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The original was posted on /r/upliftingnews by /u/Alarming-Maximum-468 on 2025-07-22 17:47:09+00:00.

Article excerpt: “Data supplied showed that of the 393 million commercial laying hens in production in the EU, 102.3 million to 117.9 million of them were sexed with in-ovo technology, implying a market penetration of 26-30%. This marks an 8 percentage point increase from 1 year ago, when the market penetration in the EU was found to be 20%. This remarkable jump lines up with a rapid increase in in-ovo sexing capacity between late 2023 and early 2025.”

For context: chick culling is a practice in the egg industry where male chicks are killed shortly after birth due to being unprofitable to raise into adulthood. Thanks to the development of in-ovo sexing technology, egg producers now have the ability to avoid chick culling entirely. This has resulted in at least 115 million chicks saved so far, and these numbers will only increase as the technology is adopted more.