OKT certification mandatory for table eggs

Since 1 January 2022, all table eggs sold in Germany have to be OKT certified. Egg producers locally or abroad are obliged not to cull male layers siblings (’Ohne Küken Töten’) for the number of layers used to supply the table egg market, either by raising them for meat production or use in-ovo sexing in an early stage of incubation. A few years ago, German egg traders started pushing their layer farmers to ask their pullet suppliers for laying hens whose male siblings weren’t dispose