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@JEMurl
6 күн бұрын
Growing up in a poor country in Central America, we used to stick our finger in a chickens cloaca to feel if a chicken was forming eggs in its body. They felt like little balls of flesh. This way you’d know if eggs were on the way
@OffGridInvestor
3 күн бұрын
I knew someone who had this EXACT job. It was NEITHER lucrative NOR well paying. There's A LOT of chicken industry around me. Guys I grew up with are managers for farms of thousands of chickens.
@brokeandtired
Күн бұрын
Well chicken nuggets are basically chicks that failed the sexing tests.
@TerenceClark
6 күн бұрын
I worked in a tool and die shop that made cutting taps for a summer in high school. I was general shop help, and QA was a big part of the job. By a few weeks in I could visually tell when there were .001 inch aberrations in the cutting threads based on subtle macroscopic properties I was trained to look for. We confirmed with precision tools under magnification, but the QA people were the first line of defense when it came to possibly identifying worn tool heads or bad machine calibration. It's downright bizarre what humans can become good at with practice.
@stancil83
5 күн бұрын
Being a machinist/gunsmith most of my life I can spot 1/1000" from across the room. anything you can measure with calipers is generally easy to eyeball. I'm not saying I can eyeball anything with the precision of a pair of calipers but things don't start to get difficulty to see until you pull out the mics. rometer. 🎙🎤🔬
@michelleduncombe9675
6 күн бұрын
I just wish the industry was run by local farmers, not corporations. I visited a beef farm for Farm Day, which was a day where city families were matched with country families and you could experience a day on a farm. I told the farmer that we would buy a whole cow from him and use a large freezer to store it, because I want to buy fresh from the farm. He said unfortunately he can’t do that because all the livestock has to go to an abattoir run by a corporation. Always the same story - farmers get ripped off, corporations make shittonnes. I live in Australia. It’s hard to source local produce that it is not under the control of greedy corporations but it can be done (at a price, which I am willing to pay).
@ItsBoyRed
5 күн бұрын
"farmers get ripped off" Boo hoo They are animal abusers. If you were against animal abuse you would be vegan.
@daviddavidson2357
5 күн бұрын
Bet it's government regulations that force it to be that way.
@Leftatalbuquerque
5 күн бұрын
In Canada, if you own the cow, you can kill and process for your own immediate family use at your own facility - be it the garage, back shed or thrash floor in the barn.
@mushyroom9569
4 күн бұрын
@@daviddavidson2357That’s why government regulation exists: it benefits corporations.
@daviddavidson2357
4 күн бұрын
@@mushyroom9569 Precisely. The exact term is crony capitalism. Which is very different to standard capitalism. The former involves using governments to regulate competition out of a market, the latter involves market competition without (or with very minimal) government regulation.
@megansfo
6 күн бұрын
Keeping chickens in the city was a big fad about 15 years ago. In Seattle, the local laws allowed more hens to those with larger yards, and those with huge yards could even Keep other farm animals. I suspect that law dated back many years. I had a lot of space, and ordered by mail 25 sexed day old chicks. They did well, but one did indeed turn out to be a rooster. He actually bonded with me, so it was sad when I had to give him away. Roosters werent allowed. I later learned that others in my area went to great lengths to hide their rooster pets.
@magnemoe1
6 күн бұрын
Still popular in more rural suburbs. Hens walking around looks cute and you get eggs. And if the kids want an cat or dog have them do the hens for a year first. Don't think its rules against roosters here in Norway but noise rules apply I assume,. Or they simply disappear.
@jarrodm9010
6 күн бұрын
I bought 6 allegedly sexed chicks and wound up with a rooster in the city. I put something called a No Crow Collar on him. He could still crow but not nearly as loud, and he did it significantly less frequently. I just made sure to hook my immediate neighbors up with eggs and stuff from my garden. I kept my rooster in my garage until like 8-9am so he wouldn't wake anyone up at 5 or 6 in the morning. They all thought it was funny because it wasn't a nice area. Some said their kids need to wake up earlier and other said they'd rather hear crowing than barking dogs or gunshots🤷♂️ I keep quail now instead because even the males are really quiet, and they don't need nearly as much space to be happy
@revemb4653
6 күн бұрын
why are roosters banned? lmao that makes no sense
@10509054
6 күн бұрын
@@revemb4653they crow in the morning.
@megansfo
6 күн бұрын
Roosters were banned because of the noise they make.
@watsonwrote
6 күн бұрын
8:00 This phenomenon also reminds me of professional Geoguessers. They can glance an image from Google maps for a fraction of a second, even scrambled, and say the name of the country instantly. They'll say things like, "this feels like Mongolian grass" and "these trees seem Italian" and they are correct, but can't usually articulate why they know this immediately. They've just been exposed to these images so often, the patterns have been impressed on them like how we train AI models.
@Falcon-eh8tq
6 күн бұрын
I worked in a Maple Leaf Food Chicken hatchery in Ontario. Moved 780,000 birds before noon. Sometimes 1.1m. EACH DAY. It's a minimum wage job here, and was my first job, very very dirty job and you see some things you would not want to. Like birds being eviscerated accidentally ect. And someone new to it would be lucky to hit 800/hr even with wing sexing. There was one person who would get over 1000/hr reliably, she would ambidextrously use both hands to sex a bird in each hand only picking it up by the wing where inexperienced people would start with picking up the bird, spread the wing ect..
