Each year, nearly 45 million young chickens that are male killed in Germany. Their eggs are unsuitable when it comes to market. New procedures for sex recognition should make certain that they’re not also bred. David Tedevosian/ Shutterstock
The managing director of the egg breeding company Seleggt Gmbh, spoke about Germany’s recent decision to allow the mass killings of young male chickens and how his company’s Seleggt process could be used as a bridging technology until more commercially viable methods are found in an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Dr Ludger Breloh.
Dr Ludger Breloh, an agricultural economist, is the handling director of Seleggt GmbH, an associate associated with the Rewe Group. Seleggt GmbH, in cooperation utilizing the University of Leipzig, is rolling out the very first method that is operational very very early sex recognition in hen eggs.
The sex of a young chicken can be determined in the egg with the Seleggt method. How exactly does this work?
Our technique is better called an hormonal, meaning a hormone-based technique. We know already that gender-specific hormones, such as for instance oestrone sulphate, are generally contained in the non-incubated egg and are also just created within the feminine egg.
For this, one should wait about nine times before the hormones are available in the egg in sufficient volume. Then we draw out a little fall of fluid through the egg, which we mix by having a marker that is biochemical.
This then suggests, having a color modification, whether or not the sulphate that is oestrone current. Female eggs are then gone back to your incubator and hatched, while male eggs are prepared into animal feed.
Thus far, nonetheless, gender determination is not considered ready for serial manufacturing, and just a supermarkets that are few these eggs. Exactly why is that?<