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Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing
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 describ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10135836/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37185515 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13040440 |
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author | Ching, Congo Tak Shing Wang, Chien-Kai Tang, Pin-Chi Ha, Minh-Khue Li, Chin Chiu, Hsuan-Ni Yao, Fiona Yan-Dong Nhan, Nguyen Chi Hieu, Nguyen Van Phan, Thien-Luan |
author_facet | Ching, Congo Tak Shing Wang, Chien-Kai Tang, Pin-Chi Ha, Minh-Khue Li, Chin Chiu, Hsuan-Ni Yao, Fiona Yan-Dong Nhan, Nguyen Chi Hieu, Nguyen Van Phan, Thien-Luan |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-101358362023-04-28 Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing Ching, Congo Tak Shing Wang, Chien-Kai Tang, Pin-Chi Ha, Minh-Khue Li, Chin Chiu, Hsuan-Ni Yao, Fiona Yan-Dong Nhan, Nguyen Chi Hieu, Nguyen Van Phan, Thien-Luan Biosensors (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10135836/ /pubmed/37185515 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13040440 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ching, Congo Tak Shing Wang, Chien-Kai Tang, Pin-Chi Ha, Minh-Khue Li, Chin Chiu, Hsuan-Ni Yao, Fiona Yan-Dong Nhan, Nguyen Chi Hieu, Nguyen Van Phan, Thien-Luan Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title | Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title_full | Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title_fullStr | Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title_full_unstemmed | Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title_short | Bioimpedance-Measurement-Based Non-Invasive Method for In Ovo Chicken Egg Sexing |
title_sort | bioimpedance-measurement-based non-invasive method for in ovo chicken egg sexing |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10135836/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37185515 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13040440 |
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