Preventing male chick slaughter

A fifth Israeli startup has a technical solution to the problem of preventing the hatching of unwanted male chicks (see here previously).  NRS Poultry, a research group at Israel’s Volcani Institute, is developing a way to stop a hen’s male-producing Z chromosome being transferred to the egg.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-aims-to-block-hatching-of-billions-of-male-chicks-fated-for-culling/

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