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Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School

A spacious wooden barn with rows of chickens and ducklings inside, illuminated by warm lighting, serves as the Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School, founded in 1934 in Nagoya to teach the method of sorting chicks under supervision.

Founded in Nagoya in 1934 to formalise Masui's method, the school ran a two-year residential apprenticeship in which students sorted tens of thousands of chicks under a master's supervision. Its graduates seeded the global poultry industry between the 1930s and the 1980s, travelling on contract to hatcheries across North America, Britain, and Australia. The school closed in 1995 as automation and demographics caught up.

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