Thoughts on culling...when and/or when not to?

[Jazi]

I dont 100% percent agree with that. The definition of culling:
cull (kl)
tr.v. culled, cull·ing, culls
1. To pick out from others; select.
2. To gather; collect.
3. To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).
n.
[b]Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.[b]
[Middle English cullen, from Old French cuillir, from Latin colligere; see collect1.]

Focusing mainly on this, since I piped up only for the fact part and not the opinion (which is yours and completely fine to have :3 )

Definition of CULL

transitive verb
1
: to select from a group : choose <culled the best passages from the poet's work>
2
: to reduce or control the size of (as a herd) by removal (as by hunting) of especially weaker animals; also : to hunt or kill (animals) as a means of population control
— cull·er noun

Really depends on context. When done to livestock (why would you kill off healthy animals that fit standard instead of letting them grow to be eaten or sell them off?) or pet mammals, it's the removal of weaker and non-standard genes from the breeding pool. In livestock, that usually means death (why waste resources on animals that will not give max production?). In pet mammals, if they can survive, it usually means spay/neuter asap and rehome to a pet-only environment. Some breeders will kill the nonstandard pups, but that is becoming a lot rare due to the popularity of the spay/neuter cull instead. In animals that are hunted, culling is population control for things such as deer, wolf, and feral pig populations. Again, it might be different in the context of reptiles, but outside of that culling is not just people killing off healthy animals just to create a pretend limited resource.