Easy! 98% way to sex chicks.

[Illia]

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Okay, does anyone else here realize this 1) just plain works as well as guessing and 2) even if it does work, it only does on certain comb types. . . Not all chicks are the same. If this were a trick that works, it should only work for V combed birds, as females do indeed naturally have a scoop above the nostrils.

 

[BunnyMomma]

Hi, Bunny here!
I just wanted you to know that this method is not a trick, it is just a simple way to recognize the sex of most chicks, Not All Chicks!

However, it has really worked for me. I have australorps, light brahams, silver laced wyandottes, cochin bantams, mille fleurs, silkies, orpingtons, and RIR's. Used in conjuctions with feather sexing, it helps me to determine the sex of my chicks early. I hope that this helps anyone trying to sex their chicks. For some reason it seems to ruffle a few feathers on the forum!

I would put my sexing method up against any other method. I posted this topic to share my own observations. If you think it's nonsense, then laugh about it and forget about it!

This forum is for people to share information and have a good time learning.

Bunny!

: bun

 

[Raven81]

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i totally agree. we all have our own methods & what works for some may not work for others but who are 'we' to say that if someone elses method didnt work for 'me' the method is totally B.S,......
no offense meant to anyone.

 

[Raven81]

copied from another post i wrote on, same subject.....

i have also heard that temp does play a small role in sex warmer =higher % girls colder =higher % boys. i havnt tried yet but will do a study with whatever i hatch to see if there is some truth to it.
another method i will trial is a pendulum hold it over the chick & it goes in a circle for girls & back & forth for boys. after hearing this method i tried it out on calves ( yes i have a pendulum ive had it for yrs so dug it out to try ) & it went in circles over the girls & back & forth over the boys, also tryed the dogs both girls, yes it went in circles. tryed the cats. 4 in total, circle over the girl back & forth over the boys. i didnt believe as i thought maybe its coz i know what they are before. well i done the then 9 wk old chicks 4 dorkings & 2 SLW i had 2 of the dorkings that i suspected were 1 of each so i tryed the pendulum over all of them & it said i had 3 girls & 1 boy ( but i didnt believe it till yesterday.they are 11 -12 wks now) the SLW were 1 of each. that was a few weeks ago & have lost 1 of each breed. but looking at the dorkings today i have 2 girls & 1 boy. im positive of that as one is getting the roo colors & the other 2 have the brown chest. with the SLW the 1 that is still alive was the 1 that the pendulum said was a girl & ive suspected the same for a while but my mother argues black & blue its a roo but i have nothing to compare it with so the jury is still out on that chick. but to me it was the more girly of the two so when i actually know for a fact like the dorkings i will let u know if the pendulum method was right or not.
but in saying that i dont believe 100% yet i still have some trialing to do on this method just coz it was right for the surviving 3 out of 4 dorkings doesnt mean it was 100% i have eggs under a broody atm due to hatch on the 10th so i will be trying diff methods & keeping a record as to which gave what & eventually what was what but i will be posting the results so if any one has a method they want me to try let me know so i can add it to the list.
sorry if you disagree with me on some of the things ive said but im new & im just trialling methods & recording my findings.....

 

[Connor99]

what you copied is true my incubator sucked realy bad

any ways you are right about the temperator change i got all males now all i hear is crowing all night and day

but i do know about one way u could easly sex chicks of any way

and this is for real try it

hold them by there scruff like a cat holds its baby
males curl up

females hang loose LOL POULTRY ROCK

 

[Connor99]

what you copied is true my incubator sucked realy bad

any ways you are right about the temperator change i got all males now all i hear is crowing all night and day

but i do know about one way u could easly sex chicks of any way

and this is for real try it

hold them by there scruff like a cat holds its baby
males curl up

females hang loose LOL POULTRY ROCK

age sorry

 

[aprilc]

Someone at a feed store said to sex chicks at a few days old by making a V with your fingers and holding the chick by his/her head for just a second or two to see what they do with their legs. If the legs relax and go straight down, it's a pullet, if they go up to the tummy, it's a cockerel. Wouldn't that freak a chick out or worse, hurt them and has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

I just think that if there were such a simple way to accurately sex chicks then the hatcheries wouldn't pay their professionally-trained vent-sexers the high wages that they do. The same thing goes for causing eggs to hatch out a certain sex depending on the temperature of the incubator, if that were true (and it is true for some reptile species) then the hatcheries would only need to adjust their thermostats.

And I think it's unkind-- especially concerning batches of chicks sold at feed stores -- to attempt to sex them by the method described above. There seems to be much scope for mishandling and injury there.

 

[AmySG]

The scientist in me now I want to do a big scientific study and collect my own data. Use ALL methods on a number of chick batches, adding data on temperature and maybe even hormone fluctuation over time. This would take at least a sample size of about 500 chicks and reproducible across at least three studies to have a data set large enough for analysis.......

Of course, afterwards I would be swimming in chickens.....

 

[cochinbill]

I'll have to try that.