Question follow-through · 4961
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the commercial viability of 'day-zero' systems where genetically edited breeding hens ensure only female layer chicks hatch, eliminatin
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the commercial viability of 'day-zero' systems where genetically edited breeding hens ensure only female layer chicks hatch, eliminatin
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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10 Jun 2026
Answer published
As stated in the recently published Animal Welfare Strategy Defra will encourage industry to end the practice of culling male laying hen chicks. In recent years there has been rapid global progress in a range of technologies that could help end the routin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Livestock: Weather
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