Would you be a chick breeder for 55 euros a year? (VIDEO)

    A salary of over 55 thousand euros a year to do a seemingly rather simple job. They are the 'Chicken sexers', that is the person who spends his days selecting males and females from tens of thousands of fluffy chicks in laying hen farms. But despite the seemingly attractive offer, Britain's poultry sector is struggling to find candidates. It's a job nobody wants to do.



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    A salary of over 55 thousand euros a year to do a seemingly rather simple job. This is the ‘Chicken sexers’, or the one who spends the days a select males and females from tens of thousands of fluffy chicks in laying hen farms. But despite the seemingly attractive offer, Britain's poultry sector is struggling to find candidates. It's a job nobody wants to do.

    The problem would lie in the nature of the job: 'sexers' spend 12 hours a day 'looking at the back of a chick'. And every new recruit has to spend three years of coaching before learning how to do it. Per Andrew Large, executive director of the British Poultry Council, in 2013, the sector was able to recruit a single worker and requested that the particular specialization be added to the government's official list of jobs with shortages.

    Every prospective recruiter receives years of training on how to spot minute differences in size and shape of genitals of a chick to determine whether it will be a rooster or a hen. It should then be able to select between 800 and 1.200 chicks hatched just one day each hour - one chick every 3-5 seconds - with an accuracy of 97 to 98 percent.

    Would you be a chick breeder for 55 euros a year? (VIDEO)

    Would you be a chick breeder for 55 euros a year? (VIDEO)

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    Although the control technique can be taught relatively quickly, the ability to maintain high standards over such long periods is only learned over time, such as explains Andrew Large al Times.

    But have you wondered why chicks are selected? The question is very simple. Laying hens are reared to lay eggs (a selection of the most productive specimens takes place). Male chicks, of course, they are not useful for this purpose and are not even useful for raising chickens intended for meat production.



    That's why, as Janice Neitzel of Sustainable Solutions Group says, now male chicks have become 'disposable'.

    “The chicks are thrown into high-speed machinery and, if all goes as planned, killed instantly. But that's not enough. Consumers are often unaware of this practice. Thanks to social networks, however, it's only a matter of time ".


    I male chicks, separated from the females and stacked by the thousands in containers, are thrown into the meat grinder alive, as he revealed the last investigation shot undercover by activists at Mercy for Animals, showing the hidden side of egg production at Maple Leaf, Ontario, Canada.


    Couldn't this actually be influencing the decline in people willing to be a chick breeder?

    Roberta Ragni

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