@michaelpipkin9942
6 күн бұрын
In a doomsday situation, I would preserve real maple syrup in my food cache. The Earth is scorched, but my pancakes are wonderful.
@dallasgauthier3543
6 күн бұрын
Maple leaf is a meat company and has nothing to do with syrup 😂@@michaelpipkin9942
@bensoncheung2801
3 күн бұрын
42 👍?
@margotrosendorn6371
6 күн бұрын
"Ok when's he gonna bring up chick maceration...oh, there it is..."
@y-not
6 күн бұрын
When I was a kid my parents owned a pet shop and used to sell bags of 50 frozen dead day old chicks for Birds of prey etc. (I believe they are electrocuted on a wire grid.) Apparently me making some stand up in a diorama for Easter 🐥🐤🐣 was not a suitable thing to do in a pet shop frequented by animal lovers 😬 🤷♂
@Blinkerd00d
6 күн бұрын
That's so dark......I lol'd way too hard
@sophiegray4987
6 күн бұрын
I think that's actually really funny.
@margotrosendorn6371
6 күн бұрын
Oh yes, we go through a lot of those at the wildlife center where I work. I think these days carbon monoxide chambers are used since it's a painless process.
@deavman
5 күн бұрын
Nope. KZitem won't allow me to be specific. Just know that they were simply placed into the bag, you can figure out the rest...
@itme999
5 күн бұрын
I'm a lifelong vegetarian and found this darkly hilarious 😂
@johnjamieson7688
6 күн бұрын
Dad had a hatchery in Englewood Colorado (south side of Denver). This was maybe 1947 to 1968. It was called Jamieson and son's hatchery. Did hatch and deliver Hyline chickens. As a child, I remember seeing Japanese Chicken Sexers working there, these were about the only Japanese people I remember seeing in those days. As I remember it Dad purchased houses for them and they were well paid. They typically worked in a darkened room with a bare light bulb over their table. To reduce eye strain they wore tennis visors with a green transparent visor. Looked like a couple of guys playing poker or something. They were extremely fast and good. Dad said they were about 98% accurate as his customers would typically get 2 roosters per box of 100. They would pack a box of 100 with 104 chicks, to allow for the 2 roosters and 2 deaths. Everything here seems quite accurate to me. Roosters were used as hog feed.
@JaydragonM
3 күн бұрын
That's very interesting. I really like the 104 in a box of 100. It's the like "hatchery hundred" just like a "baker's dozen!" Thanks for giving a bit of personal insight!
@19redmiata94
3 күн бұрын
When I was a tank crewman, we were trained to identify different military vehicles, both friendly and not, with only a quick glimps of the vehicle. If you mis-identify a friendly vehicle you fail the test.
@donaldwert7137
6 күн бұрын
I need to go wash my mind out with soap, now.
@sethshade3121
6 күн бұрын
I need mind bleach.
@BobChancer
4 күн бұрын
Cat vids are good but for really deep cleaning I suggest otters! 😂
@pioneercynthia1
6 күн бұрын
I can't believe I'm watching an episode that I actually know something about! Also it's not puh-lets, it's pull-ets. 😂
@evapunk522
5 күн бұрын
He's British, give him a break 🤣🤣
@gurrrn1102
3 күн бұрын
He didn’t make an h sound when he said pullets 🙄
@voltronsbluelion
6 күн бұрын
Swine Reproduction Specialist. Real Job. Friend's BF had it for a while. Farmers actually need the service but it is EXACTLY what it sounds like.
@irenafarm
6 күн бұрын
Lord bless ya.
@SirEnwardEffsler
6 күн бұрын
This not what i thought it was
@MrSirlulzalot
6 күн бұрын
Bro, don't make us worry about you. ❤
@richardhart9204
6 күн бұрын
… then seek help.
@jaclynjax8308
6 күн бұрын
You aren't alone. I immediately thought, "So, do they text with their beaks? 🤔 Let's find out.", which makes zero sense, haha. Luckily I do still like this video and I should've realized it since just 2 days ago I randomly Googled this topic but with wild rabbits and the same thing applies. No, I don't even have any rabbits, haha. 🤭 (FYI: Manatees also taste like pork apparently.) I will never fully admit to being a bit let down over my mistake, lol. The thought of chickens sexting eachother is hilarious! Our Brainrot is strong for most of us, haha.
@chadp363
6 күн бұрын
You don't happen to drive a book bus and live near south park Colorado do you?
@justinnotarianni2427
6 күн бұрын
@@jaclynjax8308 that is not what he meant 😂 your poor blessed soul
@Bob-cx4ze
6 күн бұрын
Yeah, if you buy chickens, you know. "What happens to all the boys?" 🦗🦗🦗
@magnemoe1
6 күн бұрын
Now if your buying beef is from an cow. Same with bull leather, calf leather might be from an bull.
