Ever hear of "chick flipping" to determine the sex of chicks? Try this

[FisherMOM]

my neighbor did this with about 15 chickens..... it was right. I have tried it with mine.

I thought it was

both or one leg down...hen

both legs up... roo..

 

[babylady4]

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If that is the case then we have one roo, the ? since the legs did not move.

 

[Nicola]

well i just did the test and i know i have deffantly 2 females sex linked and the laveder arucana is appaenttly a girl the blue is a boy as well as the australorp

 

[Nicola]

what is the string test?

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Nooooooo!!!! Bettttyyyyy Nooooooo!!!!

 

[joebryant]

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Why should it have worked on silkies? You said the test was for chickens, not silkies.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

An old farmer told my granddaughter to cup the chick in her hand the way AJ said but he said if the chick kept its legs tight it was a hen and if the chick stuck one leg out it was a rooster. Everyt ime we have new chicks its the first thing she does. It worked for her sizzles she got three pullets and 1 roo. lol

 

[FisherMOM]

well.....all of my stretched out their legs... one had one up and one down.. it was a white one. so we will see in a couple of weeks.

when we tested this out on chicks that you could tell what sex they were...the girls stretched and the boys tucked
farmers tales...hmm

 

[swedishfish]

I learned that if you hold them by the scruff of their neck, almost like a mother dog or cat carries its babies, you can figure out if it's a boy or girl. Girlies will tuck their legs in and not really do a lot of fighting to get free, and boys will kick or stick out their legs. I did this with my chicks last year and I was completely right! So I think that these tricks are pretty good, even if they're not perfect.

 

[lilchik]

Okay...I tried the flip test and got all kinds of confusing responses. Rather than just both legs up, both legs down, or one leg up one leg down I got one leg partially down and the other leg fully down, both legs somewhere in between, etc.

So...I tried the magnet on a string test and got amazing results. The magnet would either go in a definate circle or straight line! I tested all 10 RIR chicks and the results are..................................
8 pullets and 2 cockerels!!!! And one Silkie pullet!

I even tried the magnet test over my head...girl, over the 3 dogs and 2 cats and the results were all correct, 1 boy and 4 girls!

I am trilled. The 8 pullets are the darker red with more wing and tail feathers and the 2 cockerels are lighter with less feathers. They are the gender I thought when picking them out and just what I wanted.

I feel 99% confident in the magnet results, but I guess we will see for sure in the weeks to come!