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This project aims to eliminate the culling of male chicks in the poultry industry by developing a method for determining the sex of embryos before hatching. The technology will allow hatcheries to avoid unnecessary culling, saving both costs and lives while contributing to the food supply.
In the layer industry, chicks are culled (culling is the process of killing newly hatched poultry for which the industry has no use) by billions on an annually basis via suffocation or grinding or even more cruel methods.
The males are terminated since they are not useful for laying eggs or to be bread for meat and the weak or unhealthy females are being terminated as well.
Thus, more than 7 billion male chicks are killed on day of hatching generating an annual loss of ~1 Billion Dollars (cost o…
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