Israeli start-up Soos tackles culling of male chicks

06-10-2020 | | |
Soos has developed an acoustic cell to measure the sound inside of the incubator. Their technology transforms the embryo through sound vibration and through changing the environmental conditions in the incubator. Photo: Jordan Kastrinsky, Soos.
Soos has developed an acoustic cell to measure the sound inside of the incubator. Their technology transforms the embryo through sound vibration and through changing the environmental conditions in the incubator. Photo: Jordan Kastrinsky, Soos.
Israeli start-up Soos developed a technique to alter the sex of embryos from male to female in the hatchery. Every year, the global egg industry produces 15 billion chicks. Half of them are female and grow up to be functional layers, but the other 7.5 billion are males and are culled, leading not only to major ethical and animal welfare concerns, but also to lost revenue and missed potential. As increasingly more countries are banning the culling of male chicks and the worldwide egg production


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