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[ShineyDiamond13]

What the best was to find out the sex of a baby chick? That’s been very hard for me so far! Tips are helpful and appreciated

 

[SandyRiverChick]

In my area everyone knows Fran the Chicken lady. She has an amazing record of sexing chicks correctly at the Feed store she works for. It's only one of her tips but she showed me once that she flips them over on thier backs in hand. Males will immediately squirm to flip over and females won't. But that's day old babies, not sure if it works when they're older. And again it's just one trick, there are the feathers and look of comb/wattles compared to each other of same breed, etc. etc.

 

[ShineyDiamond13]

In my area everyone knows Fran the Chicken lady. She has an amazing record of sexing chicks correctly at the Feed store she works for. It's only one of her tips but she showed me once that she flips them over on thier backs in hand. Males will immediately squirm to flip over and females won't. But that's day old babies, not sure if it works when they're older. And again it's just one trick, there are the feathers and look of comb/wattles compared to each other of same breed, etc. etc.

Thanks for your info!! I will try with newborn should have one in a few hours!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Thanks for your info!! I will try with newborn should have one in a few hours!

Exciting!!!!!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

one of her tips but she showed me once that she flips them over on thier backs in hand. Males will immediately squirm to flip over and females won't. But that's day old babies, not sure if it works when they're older.

That's considered a sign of chick vitality (page 48 in the following link) not relevant to gender, according to my favorite technical hatching resource.. (Noting most chicks are 2-3 days old before they arrive at their feed store regarding timing relevance).

https://www.hubbardbreeders.com/media/incubation_guideen__053407700_1525_26062017.pdf

Thank you for sharing, my response is not meant to single you (or Fran) out!

What the best was to find out the sex of a baby chick?

Welcome to BYC!

We're here to enable ALL your chick hatching adventures!

Sex linking genes (using silver, chocolate, barring. slow X fast feathering, dark X light skin, etc) and auto sexing breeds are great ways to find out chick gender at HATCH (not birth ) without having to wait for development of other clues like feather pattern color (4-8 weeks average), comb and red wattle development (4-8 weeks), or gender specific saddle feathers in non hen feathered breeds (12-16 weeks). Times stated are early to average.. later is always possible.

My gut says the colorful one with white legs and silver neck feathers is going to be a gorgeous cockerel. Maybe it's just a speckled sussex cross with nice mahogany color?? I see NO confirmation clues so please take it with a grain of salt and just for fun. The other two still look pullet specific colored (blah brown with salmon chest), though I can see they're not fully in feather yet so wouldn't yet attempt to guarantee that it isn't just still juvenile camo.

Happy hatching!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Thank you for sharing, my response is not meant to single you (or Fran) out!

Not a problem, whatever works for her works for me. I have never had the issue of an unwanted cockerel `= 50chicks from her so far. So I'm not going to tell her this doesn't work unless my luck with her changes. Thanks.