
The chick counter is a separate digital counting system that is manually fed to segregate and count male and female chicks separately. This system has been used predominantly in Brazil for the past three to four years, and is being used now in Mexico where manual labor is relatively inexpensive and they still sex sort birds.
The benefits of the Chick Counter system include improved counting accuracy, speed and utilizing existing sex sorting labor and carousel equipment to perform two jobs vs. one. This system is also used in a way to monitor the performance of the sex sorting personnel.