Sexing Mixed Breed Chicks

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WhiskiRanch

WhiskiRanch

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Jan 7, 2013
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Is there a way to sex mixed breed chicks? My hens are all black sex links but my rooster is a mutt who I believe to be a red splash laced wyandotte crossed with something else. Last year some of my chicks hatched out looking like Black sex links and some hatched out looking like red sex links but about half hatch out in all sorts of mixed colors. I dont know how to sex them by looking at the vents and have heard that can be difficult. Any opinions would be awesome!!!
 
No, a sex link will not breed true not even with another mutt chicken. If you want sex links you will have to start out with that pure line and then get the sex link. Like BR hens, with RIR rooster, i believe that is a black sex link birds.

As for sexing them, if they are young enough look at their wings. Females will have two rows of little stubbles of feathers males will have one. This is not 100% though, not even Venting is.
 
What I get isn't important. I raise my chickens primarily for their eggs but when I had a few batch's hatch last year, I loved the colors I was getting. I don't want or need any specific breed. But since it doesn't sound like Ill be able to tell the sex of my chicks, Ill be selling them as straight run to my local feed store, which is fine :) I do remember that out of the chicks I kept track of last year (I had 6 batches with over 60 chicks in total), the ones that had a "Mohawk" type pattern on their heads turned out to be cockerels. I wonder if that could play into me sexing my chicks at all. I thought they looked so cute and as I watched them grow up, I noticed they turned out to be cockerels.
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No, that can't play into sexing them at all, the only real way you would be able to sex a chick by color quickly is if its a sex link. But some BR breeders can tell a pullet from a cock by the chicks legs. In BR chicks the pullets have darker legs then the cocks. But in your case, yours are just mixes. So there are TWO ways to tell. Venting and Feather sexing. Vent sexing is hard. Feather sexing is not that bad.

If you want to try venting, the chick will scream, but cocks should have a little bitty bump (If you can even see it) and pullets will not.
I think Feather sexing is much easier. A hatched chick, fuzzed out, take it and look at its wing. You have to look very well under a light to try and see it better. Pullets have two rows of feather stubs. A cock will have one.

Venting nor feather sexing are 100% its more like 90% if you know what you are doing. But once you get the hang of it it shouldn't be that hard.
 
Yes i know, but i don't know what breeds it apply to i am giving her ideas. Do you know what breeds it apply to? I think Wyandottos are one of the breeds it doesn't work on. Thats a far as i know about which breed it works for and which it doesn't.
 
Thanks for all the ideas everyone
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. Im gonna mess with my chicks and see what I can discover but will most likely sell them to the localk feed store as straight run
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