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

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

Article DOI: 10.3791/51429-v 08:14 min May 24th, 2014
May 24th, 2014

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Summary

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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Keywords: Non-invasive Sex Determination Individual Marking Chicks Altricial DNA Extraction Buccal Swabs Down Feather Trimming Animal Welfare RRR-principle Song Birds Field Research Lab Experiments
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