Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[emvickrey]

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Hi Bargain!
Whats the string and paper clip thing? I've never heard of it! I've heard of many other ideas for sexing, but not this!

I just looked up the string technique. It's said to not work, but who knows? These things are always up for debate. It says that you dangle the clip over the chick and if it moves around and around it's a pullet, if it sways it's a cockerel. Is that it, Bargain?

That string thing is suppose to work over a pregnant womans belly. Never heard to hold it over a chick.

As far as the vent sexing, there was a show on Dirty Jobs where he went to a hatchery and was taught how to vent sex chicks. You can probably look it up. Try youtube. What I remember about the Dirty Job show is you have to squeeze the poop out and use your fingers to open up the vent and look. If you see a shiny bump, it's a boy, no bump it's a girl. But see if you can find the show on Discovery.com before you hold me to what to look for. I may have to do the same thing to be able to sex the silkies. Luckily one crowed and the others started laying eggs. Pretty much was definate after that.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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I just looked up the string technique. It's said to not work, but who knows? These things are always up for debate. It says that you dangle the clip over the chick and if it moves around and around it's a pullet, if it sways it's a cockerel. Is that it, Bargain?

That string thing is suppose to work over a pregnant womans belly. Never heard to hold it over a chick.

As far as the vent sexing, there was a show on Dirty Jobs where he went to a hatchery and was taught how to vent sex chicks. You can probably look it up. Try youtube. What I remember about the Dirty Job show is you have to squeeze the poop out and use your fingers to open up the vent and look. If you see a shiny bump, it's a boy, no bump it's a girl. But see if you can find the show on Discovery.com before you hold me to what to look for. I may have to do the same thing to be able to sex the silkies. Luckily one crowed and the others started laying eggs. Pretty much was definate after that.

I'm looking up a whole bunch of ways to sex chicks. Most are feather-sexing for sexlinks at hatcheries. Don't need that, I have four sexlinks already and I'm not hatching any right now... I'll look up vent sexing now.

 

[emvickrey]

The way I can tell by the feather sexing of smooth feathered chicks is if the feathers are mostly straight in a like even with each other at the ends it's a girl and if the wing tip feathers are longer it's a boy. Now those wth frizzled and silkied feathers I can't tell. I have to wait till they grow up. I would try the vent sexing but i'm afraid to get pooped at. With my face near that area, I don't want to take any chances.

 

[bargain]

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Hi Bargain!
Whats the string and paper clip thing? I've never heard of it! I've heard of many other ideas for sexing, but not this!

I just looked up the string technique. It's said to not work, but who knows? These things are always up for debate. It says that you dangle the clip over the chick and if it moves around and around it's a pullet, if it sways it's a cockerel. Is that it, Bargain?

Well that's the one....Try it on human beings....If it works there, you may have the gift for doing this....... When I believed I could do this, it worked most of the time. My granfather could "devine" for water, using a wooden stick that looked like a slingshot branch of wood. I know one thing for sure, when it lays an egg, it's a hen!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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Can you feather-sex, say, Orpingtons? I know there are certain breeds but I have no idea which breeds

 

[crazychicken]

Help ! I keep looking at the calendar and I don't think I can stop... Saturday I am going to drive out to see the breeder near me with barnevelder's ! I think time has purposely slowed down just to spite me...

Is it too much to ask for time to be nice ? Thanks time slower where were you when I was writing an English paper ? All I got then was your brother time speeder upper....Where is he this time ?

Wants my lil chickies now

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I also found out that one of my lil banty hens is broody

but she is sitting on absolutly nothing

 

[bargain]

So what are you going to put under that broody????mmmmmmmmmmmm.....Gotta get something....Somehow! Ya gonna barnvelder???? mmmm I'm staying tuned

Okay I should really get some laundry folded and away and I'm sitting here! What's up with my brain..........LOL
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[Muggsmagee]

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I just looked up the string technique. It's said to not work, but who knows? These things are always up for debate. It says that you dangle the clip over the chick and if it moves around and around it's a pullet, if it sways it's a cockerel. Is that it, Bargain?

That string thing is suppose to work over a pregnant womans belly. Never heard to hold it over a chick.

As far as the vent sexing, there was a show on Dirty Jobs where he went to a hatchery and was taught how to vent sex chicks. You can probably look it up. Try youtube. What I remember about the Dirty Job show is you have to squeeze the poop out and use your fingers to open up the vent and look. If you see a shiny bump, it's a boy, no bump it's a girl. But see if you can find the show on Discovery.com before you hold me to what to look for. I may have to do the same thing to be able to sex the silkies. Luckily one crowed and the others started laying eggs. Pretty much was definate after that.

Yes! It does. If you take a sewing needle and dangle it off of 6 to 8 inches of thread over a pregnant woman's belly (or forearm) about an inch or two above bare skin...if the needle swings in a circle, it will be a girl....if it swings in a line it will be a boy. My first pregnancy it read a boy. My second it read a girl. You can use this to determine how many kids they will have, too. I did this when prego w/ my first born. It came up boy, girl, boy. My first is a boy, my second is a girl and I've had several miscarriages.

So I can say it's at least 2/3 accurate.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I just looked up the string technique. It's said to not work, but who knows? These things are always up for debate. It says that you dangle the clip over the chick and if it moves around and around it's a pullet, if it sways it's a cockerel. Is that it, Bargain?

Well that's the one....Try it on human beings....If it works there, you may have the gift for doing this....... When I believed I could do this, it worked most of the time. My granfather could "devine" for water, using a wooden stick that looked like a slingshot branch of wood. I know one thing for sure, when it lays an egg, it's a hen!

My husband does this...we call it dowsing. He worked for a well drilling company and his skill was extremely useful in finding the vein of water in the ground AND he could detect within a few feet how far below the surface. When he worked for the Village Garage, they were ditch digging and had to locate a huge water main. They dug and dug and dug and couldn't find it. Finally, after the third call to the water company and them telling the village guys they were going to "hit" the line at any moment, my DH grabbed a wire hanger, broke it into two "L"s and went for a walk. He located the water main 25 ft away from the road, over 20 ft from where it "should be" and where it was documented on deeded paper!

If I didn't see him do this myself, I wouldn't believe it works.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

GammaPoppyLilyFlutter wrote:
AmyJ wrote:
Oh no! I think I am getting an incubator! I'm in more trouble now!!

Yep- "trouble" What kind of incubator?

Big trouble, thats Trouble, with a Capitol "T", and that rhymes with "Me" and I'm an incubating fool!

(Sorry could not resist a little play on 'Trouble' from the Music Man (a musical)

It started with the desire to build an incubator, then buying an autoturner, but finding a used one locally that came with an incubator, and then the realization that multiple incubators could mean non-stop hatching fun, and now I have 3 incubators and I am eyeing the 1588 Genesis Hovabator that cost more than I paid for my car! (Ok, so it was a cheap car, but still) This little chicken hobby is in the hundreds dollars and will break a thousand if I do the Genesis and I should have sent that money to the credit cards, instead of paying 29% interest, but that's why this is the thread for addicts!

Oh, and in my defense, at least I blew the money on chicken stuff instead of on drinkin or gamblin or drugs!

(You know you REALLY have a problem when you justify your addiction by comparing it favorably to a "worse addictions"!)

I have a 1588 Genesis Hova-Bator w/ the auto turners - I'll never use another incubator!! If you are to get a incubator get the 1588 Genesis Hova-Bators w/ the auto turners!