New York Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Chick-Hatching Projects
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM UPC United Poultry Concerns
January 2019

 

ACTION

“This is a barren, sterile experiment which is miserable for the chicks.”
– Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns,

This bill has the potential to stop the use of thousands of chicks throughout New York State and could set a precedent for other states as well.

Assembly Bill A00058 actions and votes

Find and contact New York Assembly Members HERE.

Please express your support to the bill’s sponsor here:

Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, District 67
230 West 72nd Street
Suite 2F
New York, NY 10023
212-873-6368

LOB 627
Albany, NY 12248
518-455-5802M

[email protected] 
www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Linda-B-Rosenthal

INFORMATION

Justifications for NYS Assembly Bill A00058:

Many primary school teachers use chick-hatching projects as a way to teach their students about life cycles in the classroom. However, schools do not have the proper resources to care for baby chicks during or after the incubation phase.

During the incubation process, eggs may hatch on weekends when teachers and administrators are not in school, effectively allowing a baby chick to go unfed for a period of days once it is born. Heat lamps may also be turned off over the weekend, which can cause chicks to die in their shells or become immobile. In other instances, baby chicks die when eggs in the incubator are constantly handled.

Schools rarely make accommodations to care for the surviving baby chicks, many of whom are born sick, once the on-hands experiment is complete. Baby chicks are left in cardboard boxes without food or water, they are given to overburdened shelters that do not have the capacity to care for sick chicks and most are simply discarded. In an effort to curtail the inhumane use of baby chicks, this bill would prohibit school districts, school principals, administrators or teachers from utilizing animals in hatching projects.

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