@irenafarm
6 күн бұрын
This is why I don’t buy “chicken” dog food. 😶
@JamesSmith-op7yc
6 күн бұрын
They're sold as cockerels, and raised for meat. We eat them. Thanks for sharing.
@ApathyBM
6 күн бұрын
And if you eat cheese
@Pisti846
6 күн бұрын
Macerated.
@jpablo700
5 күн бұрын
Sweet! It works. Jumped over here from your community post response to show some support. Keep up the fantastic work!
@TodayIFoundOut
5 күн бұрын
Thanks! :-)
@LokiBJH
5 күн бұрын
I got to use this video in one of my classes to help out on an assignment. I knew a little bit about chick sexing, but not the ties to Japan and WWII. Thank you for the awesome info!
@no_nameyouknow
6 күн бұрын
It's like how you can recognize a song you are familiar with from a split second of sound. We make a rapid determination based on very subtle information but even so when you know it's not even a guess, it's a certainty. It seems so natural and easy, but if you break it down you are recognizing something quite complex from a very tiny but dense set of information. Similar to this 'sexing' process. Just a lot more mundane because we all have songs that we can recognize this way.
@jeremymcclary3901
6 күн бұрын
6:18...I would normally declare "shannagins" upon such a statement, but being a flint knapper of almost 40 years experience, I will willingly testify before royal barristers, this is a REAL phenomenon!!! (i.e. skill and experience combine in such a subtle and graceful way that to outsiders, and the artisan themselves, it appears to be an almost "magical" alchemy....)
@dianapennepacker6854
6 күн бұрын
I was thinking when I played football. I could instantly recognize the ball, or the other team even when the colors were similar in fractions of a second Hell even when just playing with friends all with different street clothes I could do it. I assumed I was picking up their body language more than identifying their outfits/uniform. All while finding the ball on a field of 22 players. Or I could tell if someone was right behind me from sound, or looks from other players even. You learn to read the flow of the game without actually thinking. I think humans are great at subconsciously taking in quick information from all the sources available to us. Especially after years of practice. Also reminds me water diviners or water witches. Using two metal wands or sticks doesn't actually seem to increase the chances of them detecting close ground water. Yet experience definitely did matter. Those with like a decade of experience were also less likely to walk over known water sources since the scientists already mapped where the ground water was. The studies suggested they were using other clues subconsciously.
@jeremymcclary3901
6 күн бұрын
@dianapennepacker6854 a gift granted to the young...(I , having lived through the same)...would truly morn for you, If I were to exist long enough to to see when "reality bites"...
@ALA9E
3 күн бұрын
They had that “look at the picture and guess the word” learning crap at my childs school. It failed for him, he couldn’t read until he got traditional phonetic help. They eventually went back to phonetics in the tuition but not until there was a couple generations of illiterate kids, unfortunately two of mine😣
@kathrineici9811
3 күн бұрын
They’re still trying to remove phonics in our schools The kids are not doing well
@Shauma_llama
6 күн бұрын
Come on Simon, not going to show baby chicks going into the meat grinder alive? Did you notice the guy in the old film clip kicking a chicken? My grandparents raised chickens. It wasn't like you saw in the video where the poor things are crowded in a barn and never get out. One moment of the video showed a hen sitting there with he head nearly pressed up against a wall, that's depression. Their chickens were raised in a hen house where they had plenty of room to move about. During they day she opened the door and they'd get to run around in the chicken yard. Once grandma caught a big snake and tossed it into the chicken yard. Remember the tiny raptors from Jurassic Park swarming someone and tearing them apart? Thats what happened to this snake. 😮 I felt bad for the snake. When my grandma watched shows on t.v., later in life, showing factory poultry farming, and the miserable conditions they endured in their short pathetic lives she was infuriated, and wondered why it wasn't illegal.
@yakirfrankoveig8094
6 күн бұрын
The answer is no one cares if a chicken suffers its not like they would stop eating eggs
@deavman
5 күн бұрын
I totally agree, people who actually take care of farm animals also see as necessary not to harm them while they are alive. I do not consume animals but I respect much more old fashion farmers and hunters who eat only from their catch.
@auroraasleep
3 күн бұрын
One of the main reasons I started raising my own chickens (and other poultry) is so I can give them a good life. I'll still eat them, but I know they had sunshine, grass, dust baths, friends, treats, and bugs. Factory meat tastes flat. Needs more grass & sunshine & bugs.
@davinasquirrel7672
3 күн бұрын
@@yakirfrankoveig8094 I have my own little flock for eggs (eggs only, never for meat). They are spoiled and well cared for. Their eggs are brilliant, and I would never eat supermarket mass-produced eggs ever again.
@davinasquirrel7672
3 күн бұрын
Shauma, I detest modern mass farming methods, for any kind of produce. So I grow some of my own food, have my own little flock of chickens. And the difference in taste is huge.
@duncanbryson1167
6 күн бұрын
I lack binocular vision which I didn't know about until my 30s. I knew I'd a problem because I've never had good judgement: knocking things over and poor at accuracy sports. I have trouble with speed reading and I subvocalise. Using an eye patch helps. Not everyone can see words and they go straight to understanding without mentally "speaking" them.
