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Vivisection
Filipino fried chicken hatchling
day-old chick (also Super-Chick or Day-0) is a Filipino cuisine fried chicken hatchling. Typically made from male chicks procured from chick culling at poultry
Day-old_chick
English singer (born 1959)
"I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" and highlights the journey of a young chick. In January 2006 Morrissey attracted criticism when he stated that he accepts
Morrissey
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List_of_Tiger_King_subjects
Negligent or abusive action against animals by humans
maceration subject to certain conditions, but recommends alternative methods of culling as more humane. Egg-laying hens are then transferred to "battery cages"
Cruelty_to_animals
Breed of fast-growing chicken
2875/729456. Efskind, Kaja (2026-01-19). "Ross 308 to be phased out and chick culling given end date". Dyrevernalliansen (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved
Ross_308
Physical contest involving a matador and a bull
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Bullfighting
English philosopher and jurist (1748–1832)
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Jeremy_Bentham
International animal nonprofit
States—announced that it will eliminate the culling of male chicks by 2020. Chick culling refers to the routine killing of male chicks (which are useless for meat or
The_Humane_League
Topics referred to by the same term
is kept constantly wet Maceration, in poultry farming, a method of chick culling This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maceration
Maceration
Non-usage of animal products
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Veganism
American actress (b. 1959)
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Pamelyn_Ferdin
Indian politician (born 1956)
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Maneka_Gandhi
American animal rights organization
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals
Killing of animals for human food
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Animal_slaughter
Well-being of non-human animals
This leads to further concerns about premature slaughtering such as chick culling by the laying hen industry, in which males are slaughtered immediately
Animal_welfare
Branch of agriculture
animals through high intensity, assembly line type processes – such as this chick processing line. For example, in the UK, debeaking of chickens is deprecated
Intensive_animal_farming
American conservationist (born 1961)
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Carole_Baskin
2020 death of animal rights protester in Canada
rights when she was 24 years old, with her first protest against seal culling taking place outside a government building in Winnipeg. In 1985, she read
Death_of_Regan_Russell
Fad in American colleges in the late 1930s
Hunting Fishing Calf hutch Captivity Circuses Exotic pet Oceanariums Zoos Chick culling Companion animals Abandonment Puppy mills Consumption Cats Cattle Dogs
Goldfish_swallowing
Management of farm animals
reach slaughter weight within six or seven weeks of hatching. Newly hatched chicks are confined to a small area and provided with supplementary heating. Litter
Animal_husbandry
Study involving matter and electromagnetic radiation
Developed by French and German companies, both countries decided to ban chick culling, mostly done through a macerator, in 2022. Process monitoring in Industrial
Spectroscopy
Part of animal husbandry
common practice among hatcheries for egg-laying hens is the culling of newly hatched male chicks since they do not lay eggs and do not grow fast enough to
Poultry_farming
Criminal proceedings against animals
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Animal_trial
Edible animal product
sexing to analyze the sex of a chick before it hatches, allowing them to remove male eggs from incubation and avoid chick culling. As of April 2025, five companies
Eggs_as_food
Material derived from non-human animal body
deforestation to the welfare implications of using chick culling shredders on live day old-chicks for 7 billion of them each year. Several popular diet
Animal_product
Rights belonging to animals
Bibliography of animal rights Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness Chick culling Cruelty to animals Critical animal studies Deep ecology Do Animals Have
Animal_rights
Practice of breeding or raising animals for their fur
Although the Danish government halted the mandatory culling in mid-November, it still recommended culling, which continued on a voluntary basis. Industry
Fur_farming
Animal rights protest camp in England
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Camp_Beagle
English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)
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John_Galsworthy
2005 US documentary film by Shaun Monson
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Earthlings_(film)
Searching, pursuing, and killing wild animals
Coyote hunting Bobcat hunting Varmint hunting Rabbiting Rook shooting Culling Commercial hunting and traditional sustenance hunting Seal hunting Whaling
Hunting
in a wide range of species including rats, dogs, rhesus macaques, sheep, chicks, starlings and honeybees. The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux advocates avoiding
Animal_consciousness
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Pain_in_invertebrates
on chick culling Ban on all chick culling Grinding chicks illegal, gassing chicks legal Planned ban on all chick culling Chick culling legal
Animal rights by country or territory
Animal_rights_by_country_or_territory
scrutiny. Thorndike's careful observations of the escape of cats, dogs, and chicks from puzzle boxes led him to conclude that what appears to the naive human
Animal_cognition
American community activist
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Charlotte_Laws
Copyright dispute involving Celebes crested macaques
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Monkey selfie copyright dispute
Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute
Device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys
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Pit_of_despair
Animal slaughter in Islamic law
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Dhabihah
Transplantation of cells or tissue across species
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Xenotransplantation
Any entertainment sport where blood is commonly shed
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Blood_sport
Legal action against and by activists
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McLibel_case
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Legal aspects of ritual slaughter
Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter
1880s-1890s electric power transmission system dispute
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War_of_the_currents
Monument in Novosibirsk, Russia
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Monument to the laboratory mouse
Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse
Canadian internet personality (born 1964)
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That_Vegan_Teacher
Ritual
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Animal_sacrifice
Ancient Indian principle of nonviolence
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Ahimsa
2021 documentary about the environmental effects of fishing
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Seaspiracy
Animal rights direct action organization
