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This is why I said "get an Oriental to help." I thought I remembered that
the large processors in our area, like Tyson, hired Japanese, but wasn't
sure. I knew it was an Oriental background. My husband has talked with some
of the Tyson supervisors and they say the Japanese have something like 85%
accuracy while non-Japanese, who are trained, don't do much better than
break even.

Gene said:
>I have four chicken books. None tell how to sex chicks. One says that
>sexing just-born chicks is "an arcane science" that is largely the domain
>of Japanese-Americans. Must be the eyes. It says they can sex a thousand
>chicks per hour and at one time were paid a penny per chick. Imagine doing
>that for eight or ten hours a day, weeks and months on end. The pay is
>insufficient to pay the price of a good psychiatrist who might help the
>chick sexer regain normalcy.