Would you be a chicken sexer for £40k a year?

Britain is experiencing a shortage of chick sexers.

Despite offering a salary £40,000 a year, the British Poultry Council is finding it hard to recruit people who are able to check the sex of chicks.

A harder look at what is involved may reveal why.

Chick sexers spend their days looking inside the bird's anuses to see whether they are male or female. Chick's anuses are referred to as vents - just in case you wanted to know.

Sexers delicately squeeze a little poo out of the chick to open the vent then look inside and check for a bump. That means it's male.

They are usually paid £3 per 100 chicks examined and examine around one to 1.5 million per year.