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The hatchery
Last updated 6 August 2020
The hatchery is where fertile eggs are incubated until they hatch.
Eggs are incubated for a total of 21 days before hatching. Once hatched, broiler chickens are sorted to remove any deformed, sick or abnormal chickens. The chicks that are removed are then killed on-site.
The two most common methods used for killing defective chicks are maceration and carbon dioxide.
A macerator is a large industrial machine that grinds chickens up alive. Chicks killed with carbon dioxide are put into small gas chambers into which the CO2 is released, suffocating them.
