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2. looks like slavery
3. Wow, I think it's a bit rude how the cynical people just can't help themselves by bringing in the hatcheries culling of male chicks. This looks like a dream to me, and more people should be farming like this. I was absolutely amazed that this was actually an Australian farm, as I haven't seen this brand in my stores in the Northern Territory, and felt that I would try to do something like this if I get into chicken farming, like I plan to do sometime. It's given me great ideas with the tow-able chicken coops as I always wondered how free range eggs were collected with the knowledge in mind that a great number of chickens would eat a paddock of grass pretty quickly....
   
   There will never be someone wanting to take in every rooster in a hatchery, that's just unrealistic. A handful of people wanting a few roosters from a hatchery only saves a couple, and they must order more hens to ensure the hens aren't overmated eg, ordering half and half would be plainly cruel for the chickens as roosters will bash eachother and rape the hens quite badly. I've been handed in hens that have been with just one rooster, and generally they have no feathers neck and back, and sometimes have huge gashes under their wings.
   
   Utilising roosters for meat also would be expencive, which means consumers wont want to buy roosters. If they are caponized, which is considered cruel in some countries (I think Australia included), growth will be faster but still not as fast as a hen's weight gain, plus the surgery is needed to desex birds. If for it to be carried out humanely, anesthesia will be needed. I doubt chicken will cost you $8 uncooked....and people will totally bitch about paying the prices for it.
   
   This is a brilliant set up, I bloody love it. Keep up the good work. I never buy eggs because I have chooks myself, but maybe you guys should branch out to the NT. I would totally recommend you.
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6. This video makes me crazy...
7. Also, do you practice beak clipping, wing trimming, or forced molting?
8. Which likely means that they are culled at the hatchery. 
9. I love how you make the things 'between the line', explicitly in black and white on the line. haha. No doubt a vegan. I agree that they can't contract out the genocide of the male hatchlings, but give them credit for the improvement to the farming practice. Hopefully, they'll be a time that comes when consumers pay the true price for their eggs and chicken meat. By that, I mean, the price includes the cost of looking after the male and female chickens until the end of their natural lives. :)
10. I agree with Emiello. You can't wash you hands clean of the industry's common practice of culling 50% of the chicks that are born in the hatchlings, even though this farm's organic and ethical (as far as it can be) practices is admirable and more consumers are willing to pay a higher premium for a clearer conscience. It's an improvement, so eventually and hopefully, we'll get to a sustainable pace where production and prices stabilise to the point where Emiello's comments can be a reality.
11. But it is in their hands - if they buy chicks from a hatchery that kills male chicks en masse, they're supporting and condoning it. As is anyone who buys eggs. The only way to avoid that is starting their own hatchery and somehow finding homes for 50% of the chicks that they don't want or need. So yes, they still aren't humane.
12. What does that have to do with them? What happens to caged hens? do you see these hens in cages?
13. Thats unfair. What the hatchery does is out of their hands.
14. By which you mean they're either ground up alive, suffocated, gassed, or left to die in bins, and you don't want to admit that to preserve your 'humane' reputation.
15. great video.
16. Best eggs I've tasted in Australia! Keep up the great work guys!
17. @brianv00 We buy in all our chicks at day old and only buy in Female chicks, the male chicks stay at the Hatchery.
18. What happens to the male chicks?
19. Canada sucks sometimes !! I can't do this type of farming, all my chicken will be frozen !!
20. The dogs are Maremma's, they grow up with the chickens from a young age and then bond to the chickens and see the chickens as their friends, they want to protect chickens from any predators. they are great dogs, we use alpacas also and we will have videos of alpacas up shortly.