Chick Sexing, Wire Rope and AI

Chick sexing is a core concept for an experienced engineer. Fortunately, maritime engineers do not have to perform chick sexing, but the concept is extremely important and ties into engineering intuition and experience.

We all know engineers and mechanics who have an amazing ability to diagnose certain problems that completely elude solution by the rest of the community.

It is often called intuition, but there is actually no such thing as intuition; it is actually related to learning and experience. Learning and experience, especially in a feedback loop can result in incredible human powers.

Which bring me back to chick sexing. Chicken breeding is a weird world. Chicken breeders have very little use for roosters. Roosters are needed for inseminating female chickens but for the rest are useless; they fight and they do not lay eggs.

Therefore, chicken breeders want to get rid of male chicks as soon as possible. However, newborn male and female chicks are virtually indistinguishable from each other and in the old days a chicken breeder had to wait until the chicks matured to get rid of the males. Naturally it would save a lot of money if only the sex of the chicks could be