The role of a chicken sexer consists of sorting out the males chicks from the females chicks. This highly respected technique was developed in 1924 by three Japanese scientists. “The skill, say the experts, requires great concentration, accuracy, long hours of training and practice examination. “

Specialists in chicken sexing are getting worried about their future: “species have been developed that can be sexed by visible characteristics such as feathers, colours and markings.”

There is still a future for the chicken sexers; and this future is in France – in the Bresse region – where about 100 chicken sexers practice their specialty on the expensive “Rolls-Royce of chickens”.  “Sorting the boys from the girls is crucial to determining the feed and the fate of the birds, thus vital to the economics of the farm, but it is no easy task. “

It’s probably an easy task for a former European champion sexer who said he had won his champion's title for "treating 100 chicks in around four minutes with a 100 percent success rate."

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