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Who is Who? Non-invasive Methods to Individually Sex and Mark Altricial Chicks

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08:14 min

May 24th, 2014

May 24th, 2014

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Title

1:32

Reagents and Consumables Preparation

2:25

Sample Collection

3:26

DNA Extraction

4:16

Molecular Sex Determination

5:34

Marking Nestlings

6:32

Results: Successful Identification of Sex in Birds

7:37

Conclusion

This protocol provides a convenient set of methods, which enables extremely fast, easy, non-invasive, reliable and low-cost, molecular sex determination of birds and their non-invasive, quick, safe and easily recognizable marking shortly after hatching. Only limited handling of chicks is required. This convenient toolbox of methods complies entirely with the RRR-guidelines.

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