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Where eggs become livestock before they've even picked a personality.
means A facility where eggs — fish, poultry, or other livestock — are incubated and hatched in controlled conditions, usually for commercial breeding.
from Straightforward carpentry of English: 'hatch' (to bring young from an egg, itself likely related to Old English/Germanic roots for breaking open or bringing forth) plus the busy, place-naming suffix '-ery' (as in 'bakery' or 'brewery'), which turns an action into a building where that action happens industrially. No hidden drama here — the word is exactly as literal as it sounds, coined once egg-hatching became less a hen's private affair and more a scaled-up operation needing its own name.
- salmon origin
- most Pacific salmon now start life in one
- chicken sexing
- workers sort chicks by sex within hours of hatching
- male chicks
- unwanted males are often culled on day one
- scale
- a single facility can hatch millions of eggs yearly