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Wait, I thought this was already a solved problem? We've been able to determine the sex of chicken eggs from the outside using lasers for quite a few years now. [0]

[0]: https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-spectroscopy-determines-sex...

Too slow, the article says 95% accuracy with about one a minute.

Graduates of the Zen Nippon Chick Sexing School is about 99.7% accurate @ every 3-4 seconds. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jobs-chickens-idUSTRE67U0...

License and registration, "Chicken sexers"!

Unfortunately lasers aren't cheaper than tossing living male chicks into grinders.

Just like better batteries and non-lithium batteries, this seems to be an issue that has been solved numerous times in the last decade without broad application of the solution.

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