Chick sexing is the method of distinguishing the sex of chicken hatchlings, usually by a trained person called a chick sexer or chicken sexer. Chicken sexing is practised mostly by large commercial hatcheries, who have two different feeding programmes, one for the females (or hens) who are destined to lay eggs for commercial sale, and the others for the males (or roosters), most of whom will be disposed within days of their hatching because they are irrelevant to egg production. A limited number may be kept and fattened for their meat. The chicken sexer puts the chicken hatchlings on the appropriate track early, enabling those chickens to receive optimal nourishment for their likely commercial role from an early age.Different segments of the poultry industry sex chickens for various reasons. In factory farms that produce eggs, males are unwanted; for meat production, separate male and female lines for breeding are maintained to produce the hybrid birds that are sold for the table, and chicks of the wrong sex in either line are unwanted. Chicks of an unwanted sex are killed almost immediately to reduce costs to the breeder.

The selective breeding of chickens in the last 50 years has led to the entire breed showing health issues that could make them useless as chickens.

Last spring I bought two female pot belly piglets. I put them in my animal pen with my goats & chickens and other assorted animals (6 gay roosters, a duck that has sex with a chicken, and two goats that like to hump the pigs). I also have a little Jack Russell Terrier I call the "Little Pig F#%*er". Full story and pictures of the cross breed.

Doom mongering has suddenly crept back into fashion. A new breed of Chicken Littles has emerged. But these aren't your run-of-the-mill street corner nut jobs warning that the end is nigh. Rather, these are serious thinkers with excellent credentials.

Artist Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, aims for a hybridized breed of chicken that is not focused on notions of specific purity or nationality.

Pam educates Rostik regarding KFC's abuse of chickens: “KFC's suppliers breed chickens to grow so top-heavy that they suffer heart attacks, lung failures, broken legs, and other crippling diseases and injuries. At slaughter, their throats are cut open and they are scalded to death — often while they are still conscious.”