Is poultry debeaking still being practiced now?!
Answers: is it?
It certainly is in Australia (and in other countries too). It's to stop the chickens from hurting each other when peck each other aggressively. But they only do this because they're kept in such large numbers that they can't cope socially (chickens left to their own devices usually hang out in groups of 5 or 6 -- not 50 or 60 thousand). Even free-range chickens are routinely de-beaked, because they're kept in massive numbers too.
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yes to stop feather pecking,,, want me to do yours?
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Yes they still de-beak. They claim it's to prevent pecking at other chickens but in reality the birds become so distraght they will try to kill themselves and in doing this they will become infected which can spread to other chickens. Most people inject the birds anyways with amoxicilian but with so many bacterial strands building up a resistance to modern antibiotics this hardly does any good.