Making the case for culling day-old layer males

For some years now, the pressure has been on hatcheries to find alternatives to the culling of day-old layer males. The siblings of layer hens should be either raised for a purpose or their hatch prevented by early sex determination in ovo. Austrian hatcheries have now made the case that humanely culling day-old layer males makes sense as they have a purpose as predator feed. By 2020, it was clear that Germany would ban the culling of day-old layer males directly after hatch. In the run-up to