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DRESDEN, Germany, Nov. 25, 2009 – A novel approach to classifying the gender of 6-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner and his team from the Dresden University of Technology. Their use of infrared spectroscopy to determine the gender of young birds has been shown to be a fast and accurate method with the potential to allow the breeding industry to identify and select female eggs only. Numerous bird species – and nestlings and immature birds in particular – lack external sexual characteristics. Knowledge of a bird’s gender is...Read full article

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    Published: November 2009
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    infrared spectroscopy
    The measurement of the ability of matter to absorb, transmit or reflect infrared radiation and the relating of the resultant data to chemical structure.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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