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Title: | Bioimpedance-measurement-based non-invasive method for in ovo chicken egg sexing | Authors: | Ching, CTS Wang, CK Tang, PC Ha, MK Li, C Chiu, HN Yao, FYD Nhan, NC Hieu, NV Phan, TL |
Issue Date: | Apr-2023 | Source: | Biosensors, Apr. 2023, v. 13, no. 4, 440 | Abstract: | Day-old male chick culling is one of the world’s most inhumane problems in the poultry industry. Every year, seven billion male chicks are slaughtered in laying-hen hatcheries due to their higher feed exchange rate, lower management than female chicks, and higher production costs. This study describes a novel non-invasive method for determining the gender of chicken eggs. During the incubation period of fourteen days, four electrodes were attached to each egg for data collection. On the last day of incubation, a standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based chicken gender determination protocol was applied to the eggs to obtain the gender information. A relationship was built between the collected data and the egg’s gender, and it was discovered to have a reliable connection, indicating that the chicken egg gender can be determined by measuring the impedance data of the eggs on day 9 of incubation with the four electrodes set and using the self-normalization technique. This is a groundbreaking discovery, demonstrating that impedance spectroscopy can be used to sex chicken eggs before they hatch, relieving the poultry industry of such an ethical burden. | Keywords: | Bioimpedance Egg gender Egg sexing In ovo Non-invasive |
Publisher: | MDPI AG | Journal: | Biosensors | EISSN: | 2079-6374 | DOI: | 10.3390/bios13040440 | Rights: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Ching CTS, Wang C-K, Tang P-C, Ha M-K, Li C, Chiu H-N, Yao FY-D, Nhan NC, Hieu NV, Phan T-L. Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing. Biosensors. 2023; 13(4):440 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/bios13040440. |
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