Eggs are delicious but how are the chicks that lay them selected? Hatchery massacre unveiled...

This is the reality for millions of chicks in Britain every year.

Fluffy yellow youngsters travel on conveyor belts at hatcheries dotted across the country – half to their death, the other half to egg farms.

The males are immediately discarded – and either gassed or thrown into macerating machines, which kill instantly.

Undercover filming by the campaigning welfare group Viva has captured the reality of the early days of factory farm chickens.

Once hatched, the chicks are placed onto a conveyor belt system to be sexed and sorted. More...

Video: Hatchery horrors...

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