Talk:Chicken sexing

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the caption is too informal. Secretlondon 22:05, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The caption made me chuckle. The article's factual yet a little light-hearted, the flippant caption doesn't jar. TB 22:24, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

They actually are called chicken sexers JeffBobFrank 06:04, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "This method is obsolete"

In the 1950s, several machines were invented that illuminated and magnified the cloacas of newborn chicks, and chicks could be sexed by inspecting them with this machine. This method is obsolete.

Why is it obsolete? Marnanel 23:05, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

This was mentioned on one of the external links. The people who made the equipment are no longer in business. Smerdis of Tlön 14:08, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

That doesn't really make it obsolete, just difficult. This article is great, by the way. --Ben Brockert 01:56, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Yes it does. Since those people are the only people that had the machines, it makes it obsolete since they are out of business. --Carl 9:21, Aug 15, 2005 (PST)

[edit] Wow.

This is, wow.

Anyone who can read this entire thing without laughing should be shot for not having a sense of humor.

I have one of these old machines dated 1959. It still works but the insertion needles got lost at some stage. It was made by Secura, Carslisle, England. Does anyone have spare needles? Peter Glaum - pkglaum@realnet.co.sz

[edit] Vent Sexing

Okay, maybe I'm wrong... I don't have a degree in avian medicine or what-have-you... but I didn't think that birds had rectums! There's the cloaca, internally, and the external opening is called the vent... but this article refers to a rectum. Could someone please explain where a bird has a rectum? EthanL (talk) 12:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)