09-02-2025, 08:27 AM
(09-01-2025, 11:52 PM)Farmqueen Wrote: Some hatcheries in Asia combine feather sexing with AI cameras now. They can do thousands per hour with high accuracy. Here is what I got:
"Xiashu Technology (Asia) offers AI-powered feather sexing machines that determine chick gender with 99% accuracy, processing up to 3,000 chicks per hour .
These systems are easy to operate and effective across broilers, layers, and even turkeys, demonstrating practical reliability in commercial hatchery settings .
TARGAN’s WingScan system is another major innovation using AI-based imaging to identify chick sex from feathers.
Accuracy: Over 97–98%, depending on configuration .
Speed: Processes 100,000 to 160,000 chicks per hour .
Numerous hatcheries have adopted it globally, including a Canadian hatchery using WingScan to replace labor-intensive manual sorting .
A Spanish facility now uses WingScan to sex up to 1.25 million chicks per week .
Other AI systems in Europe and Southeast Asia also employ high-speed AI feather imaging to sex chicks at high accuracy (~98%) and up to tens of thousands per hour."
The world is really advancing