Can you sex chicks by rubbing them and knowing when they shake or not?

[Painted Calls]

Well that's a new one. I'm going to say no.

 

[Nenad]

Here is video, first chick is male and second is female, try it for youself if you want and replay here so that I can know if it works.

 

[Nenad]

Here is video, first chick is male and second is female, try it for youself if you want and replay here so that I can know if it works.

Just like males don't shake if you do this to them, I tried with adult cockerels and nothing, females as you know do shaking after mating.

 

[Nenad]

Well,I have 10 week olds that I know for sure are pullets and the only thing they do once I put them down is run from me screaming. So...yeah

Please try it like in I tried in video and share if it is right

 

[MysteryChicken]

For adult birds, with all the breeding I do, males, & females do shake after breeding. Males don't do it as often though. So, I don't think this will be a very reliable method.

 

[Nenad]

For adult birds, with all the breeding I do, males, & females do shake after breeding. Males don't do it as often though. So, I don't think this will be a very reliable method.

Yeah but if you take adult cockerel or roo and do it just like I did it here, he won't shake and if you take female hen or pullet she will shake.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yeah but if you take adult cockerel or roo and do it just like I did it here, he won't shake and if you take female hen or pullet she will shake.

I give my roosters rubs, for attention, & some shake it off. Mainly on their backs.
My hens very rarely do so.

I'm not trusting the method, though it was one that was never thought of before.


You can update on the gender of the peeps you have done this too, when they get older.

 

[Nenad]

I will update for sure, I tried it with my 4 cockerels and none of them did shake, I think I read somewhere here that when male mounts her, sperm goes into some kind of tube where they store it so thats why they shake. I don't know if its true about this method but I will update every week.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

My Old English Game bantams are very fast to mature so will often 'squat' very early on when I go to pick them up or put them back down. Both males and females will shake afterward, not always, but not split by sex to my memory. I also have plenty of adult pet hens who I sometimes rub under their wings along their sides because they're so soft and fluffy there, and some of them squat / shake afterward while others don't, yet all are females. I feel like what you're seeing is coincidental with the low sample size that you have right now and that it won't end up being a reliable sexing method once it's used more and more.

I might give it a shot on my chicks this year and record some data for it, though. I can't decide if I'm curious enough to see if this will work under any circumstances, or resistant to getting quite that personal with my chicks.

 

[Iluveggers]

Interesting experiment nonetheless. Thanks for sharing!