Can anyone identify the gender of my chick?

[chicklover44]

my chick is one week old and i’ve been told by one chick expert that it’s a female and someone else said it was a male. can anyone tell by looking at it?

 

[theoldchick]

Too young.

 

[PlymouthRockBBredSebright]

my chick is one week old and i’ve been told by one chick expert that it’s a female and someone else said it was a male. can anyone tell by looking at it?

female

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

female

 

[Kat C]

my chick is one week old and i’ve been told by one chick expert that it’s a female and someone else said it was a male. can anyone tell by looking at it?

It is what it is and you will know in time Unless a chick is sex linked by some trait 1 week old is too early for anyone but the professional sexers to call. IMO

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

then how do you get sexed non-autosex chicks from hatcheries???

 

[alexa009]

Well I am pretty sure the chick is a red sexlink looks very similar to mine so I will say female for sure because male red sexlinks can only be white while the females are red.

 

[chicklover44]

also it does not matter to me what gender the chick is, i will love it no matter what. i just have it for a pet, not for eggs, breeding, or meat. just curious!

 

[Kat C]

then how do you get sexed non-autosex chicks from hatcheries???

hatcheries have professional sexers. http://www.jobmonkey.com/uniquejobs/chicken-sexers/ from what I have read it is more intuitive than anything else. Somewhere I read that instead of being told the difference the trainees just make calls and an experienced sexer tells them if they are right or wrong and after a while the make more and more correct calls without actually knowing how they make the right call. You can google vent sexing if you want to try it. I could never see any difference in the vents. I have seen some people say you can do wing sexing but I think that only works on certain breeds, it certainly doesn't work on our mixed flock as we have fast and slow feathering traits all mixed up. But you can check that out too. Just google chicken wing sexing. Sometimes you get a sense in a chick that is a week or two but sometimes they can get quite a bit older and you still call it wrong. That is why we had a rooster named Henny and a hen named Arya - for are you a hen or a rooster

 

[Cyprus]

My gut is saying female, but again it is too young to tell unless the chick is a sex-link.