@MrIansmitchell
4 күн бұрын
Prism glasses worked for my BVD, don’t they for you?
@duncanbryson1167
4 күн бұрын
@@MrIansmitchell I have a prismatic correction in my prescription for spectacles but that doesn't eliminate my lack of judgement. I also wear contact lenses so no prismatic correction with them. I'm not sure but I don't think it's an optical problem but the optic nerves etc not working in conjunction, I can switch from one eye to the other making one dominant then the other.
@BenjaminSpencer-m1k
3 күн бұрын
Worked as a meat cutter and had a teacher that started working in a meat market at age 8 he was now in his late 70s. He was abke to look at cows bone tell if it was male or female and if it was a female not only if it had claved but how many it had. Their bones change thru diffrent stages of life, some times its subtle but sometimes drastic these changes.
@danielvest9602
3 күн бұрын
My uncle tried starting a chicken farm - he got the chicks unsexed to save money. Ended up with 3 chickens and 47 roosters.
@treycopeland1368
2 күн бұрын
He ended up with 50 chickens
@irenafarm
6 күн бұрын
The egg shape thing actually somewhat works if you know your own hens (ie what their eggs look like and which eggs hatch into what sex). This would be impossible if you didn’t raise your own chicks from your own hens. I’ve tried sexing much older chicks, and also tried caponing a few times. I’m pretty convinced identifying the correct bits is actual sorcery.
@SuperTheTheresa
5 күн бұрын
egg shape thing does not work. the sex of the embryo is determined at ovulation and fertilization, egg shell is just a package.
@anna9072
3 күн бұрын
@@SuperTheTheresaI experimented with this technique on my own hens. Out of 13 hatched chicks I only had one rooster. That was only one trial, but it showed enough promise that I wouldn’t completely discount the technique. However, since I generally prefer to let my hens go broody and raise their own chicks, I haven’t experimented further.
@SuperTheTheresa
2 күн бұрын
@@anna9072 i work for a company that has around 250 thousands of breeder hens and the whole point is to sell one day old pullets. if there was any way of setting only female eggs, we would be doing it. there is not.
@Silentgrace11
6 күн бұрын
I feel like this is the first time I’ve found a Simon Whistler topic a little mundane, but I suppose that makes sense coming from the rural US where raising chickens is frankly a normalized part of the status quo for a good number of us. That being said, even modern sexing methods are fairly inaccurate - I loved my years in the yardstock barns at the county fair where some of the younger participants were surprised to find an egg suddenly show up in one of their cages (the most common broiler varieties are genetically bred to be essentially infertile, but mistakes still happen haha). Likewise, for non broilers even the most intricate testing still has a 10 to 20% margin for error, the latter being especially present for larger scale pullet sellers that distribute to your typical corporate feed and equipment stores. Of the 8 layers my mom picked up last year, only six were actually hens lol.
@irenafarm
6 күн бұрын
I’m surprised that someone raising roos for show would not recognize a hen at maturity. 🤔 The opposite oopsie is definitely very common. I had one chick that was badly injured before fully feathered, from a clutch that was supposed to be all pullets from a VERY expensive breed (at the time - Partridge Standard Braham). I nursed that darn chick for months then, after a very slow maturation, “she” turned out to be a roo. 😒 I only realized this when “she” started crowing. Brahams don’t get long tail feathers and their saddle feathers are super understated too. So that was kind of a perfect storm situation.
@Daniel-ou4fb
6 күн бұрын
It's getting harder than ever to tell whether a chick is male or female.
@christopherleubner6633
Күн бұрын
Well played 😂
@jacara1981
6 күн бұрын
Programmers have a similar skill. If you do a lot of programming you can glance at a program and kinda just understand what it does or where the errors are. I've done the same in Electronics troubleshooting. I can look at a circuit and just kinda know where the problem is at a glance.
@rossallan3585
6 күн бұрын
Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was odd jobs. It was not this. IT WAS NOT THIS.
@mpersad
6 күн бұрын
Absolutely fascinating! A topic I had never even thought about, but when you consider the size of the poultry industry it really is an incredible skill. Terrific video.
@ringingsteel8729
6 күн бұрын
As a father of a child with hyperlexia from high functioning/savant autism. The whole word concept of teaching reading and language is far more effective, and most likely how he learned to read fluently at 2.
@chesh1rek1tten
22 сағат бұрын
Anecdotal evidence from a non neurotypical child might not be the best basis for that assessment.
@erikjohnson9223
2 күн бұрын
Old hens (& old birds period) are usually made into stew or other slow cooked foods (coq au vin for the fancier foods). This turns tough connective tissue (the problem with old animals) into gelatin and flavor, leaving the meat reasonably tender. A "McNugget" made from pulverized meat is probably palatable from an old bird, but a fried chunk of meat from an old bird would be tough and therefore unpleasant.
@niravdarmesh5278
6 күн бұрын
I gave a lecture, recently, gave a lecture on Translation versus Interpretation. This is a prime example of such a thing. It simply boils down to this: Knowledge versus Understanding.
