Damn, I only ever hear of good opportunities when it's too late.
Apparently, there is such a thing as a chicken sexer even though most people, myself included, have never heard of it and people applying that trade are in high demand in farms in the UK: they earn up to £40,000 a year just staring at the backside of chicks. 'I already do that on the beach' you will tell me and while it sounds easy enough, it's not: apparently you have to train for three years to be able work out a chick's gender by looking at its rectal area for a few seconds. The process of sorting out the baby birds by gender is necessary in the industry, since roosters unlike hens don't lay eggs and thus have to be culled almost immediately or go to be raised for meat.
The job requires manual dexterity, acute eyesight and is labour-intensive: you have to sort out thousands of chicks a day which may partly explain why there are less and less people willing to do it. The time devoted for training (three years) is another downer.
For one, for that type of money, I want farmers not to despair and to know that there is at least one person up for the job in the UK: myself. They would have to make allowance for my eyesight that isn't what it used to be: I have finally resorted to wearing glasses since I can't elongate my arms far enough to be able to read for example. Being a musician, they will be pleased to know that intense practise on various instruments throughout my life has given me an insane level of dexterity and precision: in other word I won't squash, crush or otherwise hurt chicks in the process of handling them.
If you are a UK-based chicken farmer and are interested, feel free to get in touch by commenting below. Speak to you soon and, thanking you in advance for your interest, I will look forward to hearing from you.
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