Feather Sexing List??

[smith2]

Does anyone have a list of breeds or crosses that are feather sexable? I bred my buff roo to my red sex-link hens and got short feathered chicks and long feathered chicks. Could the long feathered chicks be pullets and the short roos?

 

[Promiselandfarm]

If they are even rows then it should be a rooster if they are stagard it should be a girl/pullet. We have done ours this way and so far we have been very very close. There is a link http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/sld006.htm and another http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/sexingchicks.html Hope this helps and the links work

 

[Guitartists]

From what I understand, this only works if one parent is slow feathering and one is fast feathering...... therefore it's NOT a breed thing, but depends on the particular birds used for breeding. And I have heard said that the hatcheries will switch it up from time to time. But I could be wrong

 

[silkiechicken]

There's not really a list per se. You just have to breed a slow feathering male over fast feathering females.