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The Need to Automate
Poultry Feather Sexing

Poultry sexing enhances profitability by facilitating the optimization of feed strategies, promoting uniform flock growth, and boosting efficiency in hatcheries and processing plants.

However, manual feather-sexing presents major challenges. It demands a significant labor force, leading to inconsistent accuracy and operational uncertainties. Many parts of the industry have moved away from manual sexing, highlighting the need to modernize a once lucrative practice.

Discover how our new WingScan solution is changing poultry sexing.

Automated Feather Sexing Soultion

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Automated Feather Sexing Soultion

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Revolutionizing Feather Sexing 

Unlock the full potential of feather sexing with WingScan, TARGAN's cutting-edge solution. With up to 98% accuracy and consistent performance from the first chick of the day to the last, WingScan is reshaping the landscape of poultry sexing.

Through the integration of engineering and biology, TARGAN developed WingScan to prioritize animal welfare while delivering unmatched performance. WingScan sets new industry standards in speed and accuracy, ensuring optimal results for poultry producers.

It's time to automate feather sexing with WingScan.

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Automating Feather Sexing

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The WingScan Benefits

Reimagining Hatchery Performance

Improve productivity and performance at your hatcheries with WingScan, ensuring efficiency and optimizing operations.

Hatchery Benefits

  • +Accuracy: Guaranteed 95%+ accuracy, with an infield performance of 98%.
  • +High Throughput: Sex up to 100k chicks per hour, per system.
  • +Labor Savings: 1 operator replaces up to 32 or more employees.
  • +Efficient: Outpaces manual sexing, shortening processing days.
  • +Reliability: Consistent all-day performance without throughput fade.
  • +Data Capture: Leverage captured flock data to make informed decisions.
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Automated Feather Sexing Soultion

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The WingScan Benefits

Unlocking Downstream Value

Transform your production chain with WingScan and unlock unprecedented value across your farms and processing plants.

Downstream Benefits

  • +Management Flexibility: Separate female and male flocks allow for targeted feed, health, and barn management programs to target specific outcomes.
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  • +Flock Uniformity: More consistent and predictable bird weights at catching and transport.
  • +Enhanced Plant Automation: Uniform birds benefit primary processing from stunning to portioning, deboning, and packaging.
  • +Maximize Yield: Uniform carcass size enables deboning systems to make precise cuts, enhancing yield and minimizing bone fragments. Reduced size variability lowers the risk of human error during manual deboning.
  • +Sales Efficiency: Less bird variation, higher predictability, improved production planning and increased order fulfillment.
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The Impact of Sexing on Uniformity

Utilizing WingScan for broiler sexing significantly enhances flock uniformity, leading to more consistent and predictable growth patterns. Below are graphs that compare the weight distribution of non-sexed and sexed broilers aiming for a target weight of 6 lbs (2.72 kg), showcasing the improved uniformity WingScan delivers to your operations.

Straight-Run: This graph presents the weight distribution for non-sexed (straight-run) birds, showing distinct curves for males and females and their combined average. The data shows average weights of 6.55 lbs (2.97 kg) for males and 5.65 lbs (2.56 kg) for females, with an overall average of 6.10 lbs (2.77 kg). This illustrates the variance in growth patterns when sexing is not applied.

Sexed: The subsequent graph highlights the benefits of sexing on broiler weight distribution. With sexing, birds show a much narrower weight distribution around the 6 lb (2.72 kg) target. The average weights for sexed males and females are 6.07 lbs (2.75 kg) and 6.02 lbs (2.73 kg), respectively, demonstrating a significant 24% increase in birds reaching the target weight.

Sources: Evaluating Uniformity in Broilers - Factors Affecting Variation | The Poultry Site | RossxRoss708-BroilerPerformanceObjectives2022-EN.pdf (aviagen.com) | EPMxRoss708-BroilerPerformanceObjectives2022-EN.pdf (aviagen.com) | YPxRoss708-BroilerPerformanceObjectives2022-EN.pdf (aviagen.com) | RossxRoss308-BroilerPerformanceObjectives2022-EN.pdf (aviagen.com) | 2022-Cobb500-Broiler-Performance-Nutrition-Supplement.pdf (cobb-vantress.com)

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AUTOMATION

Reduces labor requirements while maintaining (or increasing) throughput potential.

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MACHINE LEARNING

Achieve up to 98% accuracy from day one. Compatible with all feather sexable breeds tested to date.

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VISION TECH

High-performance vision system swiftly and accurately determines chick sex, processing up to 100,000 chicks per hour.

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SORTING TECH

Sort chicks in a welfare-friendly process that minimizes stress and complies with all known US, Canadian, and European welfare standards.

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DATA CAPTURE

Enhances workflows, streamlining processes while utilizing data for performance tracking.

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COMPUTING

Industrial communication systems enable efficient data processing for enhanced real-time monitoring.

Your Success is our Priority

Data capture drives real-time decisions, prevents downtime, and improves reporting and forecasting

Reliable Service by a round-the-clock, highly trained service specialist team

Modular Design enables customization to meet all hatchery requirements

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Increase your profits

The Benefits of
Feather Sexing

Discover the advantages of feather sexing and its benefits across the production chain.

Revolutionize your production processes with WingScan and unlock untapped value.

Poultry sex Identification

Nutrition Management

Feather sexing allows tailored feeding strategies for male and female birds, maximizing growth potential and flock health.

 

Improved Uniformity

Feather sexing enables tighter weight distribution curves, allowing more birds to meet target weights.

Increased Yield

Feather sexing boosts yield by ensuring greater uniformity, enhancing the quality of breast, wing, and thigh meat. This improvement translates into significant revenue gains. 

Optimized Production

Separating male and female birds optimizes capacity, reduces variation, and ensures consistent product quality for processing automation. 

Improved Processing Planning

Separating male and female birds at an early stage provides valuable insights for processing plants, facilitating better planning and optimization of operations.

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Ali Matloub
Ali Matloub

Director of Sales & Business Development,
International Markets

Vincent
Vincent Fevrier

Commercial Lead, Europe & North Africa

Colby
Colby Cummings

Key Account Manager,
United States

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Kirk Adams

VP, Sales, Marketing and Commercial Initiatives