Westover, Maryland - March 20, 2017: Pictured is the sterilization station inside Perdue's Westover Test Farm's hatchery in Westover, Md. The small hatchery can hatch 23,400 chicks -- each chick is sterilized individually at the station. A normal sized hatchery hatches 80,000-200,000 eggs several times a week, and uses a more efficient method to sterilizes chicks.
The test farm hatches, houses, and studies the differences between slow growth chickens and their conventional chickens.
CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
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