Chicks killed, crushed and trodden on at award-winning hatchery, disturbing video appears to show
by Jane Dalton
Mar 29, 2024
3 minutes
Chicks were crushed under trolley wheels, trodden on and injured as they were thrown into crates, an undercover investigator claims.
Secret filming in a hatchery that rears birds for the chicken meat industry also appears to show chicks left injured and sometimes bloodied by accidents.
The first investigation of its kind in a broiler chick hatchery claims to reveal how young birds are treated on production lines.
Those deemed not fit for sale to chicken farms were sent down a chute into a macerator to be ground up alive, it is alleged.
The company, Annyalla, says it produces three million,.
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