Every year, millions of male chicks of the egg-laying breeds are killed because they do not lay eggs and it is uneconomical to fatten them.

Due to reasons of product quality and cost effectiveness, egg-laying genotypes are unsuitable for producing poultry meat, which is why the male chicks of these egg-laying breeds have so far not been reared in the majority of cases. In ovo sexing is regarded as an alternative, with hormone analysis on the 9th day of incubation currently being the most extensively developed and commercially useable method.

SELEGGT Circulus system

The SELEGGT Circulus system is a significant leap forwards compared to the predecessor SELEGGT Acus system. It operates fully automatically, and the allantoic fluid is now sampled contactlessly. Cleaning the sampling needles is therefore forgone and the sampling time has been reduced to 1 second per hatching egg. In three-shift operation with 20 hours of operation per day, one SELEGGT Circulus sampling unit therefore has a weekly capacity of 360,000 hatching eggs, corresponding to 150,000 to 180,000 laying chicks, a significant increase in performance in comparison with the predecessor system.

Contactless sampling and the vastly increased hourly capacity have established the prerequisites for universally replacing the previous culling of male chicks in hatcheries with in ovo sexing.

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