SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPIDLY AND ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING LIVE EGGS WITHIN A STREAM OF EGGS

摘要

Systems and methods for rapidly identifying live eggs (1) within a stream (20) of eggs with high accuracy, are provided. A stream (20) of eggs are candled via a candling apparatus and each candled egg (1) is designated as being neither live, non-live, or "uncertain". Eggs (1) designated as non-live and uncertain are removed from the stream (20). Each egg (1) designated as uncertain is "recandled" at a separate station via an additional candling procedure in order to determine if the "uncertain" egg is live or non-live. Uncertain eggs identified as being live via recandling are returned to the egg stream (20) such that the stream contains only live eggs. The uncertain eggs determined to be non-live via recandling are removed and are either discarded or used for other purposes.