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A school has 12 Isa Brown chicks that they hatched and are trying to get rid of. Is there a way to tell their sex when they are a week or two old? Now is not a good time of the year to get chicks but they're free and if I knew they were hens I think it would be worth the effort. I'd rather not have chickens taking up space all winter in my heated garage to find out that they are roosters.
 
If they hatched them, they probably arent true ISA brown chicks. Probably can't sex them until they are big enough to exhibit male or female feathering, or combs getting big.
 
Because only a very few hatcheries have ISA browns. They are a hybrid. If someone bought ISA brown chicks, grew them up, and hatched their eggs, they won't be ISA browns. They will just be a mix. True ISA browns from a hatchery are sex linked, and can be sexed at hatch.

Edited to say that only Townline Hatchery has ISA brown chicks available for sale.
 
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Townline Hatchery in Zeeland, Michigan is the only licensed hatchery in the U.S. that sells the real ISA Brown. If you find ISA Brown chicks at other hatcheries they still come from Townline Hatchery which sells to so called Hatcheries that sell chicks but don't actually hatch them.
 
Bmmjz Chicks said:
A school has 12 Isa Brown chicks that they hatched and are trying to get rid of. Is there a way to tell their sex when they are a week or two old? Now is not a good time of the year to get chicks but they're free and if I knew they were hens I think it would be worth the effort. I'd rather not have chickens taking up space all winter in my heated garage to find out that they are roosters.
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The female chicks both ISA Browns and Red Sex Links will be a buff color and the male chicks will be more of a white color. If the school hatched them, they are not ISA Browns but rather Red Sex Links.
 
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Bmmjz Chicks said:
A school has 12 Isa Brown chicks that they hatched and are trying to get rid of. Is there a way to tell their sex when they are a week or two old? Now is not a good time of the year to get chicks but they're free and if I knew they were hens I think it would be worth the effort. I'd rather not have chickens taking up space all winter in my heated garage to find out that they are roosters.
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Where did you get the eggs?
If the eggs came from http://www.townlinehatchery.com/ then they are true Sex-links and are White Males and Red Females.

Now if you got the eggs from a "backyard breeder" then they are not Sex-links (or ISA Browns) so they will be harder to tell sex at birth. (A Red Sex-link bred to a Red Sex-link doesn't produce Red Sex-link offspring)


Chris
 
Chris09 said:
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This is true. I have experimented with breeding my true Townline Hatchery Isa Browns and the chicks came out all colors. I even had
black chicks hatch out. Not all Sex Links are Isa Browns. I have crossed a RIR male with a Delaware female. The female chicks look like the RIR father and the males look like the Delaware mothers. Also I have crossed RIR males with RIW females and the female chicks look like the RSL and the male chicks are white with some brown and black coloring in their feathering. Here is a good article by the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture

Here are some of the chicks from my Isa Browns.


Some of my Isa Browns from Townline Hatchery
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