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The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing (2017)
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#12I've worked with chickens for years. Among lay people, being able to correctly sex a chicken after 2-3 weeks is a difficult skill. It's incredibly interesting that these people are able to do it so easily at such an early age. It's also put to very disturbing uses. The females go on to be used as layer hens and the males are kill within hours of hatching - generally in gruesome/painful ways.
I thought the males were just thrown into the mincer, dying within the instant they hit the blades? It looks gruesome, but I would hardly call it painful.
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#13I've worked with chickens for years. Among lay people, being able to correctly sex a chicken after 2-3 weeks is a difficult skill. It's incredibly interesting that these people are able to do it so easily at such an early age. It's also put to very disturbing uses. The females go on to be used as layer hens and the males are kill within hours of hatching - generally in gruesome/painful ways.
Is it more disturbing to kill the males on the day they hatch or weeks later?
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#14Any progress on genetically engineering chicken so that only female chicks are produced, or even better artificially producing eggs without any chickens at all?
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#15I've worked with chickens for years. Among lay people, being able to correctly sex a chicken after 2-3 weeks is a difficult skill. It's incredibly interesting that these people are able to do it so easily at such an early age. It's also put to very disturbing uses. The females go on to be used as layer hens and the males are kill within hours of hatching - generally in gruesome/painful ways.
I thought the males were just thrown into the mincer, dying within the instant they hit the blades? It looks gruesome, but I would hardly call it painful.
shameful of humans
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#16I've worked with chickens for years. Among lay people, being able to correctly sex a chicken after 2-3 weeks is a difficult skill. It's incredibly interesting that these people are able to do it so easily at such an early age. It's also put to very disturbing uses. The females go on to be used as layer hens and the males are kill within hours of hatching - generally in gruesome/painful ways.
I cannot for the life of me remember the context, but I remember reading about skills that can't be taught; only learned; chicken-sexing was one of these.
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#17This whole thing just sounds like a dream for ML. Have anyone tried it yet?
Yeah I work at a face recognition company and have done a lot of work with sex classifiers and I'm pretty curious.
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#18Any progress on genetically engineering chicken so that only female chicks are produced, or even better artificially producing eggs without any chickens at all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_link At least they color female chicks a different color.
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#19If it is such a gestalt, not explainable function. I am almost certain it isn't just visual. It would be interesting to see the level of accuracy with just video of the vent exposure. Even more so, just an image.
The article states the sexers accidentally kill some chicks at first when learning because of the force required to expose the vents. The force required could provide some clue. The way the vent moves under some manipulations could make a difference.
I would rather the whole thing be solved with ultrasonic or some other imaging well before hatching.
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#20I've worked with chickens for years. Among lay people, being able to correctly sex a chicken after 2-3 weeks is a difficult skill. It's incredibly interesting that these people are able to do it so easily at such an early age. It's also put to very disturbing uses. The females go on to be used as layer hens and the males are kill within hours of hatching - generally in gruesome/painful ways.
Gruesome, but I would dispute painful. The present state of things is the least bad it could be while still allowing us to enjoy the prices we do.