Easy! 98% way to sex chicks.

[Olive Hill]

Have any of you ever watched videos of chicks being handled in hatcheries? I assure you picking them up by the head or beak for a couple seconds is not going to kill them at a day or two old. Most people at home are infinitely gentler with the chicks than you actually have to be. I scoop my new hatches up in double handfuls when transferring from incubator to the tote they travel to the brooder in and again from the tote to the brooder, have never had one injured yet. If I transferred each chick individually 1) I'd be there all day and 2) the last chicks to be transferred would be cold by the time I got to them. They're resilient little fluffy butts.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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I heard an old farmer say something very similar to this at the feed store. He said hold them up by the head, and let them dangle for a few seconds. The ones that just hang there are pullets, the ones that squirm and fight and try to scratch your fingers off are roos. Well, I tried it on two of my unique-colored chicks this spring. According to this method, the Buff Orpington mix was a pullet, and the Golden Laced Wyandotte mix was a rooster. Seven months later, they're both pullets!

So I guess his method isn't all that accurate...

 

[froggiesheins]

I wonder if it makes a difference if you hold them by the beak or head???

??? Hopefully I will get to test my theory out on the 14 eggs in my bator.

 

[chicken-owner-31]

I just got 30 new bantam cochin and silkie babies and tried the holding the head thing when I started doing inventory. Every last one of them kicked! Hahaha! (

PLEASE let that be wrong....I don't need 30 roos!)

Anyway, my daughter who is in 9th grade and in her high school's FFA learned about sexing from the wings. I told her that I thought that was only certin breeds, but humored her and we wrote down her guesses on each baby. It turned out to be 17 pullets, 13 roos. Which I will take!

I know this is all complete guesses, but it's fun!

 

[froggiesheins]

Man I would kick like crazy too if I were held by the head (hee hee) Try the beak holding one...grasp the beak on the sides and gently lift fuzzy-butt of the ground. I am guessing by way of the physiology of the bodys muscle structure, that doing the beak instead of the head works better.......but you could also just Indulge me....

I am going to try it and record my findings when my fuzzy-butts come out from hiding in those teeny-tiny shells. And you are right tuper, if nothing else it is fun to try and guess......

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[Coopa Cabana]

I thought I'd try feather-sexing my Bantam Cochin chicks last spring - even though I had been told this method is normally only used on fast-feathering chicks, and doesn't work on slow-feathering Cochins.

I was absolutely delighted when I saw, very clearly, two distinct and separate layers on the wing primaries of over half the chicks - just like the video showed. For added measure, these chicks were given the most feminine names I could think of, and the single-layered males given the most masculine names. I was 100% positive I'd proved the nay-sayers wrong.

I was 100% wrong.


But for those of you with fast-feathering breeds, here's the video on how-to feather-sex:

(Note: I would advise being very, very careful when handling those tiny wings!)

 

[froggiesheins]

all us on BYC will keep trying and someone somewhere will figure this out, maybe, someday, the possibilities are endless, maybe rolling dice is the best way??? yet right

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[chicken wild]

cool

 

[deerman]

Feather sexing only works with sex link. cross from fast feathering and slow feathering....just like color sexlink.


All these old tails keep coming up ..time and times again....if they worked don't you think the hatcheries would be using them. No they pay people to vent sex them.



I sell pullet sand, place it on the eggs, get you all pullets.....ONLY 10.00 a lb. 50.00 shipping cost.. guarranteed to work or refund cost of sand, SORRY CAN'T REFUND shipping cost.....

Let see can sex by shape of egg...throw the chicks off of high barn , pullets will live ,cockeral will land like a rock...Place chicks with a rooster if he mates with them pullets , if not cockeral. Day old chicks.....DON'T TRY THESE JUST shows how crazy these crazy sex stories ARE.....

 

[banjoejoe4783]

so ture