@penultimateh766
6 күн бұрын
Yeah, they say the more you know about the process, the less you want to eat meat.
@Nylak-Otter
6 күн бұрын
Yeah, I worked in animal agriculture for a couple decades. I'm mostly vegan now and am actively employed in animal welfare as a behaviorist. I do still consult in agriculture, but it's primarily to improve the living and handling conditions of the animals that will always be involved.
@ItsBoyRed
5 күн бұрын
Then stop? Eating a plant-based diet is cheaper, and healthier. There is nothing essential in meat you cannot source from plants. If you eat meat, you do so for pleasure, aka Taste, and that is subjective, plants can be tasty as hell. Meaning you support animal abuse for pleasure, not necessity.
@Elora445
5 күн бұрын
@@ItsBoyRed It is indeed possible, but honestly, just looking it up, it seems much harder to reach the proper protein level with a vegan diet than any other diet. Animal based food contains much higher levels and hence you don't have to eat as much of it. But honestly, way too many eat way too much animal based products than they need.
@ItsBoyRed
5 күн бұрын
@@Elora445 There are plenty of resources available along with tools to help you reach your goal to stop contributing to animal abuse and live a healthier, longer life that may also be cheaper. I get "big" change is hard, but its only hard in the start be course its new, once you get going its not an issue to find food anywhere.
@Elora445
5 күн бұрын
@@ItsBoyRed I see that you ignored what I was saying and instead just wanted to shame people who eats meat. Okay then. Bye!
@danielcurtis1434
5 күн бұрын
The thing is chickens used to be cheap to feed. They would hang around eating bugs and scraps too small for other animals. Perfect for a few dozen birds just build a house for em. However start feeding them corn and housing thousands the economics change and you don’t have enough bugs or anything. Chicken was once cheap then expensive than cheap again within less than a century. Chicken is definitely the most politically charged source of meat.
@Casecc
2 күн бұрын
I am an old farmer, 78 who has been able to tell which was which for around 50yrs. Pick a chick up, make a V out of your index and middle fingers. Put the chickens head above the V, the body below. If the chicks flop around, (I think, if I remember rightly, as its been years since I did it )will be a rooster, and if it just lays between your fingers without movement is a pullet
@ClutchMyPrimus1
6 күн бұрын
I knew once I tapped on this video, my search algorithm was gonna be screwed!
@ImARealHumanPerson
6 күн бұрын
The regular t shirt makes this seem like an early channel video 😅
@bapiwedoni5843
6 күн бұрын
love the talk on agricultural/food industry it's a nice peak behind the curtain
@pamo7261
6 күн бұрын
That reminded me of my old job in hatchery 😂
@Falcon-eh8tq
6 күн бұрын
me too I worked the machine that separated the eggs from the birds, 800k birds a day.. Screw that I'll never go back to a job that dirty.
@shinnam
22 сағат бұрын
Simon: do a video on vertical intergration of livestock production. Most people at least somewhat believe those ads with the happy farmers and animals running around the farm.
@retro989
3 күн бұрын
Hello. Chicken farmer here. I've read that sexing chicks has a higher chance of prolapse. Also what is the spliced image at 6:44
@davinasquirrel7672
3 күн бұрын
Yes, quite strange.
@Nil-tz6gy
Күн бұрын
The ring on a string trick works fairly well.
@24pickles24
Күн бұрын
People around here do 'rooster runs' where they collect everybody's unwanted roosters to kill... we rescued roosters for awhile once we found out and realised backyard eggs arent worth it, roosters are much less aggressive with no hens around The egg industry is extremely cruel, it destroys the hens body so they're only useful for 1 or 2 years before being killed or sold cheap for backyard eggs, even if rescued they don't live very long, it's the same with broiler meat chickens, they grow so fast that their bodies can't take it, they're killed while they're still technically chicks at around 2 months old and if rescued they still don't live long, humans cruelty towards animals is insane, we don't need to do this
@chris2790
2 күн бұрын
This dude is a YT video producing machine.
@juliav.mcclelland2415
6 күн бұрын
How did they determine which worker incorrectly identified a bird? Did they just make everyone pay if 1 coworker made a mistake?
@johnmcauliffe8824
6 күн бұрын
I think they'd occasionally test a worker on their accuracy
@SangoProductions213
3 күн бұрын
Quality control. You sample production lines. If you're finding consistent problems later on in the lines, you can move up each branch that feeds into that line and sample those branches. The branch(es) with errors are then sampled further to trace the source. If you trace back to a point where there are fewer errors (accounting for sampling error), then you would be going too far, and instead the error is being added at *this* branch. You can then sample the individual workers' output. The reason why this works is simple: errors happen. But some people err more than others. By back tracing to the highest concentration of errors, you can eventually figure out who is causing them. This is partially why version control of software is so important. And it's the same method that sewage companies use to track down the guy who keeps flushing paper towels (and not toilet paper) down the drain.
@SangoProductions213
3 күн бұрын
For clarity, a branch is imagined as a fractal state, up to the point where there is no further sources feeding into the branch. In this case, that final branch without further input branches (called a leaf in programming), would be called an employee. In the sewage business, it is a drain (actually, it's called a house, because they don't actually care about which drain, they care about stopping the abusers of their drainage, but you get the point).
