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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2011
Gerald Steiner, Schwarzenberg, DE;
Edmund Koch, Dresden, DE;
Maria-elisabeth Krautwald-junghanns, Markleeberg, DE;
Thomas Bartels, Gehrden, DE;
Gerald Steiner, Schwarzenberg, DE;
Edmund Koch, Dresden, DE;
Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns, Markleeberg, DE;
Thomas Bartels, Gehrden, DE;
Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, DE;
Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device () for determining the sex of fertilized, nonincubated bird eggs (), where an egg () has a solid egg shell (), an egg yolk () which is surrounded by the egg shell and further egg integuments and a blastodisc () associated with the egg yolk (), and where a probe () for measuring a spectrum is introduced through a hole () of the egg shell () towards the blastodisc () with blastodisc cells (), with the following steps: —positioning of the probe () in the region of the blastodisc (), —spectroscopic in-ovo characterization of the blastodisc cells (), and —identification of the sex by an automatic classification of spectra.