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It looks like toilet paper and disinfectant wipes aren’t the only things people hoarded during this pandemic. The nation’s biggest chicken hatcheries are reporting they are currently sold out of baby ...

Everyone is after the same thing: baby chickens. The high price of eggs is creating a demand for chickens. Nationwide, the demand has far outstripped supply, leaving would-be poulterers scrambling to ...

It’s a particularly gruesome part of the chicken industry: When chicks are born at hatcheries, the males are immediately thrown in grinders and “live-shredded” to death, or killed by suffocation or ...

Rick Cairns knew, if he wanted to get baby chickens in on time this year, he would have to place his order early. In January, the Greensburg Agway owner put in his first order with Hoover’s Hatchery ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Shocking and disturbing pictures you’ll see on just one station: live newborn chickens an insider tells 7 Investigates are being shipped across the country — arriving in Boston dead or ...

Thousands of baby chicks that were stuck in a U.S. Postal Service truck for days have been adopted, according to the Delaware animal shelter that helped rescue them. “Every single one went to a ‘no ...