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 ...

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 ...

A recent, first-of-its-kind survey of more than 1,000 US egg consumers showed a high level of interest in a new technology called “in-ovo sexing” that can determine the sex of chicken embryos before ...

In-ovo sexing technology allows for the sex of a chicken egg to be determined while it’s still developing. It allows egg producers to only hatch females, and removes the immediate culling of male ...