As a traditional industry, poultry farming often faces pain points such as high personnel density, low management efficiency, and difficulty in disease prevention and control. In recent years, with the development of high-performance technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, image processing, speech recognition, and data mining have played an increasingly important role in poultry breeding and hatching. Taking the gender identification of one day old chicks in a hatchery as an example, traditional anal turning technicians need to receive at least 3 months of training to master the skill of identifying the gender of chicks with the naked eye, and their efficiency may also be affected by factors such as personnel fatigue. But have you ever thought that newborn chicks can be automatically identified as male or female by machines?

　　Shanghai Xiashu Intelligent Technology Company has developed the world's first commercial chicken anal sex identification device. This device integrates image recognition, optical sensing, mechanical automation, algorithm processing, and information system, with an average accuracy of 98.7% and a speed of 1200 chicks per hour to identify white feathered broiler chickens, yellow feathered broiler chickens, laying hens, and turkeys. It has been adopted by many poultry companies including Anweijie, Roman, Kebao, Zhengda, Longhe, Wenshi, Lihua, and Dafeng, covering 21 countries and regions around the world. Since the first device was launched in 2022, due to its high price, this chick gender identification device has mainly been sold in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other places, and has not yet entered the Chinese market on a large scale. With the accumulation of data and further upgrading of technology, considering the particularity of the Chinese market, Xia Shu Technology has specially developed a domestic version of the chicken gender identification equipment (CKIE-V5M) suitable for the poultry farming industry in China. The domestic version of chicken sex identification equipment uses a lower cost design method and uses Chinese chicken breed data for modeling. It is sold in Chinese Mainland at less than 50% of the price of the European and American version of chicken sex identification equipment. It began to accept reservations in April this year. The delivery cycle does not exceed 30 days. At present, there are a large number of orders. This device is composed of the core identification module of the original device, supplemented by a lifting bracket and an intelligent identification table. While reducing the size of the device, it does not affect the overall identification efficiency, but is convenient to disassemble and carry, and has received unanimous praise from customers. The following diagram shows the CKIE-V5M domestic version equipment and intelligent authentication platform. The intelligent identification station can be purchased separately and can achieve functions such as seedling counting and specification testing.

Image: CKIE-V5M Domestic Moderator View

Image: Left view of CKIE-V5M domestic version

　　It is reported that the international agent for the chicken gender identification equipment is EW Group, the world's largest poultry breeding company, and the Southeast Asian agent is Teoseng Capital (7252. KL), a Malaysian listed company. By 2023, more than 100 units have been sold in the international market, covering over 40 chicken breeds. Due to its stability and high precision, the chicken gender identification equipment has entered major poultry breeding companies worldwide and has been repurchased multiple times.

　　Shanghai Xiashu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. is a "Star of Enlightenment" enterprise, an important member of the Smart Agriculture and Informatization Research Group of Tsinghua University Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, and a company jointly invested and cultivated by Tsinghua University Suzhou Environmental Innovation Research Institute. In addition to receiving strong support from Tsinghua University in experimental research and development, the core team members of the company have all graduated from top 20 universities in the world, such as Harvard University, Imperial College London, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, etc., and have received funding from the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program and Suzhou Suzhou Talent Program. The company is headquartered in Shanghai and has subsidiaries in Suzhou, Jiaxing, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Malaysia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other places.

　　In addition to the chicken gender identification equipment, Xiashu Technology has also launched automatic gender identification equipment for ducklings, fast and slow feather gender identification equipment for chicks, and poultry image weight estimation equipment, all of which are in a leading global position and have entered the international market. Among them, the duckling gender identification device is mainly targeted at the duck market that requires anal identification, with an accuracy of not less than 98%; The fast and slow feather identification equipment achieves high-precision and high-speed feather speed identification through auxiliary manual labor, with an accuracy of not less than 98% and a speed of up to 3000 feathers per hour; The image weight estimation equipment mainly uses visual detection algorithms, supplemented by weighing scales, to achieve high-precision measurement of the weight of all day old poultry and future trend prediction. At the same time, it automatically determines the gender of poultry and returns individual weight distribution maps in real time. The accuracy of weight measurement shall not be less than 98.5%, and the accuracy of weight prediction for the next day/week shall not be less than 90%.

　　The company's research projects cover the application of artificial intelligence technology in breeding, incubation, breeding, slaughtering, and food processing. We sincerely explore diverse and innovative cooperation models with industry enterprises, strengthen communication and mutual learning, integrate artificial intelligence with animal husbandry, and help upgrade the industry. We strive to root intelligent technology in the land of China and use science and technology to support the development of China's animal husbandry industry.