Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 55934

Poultry: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing in-ovo sexing technologies within UK hatcheries.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. In its 2024 ‘Opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries’, the An...

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