@matthewday7565
6 күн бұрын
I had a bizarre visual trick, electronic resistors have a colour code, and I could quickly stir through a pile of mixed ones while thinking of the colour I wanted (I could only lock two colours, for the first two digits), but could then stop and pick one that matched while stirring them and not really looking at each one
@tonyritter4919
3 күн бұрын
Work is addictive, even though change in social dynamics , labor structure , injury ect.; may drive someone away from their work, specialization is habit forming on the mechanism of behavioral addiction. Long before I studied sociology and human development, I worked with poultry across several settings. Humane, small scale poultry farms have operated at a loss, while preserving dual purpose lines. In the 3 days I spent power washing industrial hatching trays, The sexer was hanging the chicks by one leg, a mode of behavior sexing with questionable accuracy. The idea is that a pullet will hang submissively and a cockerel would curl up on your hand as if to fight in the style of a rooster. In that setting, we were hatching replacement layers and "males were disposed of because they had no significant commercial value". I saw it as necessary but heart breaking at the time but also the exponential effect of hatching 30k eggs a week. The next biggest farm I ever worked for raise that number in a year of mixed and diverse birds. They were raised in smaller groups, with more room, and managed with a lot more care. There are concepts of biosecurity that have to be addressed in industrial poultry that don't have a need to exist in smaller flocks because the vulnerability is much lower with smaller numbers and space and if something does get in the overall loss is lower because as immunity and some loss build hosts run out and a contagion will become obsolete. In confinement farming, 1 germ will wipe out an entire barn before a care taker knows it's made it's way in. These concepts now make me look at humanity, politics, and culture. (especially after covid) The plagues started with settlements and war was often a way of pitting young males against each other as a way of inter-political gaming(in history cockfighting was a prevalent past time) . Politics and commercial agriculture are very much the same in their operations. Metros seem more and more like factory farms, wars like an outlet for young males, rural farms equally vulnerable but mostly content.
@ScPolaroids
6 күн бұрын
Man I had lotion out when I read chicken sexing bit ended up swapping lotion for a notebook because damn this is interesting
@24pickles24
Күн бұрын
People that don't think eating eggs is cruel are forgetting that half of the chickens are roosters and killed shortly after hatching, most people don't even realise that, just like they don't realise cows don't just automatically make milk
@rayraywow29
4 күн бұрын
My mother did this when I was a kid at our local hatchery. Her father was the facility manager. I loved going to visit her at work there.
@cw7147
6 күн бұрын
You guys missed your chance to say "this might BEAK your heart" 😂 I'm commenting before watching so i apologize if this ends up being a sad story
@katherinecollins4685
11 сағат бұрын
Fantastic video
@plunder1956
6 күн бұрын
That must have been one of the toughest scripts to read correctly You've had so far. I'm impressed.
@user-sy5yw2dj3k
5 күн бұрын
Probably the best podcast ever written.
@KentoLeoDragon
6 күн бұрын
They're basically Bene Gesserits.
@thebenc1537
6 күн бұрын
If the tail feathers point up its a girl. If they point down its a boy. There, mystery solved.
@jc6800
6 күн бұрын
If it's name us Stuart it's a boy, if it's Jessica a girl. You're welcome. 🎉
@mackenziemoore5088
4 күн бұрын
The sheer amount of times I whispered "what the fuck..." To myself listening to this....
@jaorlowski
5 күн бұрын
This is the kind of (non-)innuendo I'm looking for from time to time XD
@turtleboy4111
6 күн бұрын
I didn't know, now I do. And knowing is half the battle.
@Phane02
6 күн бұрын
7:45 I need to grow up...
@thelanavishnuorchestra
4 күн бұрын
So much more to that than I was expecting. I grew up on a farm and while my great aunts had chickens, it was for meat and eggs and they just did it the old fashioned way.
@alexsmith9617
5 күн бұрын
Brilliant! I suggested a career change for several of my friends and relatives. 😉
@OffGridInvestor
3 күн бұрын
I KNEW SOMEONE who had this EXACT job because I live in an area with a LOT of chicken industry. It ABSOLUTELY DOESN'T pay well and isn't lucrative. Just another boring production line type job where you've got to "go faster" all the time.
@pixality7902
Күн бұрын
I think that was implied when he commented that its almost obsolete. Code for an excuse to lower wages.
@jorgelotr3752
5 күн бұрын
11:28 Basically, the same structure as the game 20 questions.
@MrJbooker33
6 күн бұрын
Trust me Simon, my heart was broken a long long time ago.
@kolonarulez5222
23 сағат бұрын
This kid in my high school class learned about the maceration machine and gleefully went around showing and telling everyone with his phone. I wonder what that guy is up to now...
@robertmarsh8334
6 күн бұрын
I have an accidental rooster in my flock because someone made a mistake during sexing. Lucky for me he is a sweet boy so far and I didn't have a rooster before him so he has no competition
@megsley
2 күн бұрын
ive known about this since i was a little kid - theres a purdue hatchery on the road to my dads house out in the country and he explained what they did.
