Eggs and poultry provide important sources of protein globally, driving a major industry with large economic impacts. Challenges to hatchery operations include embryo mortality, fertility, sex determination and eggshell characteristics. Those features have a substantial impact on production, but they are difficult and time-consuming to estimate.
Researchers determine chick sex, mortality in chicken eggs before hatching
Md. Wadud Ahmed, doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, collects hyperspectral images of eggs.
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