Animal AgTech agency, TARGAN, Inc., will make the European debut of WingScan™ at EuroTier 2024. The US-based producer’s automated chick feather intercourse identification system leverages artificial intelligence (AI)-powered superior imaging experience to determine and type feminine and male day-old chicks based mostly totally on their feathers.
Ramin Karimpour, Founder and CEO at TARGAN, acknowledged: “With world meat consumption anticipated to double by 2050, the enterprise should shortly evolve to feed our rising inhabitants. In Europe, poultry is probably going probably the most usually produced and consumed animal-based protein sources, nonetheless the sector faces an array of challenges to meet demand, along with workforce complexities, tightening welfare necessities and higher shopper expectations — all areas that could be addressed with our strategies.”
The WingScan™ system presents a throughput of as a lot as 100,000 chicks per hour, counting on the configuration, with as a lot as 98% accuracy. Automated chick sexing improves effectivity and effectivity, leading to downstream benefits on the farm and plant. By implementing gender-specific rearing strategies, producers can improve flock uniformity, which reinforces plant operations.
By overcoming the need for large teams of knowledgeable information chick sexers, WingScan™ permits hatcheries to deal with labour challenges. Hatcheries that are able to extend productiveness, have a bigger potential to achieve fixed, high-precision outcomes and improved ROI all through your total price chain.
TARGAN’s Enterprise Lead for Europe, Vincent Fevrier, added: “We have been eagerly working within the path of this launch on account of we are going to see the great various for the European poultry sector to refine its operations by integrating automated and AI-powered strategies like ours. Manufacturing challenges in Europe are echoed all by the broader world enterprise, and we want our choices to play a pivotal place in addressing these factors. Our employees is labored as much as attend EuroTier, forge new relationships and reconnect with current companions in November.”
TARGAN will showcase its revolutionary WingScan™ system for elevated hatchery, farm, and plant effectivity, in Hall 17, Stand B08, the place the employees could be available to debate their strategies, experience and mission to help a extra wholesome, further sustainable meals present by engineering precise, environment friendly and safe utilized sciences.