And end to male chick slaughter?
More developments are being made to end the culling of male chicks which could soon be a thing of the past in the UK thanks to the launch of a method which identifies the gender of a hatching egg. German company SELEGGT have developed a market-ready process whereby fluid is extracted via a 0.3 millimetre hole. The process is non-invasive and leaves the inside of the egg intact. A colour marker will then use the fluid to identify if the egg is female or not and, if so, only these eggs will hatch after 21 days of incubation. The process will be available to hatcheries by 2020.
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