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This page was proposed for deletion by Steven Walling (talk · contribs) on 21 March 2008 with the comment:
Article is far too specific a subject to be a separate article, and merging would be inappropriate as it's content has significant overlap with Culling and Chicken.
It was contested by DGG (talk · contribs) on 21 March 2008 with the comment:
there seem to be distinct sources for it. discuss a merge

AVMA

Please list what happens to these males after they are ground up, i.e. is it used for dog food,fertilizer, etc... How can the American Veterinary Medical Association be both opposed to and approve of this device at the same time?

Why the hell are people sick enough to use this!?!? Mitternacht90 21:37, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, the byproducts of modern society.Thursday Postal 23:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Article needs photographs. Bastie 09:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Contesting Speedy Tag

This doesn't look like a speedyable article to me. The nominator objects to the naming, believing it to be a neologism, and while that's potentially grist for AFD, it's not a speedyable offense. This isn't a bad article; it's got verifiable content and citations, and at most should be re-named to something more topical, if such a name can be found. -Colin Kimbrell 16:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the page anyway since baby is redundant. jimfbleak 16:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a cleanup

This article seems a bit 'all over the place'. I am going to try to fix it up a bit.Darkcraft 11:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to add, I am not an expert on this subject, and I am pro-animal rights, so I may be slightly biased.Darkcraft 11:57, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like this section:

Chicks which are not intended for rearing shall be killed as soon as possible and in any case before they are 72 hours old.
Chicks should be killed by using a mechanically operated apparatus approved for this purpose in accordance with national legislation, designed and operated in such a way as to ensure that all chicks are killed immediately even if they are handled in large numbers.
Gases or gas mixtures may only be used where the procedure is approved under national legislation. Measures shall be taken to ensure rapid death and to avoid suffocation under other birds by putting birds in a single layer and monitoring gas concentrations.
To kill any living embryos instantaneously, all hatchery waste shall be treated without delay using the mechanical apparatus mentioned above or any living embryo must be killed without delay.

but without references to the official body that endorses those particular practices, I don't believe it can be included in the article. If someone could help me with finding a reference or something, I would appreciate it.Darkcraft 12:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What the...?

Everything below 'see also' is not showing up for me in the main article, but is there on the 'edit' page. What is going on? Maybe my browser is just being silly. Oh well I was almost finished anyway, I will come back tomorrow and see if this problem has fixed itself.Darkcraft 12:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I agree, but unfortunatly, the problem didn't fix itself. I will try to tell the people at the village pump what is going on with this "bug" and stuff. Best of luck! --PrestonH 02:52, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's fixed! PrestonH 03:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :D Darkcraft 13:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Reference Link

The third References link, "http://www.upc-online.org/battery_hens/42203woodchipper.htm/" is malformed. With the trailing slash, the target page comes up blank. I am unable to edit the references (clicking "Edit" gives me a blank References section). Could someone with the ability to edit references please trim this trailing slash? Thank you :-) TTK 17:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work spotting that. Even getting rid of the trailing slash for me didn't fix it though. Maybe the site is down or something. I found a similar link anyway, so I will replace it with that.Darkcraft 11:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, nevermind, someone has already fixed it and got that link working. Good work =D Darkcraft 11:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-Neutral Point of View

"Electrocution, a new method that has been touted as being cheap, reliable, and "humane" by its developers". The use of double-quotes around "humane" isn't providing a neutral point of view. It comes across as sarcasm or irony, neither of which belong on a wikipedia page. Newb of wiki (talk) 15:24, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. "Touted as" already indicates that those are the opinions of the developers.--Dodo bird (talk) 02:52, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article has general NPOV issues and has been tagged for POV check. The article's tone and references have a distinctly negative point of view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReasonedTraveler (talk • contribs) 02:32, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You need to be more specific. Pretty much everything is presented in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way, except the single sentence in the controversy section, which is presented as the POV of Animal rights activists. It's difficult to see what exactly is not neutral about this article.--Dodo bird (talk) 02:52, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The source for the suffocation method is several times removed. Putting chicks in plastic bags for suffocation *might* have been used in some 2nd/3rd world country but there are far more efficient methods. Maceration is so rapid (effectively instant) that the animal would feel no pain. There is a distinct "ICK" factor on this page and it should be revised! Smidoid (talk) 14:57, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Chicken nuggets

Aren't these used to make chicken nuggets? Sardonic tradesman (talk) 17:23, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean "Are chicks used to make chicken nuggets?" the answer is "no". This article is about chicks of egg laying strains which only requires females to lay eggs. That is why the males are culled. The meat-bird (broiler) industry grows both males and females and makes nuggets from birds at slaughter age (approx 5-6 weeks of age). DrChrissy ^(talk) 20:39, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]