Device and method for gender identification of egg embryo based on heart rate measurement

Abstract

The invention discloses a device and method for gender identification of an egg embryo based on heart rate measurement. The device comprises a transmission module, a laser module, an eggshell pick andplace module, a light source module, an image acquisition module, a control module and a computer processing terminal, the control module is respectively connected to the laser module, the eggshell pick and place module and the computer processing terminal, the laser module, the eggshell pick and place module and the image acquisition module are all located above the transmission module, and aresequentially disposed in the moving direction of the transmission module, and the light source module is located between the image acquisition module and the transmission module. The device utilizes the heart rate value of an egg hatching stage to judge the gender of eggs, is beneficial to rationally treating the eggs of different genders according to the production needs, not only effectively improves the production efficiency of the chicken industry, but also avoids killing of a large number of zero-aged cocks, avoids ethical issues, is convenient to operate, and is conducive to the actual production environment.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of biological sex identification, and more specifically to a device and method for egg embryo sex identification based on heart rate measurement. Background technique [0002] With the expansion of the scale of chicken farming, it is more and more urgent to solve the problem of difficult identification of egg embryo sex. In chicken farms, the number of roosters is only one of the production tools for fertilized eggs. The current technology is to judge the sex according to the physical characteristics of the hatched chicks. Many chicken farms directly treat the newly hatched chickens. Roosters are directly buried alive, drowned or poisoned, etc., and killed alive as waste. The methods are very cruel and there are ethical and moral problems. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the sex of chicken embryos at the early stage of development. [0003] Patent CN201510622442.4 proposes a method for identifying the sex of embryon...

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Problems solved by technology

However, the egg shape is more complicated, and there are many data types of egg shape parameters. It is necessary to collect a large amount of data to analyze the sex of eggs, and the collection and analysis process is more complicated.

[0005] The above two methods for detecting the sex of egg embryos are too cumbersome to operate, the detection process is relatively complicated, and the egg embryos are damaged during the collection and detection process, so they are not suitable for mass production.

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