involved in the annual seal cull off the coast of Norfolk; according to Molland, this incident contributed to the cessation of the cull. Between June and August
Animal_Liberation_Front
French writer and Buddhist monk
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Matthieu_Ricard
Type of bullfighting
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Spanish-style_bullfighting
Ritual animal sacrifice in Islam
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Qurban
Philosophical term on species treatment
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Speciesism
Philosophical concept of animals as automata
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Animal_machine
Use of animals in experiments
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Animal_testing
Ability to experience feelings and sensations
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Sentience
British animal rights activist, filmmaker and lecturer
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Ed_Winters
British actress (born 1931)
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Virginia_McKenna
Human consumption of live aquatic organisms
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Eating_live_seafood
Bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile
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Bile_bear
Practice of eating animals that are still alive
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Eating_live_animals
American philosopher and academic (born 1947)
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Martha_Nussbaum
Animal rights exhibition
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Holocaust_on_your_Plate
Personal or commercial hunting of marine mammal
off during the culling in the early morning hours, journalists are not allowed to enter. Namibia's SPCA is allowed to observe the culling from 2010 onwards
Seal_hunting
Australian moral philosopher (born 1946)
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Peter_Singer
Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)
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Rukmini_Devi_Arundale
American identical twin sister models
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Barbi_Twins
American legal scholar (born 1954)
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Cass_Sunstein
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Pain_in_fish
Facility where animals are slaughtered for meat
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Slaughterhouse
Practice of separating calves and mothers
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Cow-calf_separation
Control of harmful species
pests in addition to other traits. Pest control can also be achieved via culling the pest animals — generally small- to medium-sized wild or feral mammals
Pest_control
2018 Australian film
through methods such as using carbon dioxide to gas pigs, maceration of chicks, and skinning foxes alive. Dominion was managed by the animal protection
Dominion_(2018_film)
Social movement for animal consideration
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Animal_rights_movement
British Vegan Documentary Film
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I_Could_Never_Go_Vegan
2011 American film
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Forks_Over_Knives
2009 documentary film by Louie Psihoyos
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The_Cove_(film)
South African and Australian writer (born 1940)
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J._M._Coetzee
Ritual slaughter of an animal in Jewish law
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Shechita
Suffering of wild animals due to natural processes
animal ethics. She discusses harms caused by humans, including hunting, culling, and predator reintroduction, and harms from natural causes, including
Wild_animal_suffering
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
Male
Portuguese
 Pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisco, CHICO means "French." Compare with another form of Chico.
Boy/Male
Czechoslovakian
Thick.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Crick in Northamptonshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Crec, from Celtic creig ‘rock’, ‘cliff’.Possibly an Americanized spelling of any of the names mentioned at Creek 3.
Surname or Lastname
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : see Cleek.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Klick, Jewish Glick, or German and Jewish Glück (see Gluck).
Boy/Male
American, British, English, German
Man
Boy/Male
English American
A from the Old English 'ceorl' meaning man. Famous bearer: American singer Chuck Berry.
Girl/Female
British, English
Form of Charles; Man
Girl/Female
Spanish
little girl.
Male
Spanish
 Spanish name CHICO means "small." Compare with another form of Chico.
Female
Spanish
Variant spelling of Spanish Chickie, CHICKY means "little one."
Boy/Male
Indian
Chick Style
Female
Spanish
Pet form of Portuguese/Spanish Francisca, CHICA means "French."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English chike ‘young fowl’ (a shortened form of chiken), applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred poultry for the table, or as a nickname from the same word used as a term of endearment.English : variant of Cheek.
Boy/Male
English
a man.
Girl/Female
German
Fruit
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English thikke ‘thick-set’, ‘sturdy’, ‘stout’.
Boy/Male
Spanish
Boy; lad. Also Spanish abbreviation of Ezekiel.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Anglo-Norman French chouque ‘tree stump’, possibly applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near a tree stump, or alternatively as a nickname for a person of stumpy build. Compare Such.
Male
English
Pet form of English Charles, CHUCK means "man."
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
Boy/Male
Scottish
From the top of the cliff.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Consent
Male
Russian
(Валерий) Russian form of Roman Latin Valerius, VALERIY means "to be healthy, to be strong."Â
Boy/Male
Arabic, Islamic, Malaysian, Muslim, Pakistani, Urdu
Brightness; Attribute of Allah; Light of Right Guidance
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Full of Happiness
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Morehouse.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Peace maker
Girl/Female
Tamil
A river, Moon light
Girl/Female
Indian
Success, Fulfilment, Money and good luck
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord of life
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
CHICK CULLING
superl.
Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
v. t.
To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
v. t.
To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
v. t.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
n.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
superl.
Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
v. t.
To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.
a.
Having a thick skull; stupid.
adv.
Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
n.
A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
n.
The chuck or call of a hen.
v. t.
To move with the sound of a click.
a.
Affected with thick wind.
n.
Small chick or crack.
adv.
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
n.
The chick-pea.
v. t.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
superl.
Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
superl.
Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.
superl.
Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.