A system that determines the sex of chicks before they hatch eliminates the need to destroy young males. By Cara Buckley The egg industry hides a dark secret. Every year in the United States, more ...

For the first time, several major US egg producers have committed to using a new technology called “in-ovo sexing” that can determine the sex of chicken embryos before they hatch. (See AWI Quarterly, ...

Technology introduced to determine the sex of a chick in brown layer hatching eggs before hatching, a significant technological development for the U.S. egg industry The machine, called Cheggy, is the ...