Rumor? regarding vent sexing at MMH

[Sunny Side Up]

I got into a conversation with another chicken-keeper while at our local feed store today. She said she's been looking everywhere for baby chicks to buy & couldn't find any. Someone else told her about a place in Miami and she seemed eager to go, even though it would be a 4-hour round-trip. I asked her why she didn't just order from a hatchery, which would mail them to her local PO and sex them for her too.

Her reply was that these local breeders could also sex the chicks, and that hatcheries like MMH were hiring mere teenagers to do the vent sexing for them.

??!!?!?!?

I thought it was a highly-paid profession requiring a lot of training, skill & experience. She said she'd seen pictures on their website showing these young people at work at MMH. I cannot find such photos.

I'm curious to know if what this woman said is really true. And if so, where I can sign up my teenage son to get a job at a hatchery.

 

[pips&peeps]

If it were that easy, I'd being doing my own...........

RUMOR!!!!

 

[redhen]

ya never know....

 

[canada-goose]

She's mixed up. The teenagers box up the chicks and transport them to the sexing crew!

 

[redhen]

Quote:
that makes more sense...

 

[houndit]

pips&peeps :

If it were that easy, I'd being doing my own...........

RUMOR!!!!

Yes! I really wish I knew how!!!!​

 

[MudPie]

I don't think it is that difficult. The guy on Dirty Jobs was sexing chicks on one of his shows. It seemed like a task that is easily to trainable to anyone. Not that I know how...

 

[Wifezilla]

The video I saw of MM had older gentlemen doing it and they had been at it for years. Strangely, they were all Asian.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Asians seem to the have the knack for it... since it was developed by people in Asia.... I guess it makes sense to see more of this ethnic background sexing chickens. However I do know it is a skilled to learn. You just can't go in and kinda know what you were doing. There would be a lot of mad people if they received males instead of females!

I would say a rumor.... it's more common for the packers to be teenagers as it's an easy job and requires minimal knowledge.... you just need to be able to read and count!

 

[kyeschicks]