Sorting chicks
Source: CIWF
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Sorting chicks
Just hatched, these chicks are sorted onto conveyor belts and packed into crates on their way to rearing sheds. Except on execptional farms, a free-range chick will be treated the same as an intensively farmed chick for roughly the first two weeks.
A recent EU directive has been put in place to measure the welfare of intensively reared chickens.
CIWF; Ellis, Hattie, 'Planet Chicken', London, 2007 (p.188)
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