@BlanBonco
2 күн бұрын
That last who knew sounded a bit um blink 2x to be rescued from threat of the macerator
@jamessmithson-br7rm
2 күн бұрын
It’s easy now to get 100% success rate, if you get it wrong just say the chick identified as the other gender 😅
@jamesleatherwood5125
5 күн бұрын
8:17 SO TRUE! ive tried explaining it to people before. My eyes are normally a sentence or two at least ahead of my brains "comprehension" but most of the time, im not aware of the individual letters or words, and i havfe a movie of whatever im reading about playing in my head. Like i "see" the words and the page and all, but im all "seeing" the video of the story in my head as well.
@KalijahAnderson
3 күн бұрын
People who play video games professionally develop the automatic ID still of enemies and friends as well.
@EvilerOMEGA
Күн бұрын
7:48 I'm sorry the bird's WHAT?
@rbeasley66
5 күн бұрын
In the late '70's, early '80's, I grew up on our families 24,000 chicken egg 🥚 laying farm. At each chicken 🐔 change out, and yes, they do wear out from laying eggs, we would usually get 1 or 2 roosters in the big 24,000 egg laying chicken mix. My Dad would always put the roosters in there own 3 chicken cage by themselves. Oh, the frustration they must have felt as they crowed loudly every morning. 🐓
@johnmillis5159
3 күн бұрын
Easiest way it to look at the wings most hens wings even at a day out has more main feathers and the rooos only have a fuzzy stub wing
@TheEndTimes101
9 сағат бұрын
I had something similar happen to when watching anime. I normally only watch dub but one time messed clicked and played the episode in sub. It took over half the episodes for me to realize they weren't speaking English and that I was reading. Before it seemed just like they were speaking English as I unconsciously read the subtitles. Unfortunately, I have never been able to replicate the feet.
@DaryanPrescott
2 күн бұрын
I used to live within 20 miles of the Spencer Iowa hatching plant, and even worked for an egg laying raising pullets. Some males slip through the system, which had to be disposed of. Wasn't the funnest job ive had.
@markborn5293
6 күн бұрын
I did not know. How interesting! I drive a lot and people say I have a sixth sense in traffic. I know before hand if a car’s going to change lanes without signaling. It’s obviously not a sixth sense, it’s just experience and subconsciously picking up on micro-movements. You can’t explain how you see it, it’s like a feeling, but obviously not. I presume bird and plane recognition is along that same track. Or walking into a room and knowing there’s just been an argument. It’s just picking up signals.
@DetroitAquatics
5 күн бұрын
It’s pretty much the same For everything you do… practice makes it so you can pretty much do stuff on auto pilot. At a higher rate than people do using full concentration. For instance. People who look for Coin errors tend to be able to just quickly look at a coin and see something so minuet that regular people need a magnifying glass for
@cassieoz1702
5 күн бұрын
You need to make a better distinction between meat birds and layers. Meat birds are killed at about 6 weeks old: doesnt matter if they're male or female, the males dont live long enough to become ornery. All the laying hybrids I've dealt with for 20 years are 'self sexing' ie the males and females hatch as different colours.
@SuperTheTheresa
5 күн бұрын
well. yeah, final layer hybrids are colour or feather sexing. but their parents and grandparents and pure lines, they are all vent sexed.
@michaelmoorrees3585
Күн бұрын
I live in a rural community, and had 24 hens (down to 7 over the years, as there is no rooster, for replacements), but also have 33 ducks (of both sexes), and 20 goats. Birds are weird, as in most species, males don't have "peckers". However, ducks do have them, but their "tool" is as long as they are ! The hens have been bred to lay eggs, without the "services" of a male. I'm not sure that applies to ducks, but it doesn't matter as male ducks do not have the concept of consent, and make the "girls" aware of the presents, in an involuntary (for the girl) manner. So now, I mostly get duck eggs. As for the goats, sexing is fairly simple, as the anatomy of "those parts", are close enough, as those of people. And if you're exceptionally lazy, you can tell at a distance, by watching them take a leak. A male will stand with all 4 legs straight, with pee coming from under the center of his body. While a girl, will bend her back legs, lowering her rear, and the pee will come out towards the back. They may not pee on day one, but definitely by day 2. "Dispatching" the animals didn't bother me, as these animals, also make up some of our meat supply.
@BKimRogers
2 күн бұрын
I mean I think most people are capable of such subtle intuitive analysis based on sheer practice. Take anyone who's entirely literate in their native language. One may see a partially obscured sign on the highway for a brief moment and know what it says but certainly didn't have time to actually read it all and couldn't say which letters might have been obscured. Of course we spend thousands of hours as children learning and then our whole lives as adults practicing reading. Most of us just don't have a secondary area we train in for such volumes of time
@GodOfChicken
Күн бұрын
Ik it’s for business and the sake of having enough food product to go around. But man, those poor young cockerels.. I’ve own many chickens in my life, but the roosters are always the sweetest and most loving birds
@blackmagemasher4031
3 күн бұрын
I just think about how the American Dad episode about this made my mom stop eating chicken
@rubyrhodhooligan859
Күн бұрын
I have done many strange “dirty” jobs but never have I thought I’d actually be paid for doing something like this. I’ve raised chickens with 8 different families as a kid. I bet this might be the best job I could jump into in my new living region.
