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Culture shock (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At least here in the UK, unless you directly see where that egg was laid, assume it was horrific.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I went to an egg farm in wales this summer and it was pretty nice. Lots of chickens but they go out to roam every day. Eggs were delicious and bright orange yolks.

[–] iAvicenna -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

ah yes one of the display farms where faeries live and everyone is singing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Dunno where you live, but those things exist in great quantity. You just have to pay a lot more. And if there are no eggs available, there are no eggs available. Simple as that. We actually shop there more to pet the chickens than to buy their period 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, my wife’s childhood friend runs a small farm with her husband and kid.

It’s a farm.

There are sheep and chickens. A dog to help with the sheep.

They aren’t rich. The chickens are not abused as far as I could tell. They are egg laying chickens. At some point they don’t lay eggs well and then they get sold. There is no retirement plan for old hens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Also, just to be clear I’m sure many places are horrible. I’m just talking about one that I recently went to.

[–] iAvicenna 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

not to mention male chick culling

[–] Eheran 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Better than keeping them around under atrocious conditions because their meat has a low value. Like they did in Germany once killing the males was illegal: Just deport to Poland.

Now all the people that got their law are crying again, because it is far more cruel now. I mean what did they expect?

[–] iAvicenna 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

even if we completely disregard the possibility of not producing so many eggs (reduced consumption of meat and eggs to start with) tech is moving forward. There are more and more reliable ways of determining if the chick will be male by physical and spectroscopic assays so you can determine the gender within a week of hatching and at least dispose of the egg (nervous system seems to develop after this period).

[–] Eheran 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is future tech, not today tech.

[–] iAvicenna 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

not really, it seems to have evolved enough to be considered a serious probability and large scale trials

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-ovo_sexing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9832119/

[–] Eheran 1 points 2 months ago

Let's hope this works out.