Despite the generous salary, nobody wants this job.

[Jazzy]

Job title: Chicken sexer

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Hours of work: 12 hours a day

Job description: Stare at chicks’ backsides

Despite the generous salary, nobody wants this job.

The UK’s poultry industry is struggling to get people to determine the sex of newly-hatched chicks, and it could hit exports.

It actually takes three years to learn the tiny differences between male and female chicks and then you’re expected to determine the sex within three to five seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ODNFSkSak

That’s between 800 and ,1,200 chicks a day – plus you’re expected to have a 97-98 per cent accuracy.

Andrew Large, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, told The Times: ‘It takes three years to train someone so they develop the sensitivity and dexterity to reliably sex the bird and a lot of people don’t want to spend that amount of training.

‘I think the problem is the job itself. You are spending hours every day staring at the backside of a chick. That is not seen as being attractive.

‘In southeast Asia a chick sexer is a high status job. In the UK it is more likely to be the butt of humour.’

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Would you do this job?

 

[#assassin]

yeah no i'd rather not do that

 

[The Supreme King]

12 hour days? No thank you.

 

[seasidemike]

I already spend my day checking out the backsides of chicks

 

[Elvira]

No, I believe not lol.

 

[MrDawn]

A lot of birds you can tell the difference by either how long their feathers are or by the color.

Cockatiels and other birds are quite easy to tell between gender.

Some birds like certain parrots, you have to send off a blood test to a lab to see what gender they are.

As for this job. I probably wouldn't want to do it.