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Potentials of newly selected chicken genotypes for dual-purpose under organic conditions.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Apr 2026
Pluschke H, Thobe P, Desaint B, Reverchon M, Germain K, Witten S, Werner D, von Borell E, Collin A, Baldinger L
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Motivated by consumer concerns for animal welfare, several European countries have recently banned the culling of day-old male chicks from layer lines. Germany and France were the first countries to enact this binding prohibition, and in Germany, Article 1 § 4c of the Tierschutzgesetz (TierSchG) makes it a punishable offence to kill a vertebrate animal without reasonable cause. Economic unprofitability, which is...
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