Nearly 8 Billion Male Chicks Culled Per Year: A Transparent Global Estimate (Faunalytics) by JLRiedi

Fau­n­a­lyt­ics has pub­lished a new re­port es­ti­mat­ing global male chick cul­ling — the kil­ling of male chicks in the egg in­dus­try, usu­ally within hours of hatch­ing — at 7.83 billion in 2024, up about 11% from 7.08 billion in 2019. Here’s why it may in­ter­est this com­mu­nity.Scale. At nearly 8 billion in­di­vi­d­u­als a year, chick cul­ling is one of the largest-scale an­i­mal welfare prob­lems in the world. If male chicks were counted in global land-an­i­mal slaugh­ter statis­tics, t...