Bantam Breed and Gender Help!

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nuthatched said:
It's false in any line not bred for it and it has to be specifically bred for and only applies to day 1.
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It works well from day 1 to day 3.
It's not like autosexing so it's not in a "line" of a breed. It's sex linked so you have to cross certain birds for it to work.
I've heard there's certain breeds that they do it with but for that to be true it would have to be a breed with two seperate lines maintained. One fast feathering and one slow feathering.
Doesn't seem like that's something anyone would bother with :confused:
 
The Moonshiner said:
It works well from day 1 to day 3.
It's not like autosexing so it's not in a "line" of a breed. It's sex linked so you have to cross certain birds for it to work.
I've heard there's certain breeds that they do it with but for that to be true it would have to be a breed with two seperate lines maintained. One fast feathering and one slow feathering.
Doesn't seem like that's something anyone would bother with :confused:
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I wouldn't bother with it, personally.
 
The Moonshiner said:
The split wing thing is completely false. Not sure where that came from.
The way wing sexing works is by breeding a male with the fast feathering genes to a female with slow feathering genes.
Feather growth rate is sex linked so you have to cross certain birds a certain way for it to work.
They're crosses not a line of a certain breed.
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I saw the split wing thing on one of the articles here on BYC.
 
Chick 3 is a Silver Laced Sebright. Chick 4 looks like a bantam RIR.
The Moonshiner said:
The split wing thing is completely false. Not sure where that came from.
The way wing sexing works is by breeding a male with the fast feathering genes to a female with slow feathering genes.
Feather growth rate is sex linked so you have to cross certain birds a certain way for it to work.
They're crosses not a line of a certain breed.
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Agreed.
 
Indeed, that's my experiment for testing the accuracy of old wives' tale type chick sexing methods, not meant to be a database of methods to actually use for sexing chicks. 🙂 As for the accuracy of the wing split test, it accurately predicted the sex of 17 of my chicks... out of the 47 that I tested with that method. That's a whopping 64% failure rate for sexing chicks with that method! The best method I've found so far through that experiment is to just wait it out until about 6 weeks of age!
 
pipdzipdnreadytogo said:
Indeed, that's my experiment for testing the accuracy of old wives' tale type chick sexing methods, not meant to be a database of methods to actually use for sexing chicks. 🙂 As for the accuracy of the wing split test, it accurately predicted the sex of 17 of my chicks... out of the 47 that I tested with that method. That's a whopping 64% failure rate for sexing chicks with that method! The best method I've found so far through that experiment is to just wait it out until about 6 weeks of age!
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Thank you for giving me that information! Sorry for not reading through the article thoroughly enough, but this really helps me with sexing the chicks.
 

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