@TheSkystrider
Күн бұрын
Specialized recognition... We're all familiar with how we can automatically recognize a friend's face or even just body build in a crowd. I don't think the process the brain is doing is what was described (eliminating options based on features processed in a fixed order and then randomly choose among the remaining options) - I think it's just how neural networks, esp human ones, can get really really good at specialized recognition. It's a parallel processing where many neurons fire given all the available *relevant* information and the NN output is likely the correct choice. It's not like writing functional programming, it's weighted nodes that are trained to take input and spit out the output.
@marklemon-b7u
4 күн бұрын
My dad told me that when he was a kid a “Chinese”gentleman, could have been Japanese, used to walk around Norfolk UK chicken sexing. He said he used to do hundreds, and always accurate. He used 2 match sticks and looked up the day old chicks vent. This was probably in the 1930s. He said cockerels were chucked in a barrel lid put on it then filled with water. Nowadays a procedure that is used a lot in large hatcheries is colour sexing, based on the principle of crossing a Light Sussex with a Rhode Island Red and the colours of the chick’s sex are opposite to that of its parents ie red cockerel produces red (brown) female chick What
@davinasquirrel7672
3 күн бұрын
I believe that chick sex is determined by the female, not the male. Perhaps that is how that colour sexing works, somehow? Chicken genetics seems fairly complex.
@marklemon-b7u
2 күн бұрын
Yes true the Light Sussex being a White hen produces produces brown female chicks when x’d with Rhode Island Red and White (yellow) male Chicks
@DanCooper404
2 күн бұрын
What?
@flyboy152
6 күн бұрын
Imagine, a 22 minute video on checking underneath chickens. 😂
@dawncollins620
5 сағат бұрын
Steve from American Dad already taught me all this 🐓
@Textile_Courtesan
16 сағат бұрын
My spouse has been bitten by the homesteaders bug and I support him 100% but when he started to talk about cloaca sexing his flock I had to laugh- not at the idea of looking at bird buttholes (I'd been cloaca sexing my reptiles for a decade) but by the way ge said cloaca wrong. I couldn't keep a straight face and had to gently correct his pronunciation. I could tell it was a word he'd seen written but never used in conversation. Either way, he got his birds and I got another reptile out of the arrangements.
@stancil83
5 күн бұрын
20:45 thank God I thought it was going to be something horrible.
@jillianstolling2602
5 күн бұрын
If it makes anyone feel better, after long talks with many hatcheries, I learned, at least in the US, those dead baby chicks are often sold and made into feed. It tends to be the raw protein ingredients they use in many animal foods, so I like to think of it as, at least they aren't wasting them. Many hatcheries also sell all male mixes for people who want them for meat but find meat birds unethical. I'm sure they kill more than they sell but at least they are trying. Also I'm surprised that...male bird fighting, was not brought up in the beginning of this video as that was the primary reason it took so long for autosexing breeds to really become a thing, the primary reason chickens were kept for thousands of years was the fighting of the males. The males for most of their history have been the more desired and prized sex. The rise of hen popularity only started with Queen Victoria which in the history of their domestication was only a short time ago.
@guroluke
4 күн бұрын
If peta wants to complain, they can figure out how to raise thousands of roosters.
@Nil-tz6gy
Күн бұрын
Peta kills most of the animals they "rescue" anyways.
@junepaul7843
3 күн бұрын
hey simon. if you been working out i ccan see it. you are looking good my bro. dont try to get too big. it can look weird on some people. i feel like you might look strange too buff.. its the reason i dont try to get any bigger than i am. my personality and face would be strange with a giant musular frame. i want to remain preportional
@He4venlyBody
4 сағат бұрын
Just learned I got a skill
@rikfreeborn7690
Күн бұрын
Tarantulas can be vent sexed ,this is similar its often species specific ,but with experience and guidance can be very accurate, this is due to females being more sought after .
@SuperAd1980
2 күн бұрын
Not ending the male birds would be more unethical, as it would be 1 giant cock-fighting arena with many painful injuries and death for every bird in the area. And as cock-fighting isn't legal, then it is automatically illegal to allow them to live... The alternative is to give each male bird it's own solitary house and space, which would lead to other almost as serious phycological disorders.
@RainbowLovingRainbow
6 күн бұрын
Aww, Simon’s is teaching English now! 3:55
@hippymoustacherides
7 сағат бұрын
I thought they just count the feathers on the wings…
@kateajurors8640
3 күн бұрын
And the chicken breeze you're bringing up 18:31 Are actually crossbreeds of 2 different breeds and chicken sexers are still highly needed, especially for the commercial industry that mainly uses longhorns, which do not have an auto sexing chromosome or anything that you can cross breed with that will cause the males to distribute one gene and the females to.Distribute another. There are autosexing chicken breeds, but you need to look at those.Chicken breeds not the cross link sex breed
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