Does this work???

[fionnandeburca]

It's a method for sexing young chicks.

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Nope, it doesn't work.

 

[fionnandeburca]

Nope, it doesn't work.

That's what I thought cause it didn't work for me. I thought I had done it wrong

 

[tec27]

Actually it does work. However you have to have feather sexed chicks.

 

[fionnandeburca]

Actually it does work. However you have to have feather sexed chicks.

Oh I probably didn't have them. At least I wasn't doing something ridiculous

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

On Easter Eggers it does work more or less. You can't tell the sex of a day old
Easter Egger but you can on a couple weeks old Easter Egger. Roosters should
have a splotchier color pattern than a hen. On auto-sexing birds like Sex-Links
and Legbars you can tell the difference right from birth. On most breeds you have
to wait until the chicken gets more roo-ish feathers, and that definitely tells you
you've got a roo. On Silkies you have to be an expert or just wait for it to either roo
or lay and egg.

Piper

 

[shmccarthy]

I thought it only works on certain birds. They have to have a parent with the slow feathering gene and one with the fast feathering gene.
http://www2.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/Factsheets/Sexing_day_old_chicks.pdf