Heard an odd thing...

[silkiechicken]

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That method works 100% of the time in feather sexable breeds where the males have been selected as slow feathering and females have been selected as fast feathering. Most hatchery stock has been bred for the sexlinked feathering trait. It probably works 85% of the time if you have some birds with the feather sexable genes, and some birds without. LOL It just tips the average over 50/50.

 

[Justanother Brooke]

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[suzettex5]

I think that if there was a reliable, easy way to tell the sex of a chick, the hatcheries would have figured it out by now and we would all know. I mean, beyond the traits certain breeds were bred to have as chicks to determine sex.

 

[bock]

LOL. A few years back, before I knew much about chickens, I asked the lady at TSC if she could find me a bantam cochin roo. She held a chick by the neck, and when it kicked she said, "that one is definitely a boy!.'' Unfortunately, he did turn out to be a roo, and after a few months of being flogged every time we went into the backyard, he was disbatched.

I guess she just got lucky that day, but I don't buy it.

This year, I ordered one barred rock roo along with my hens. From the start, his wings and tail have been feathering out slower and he has a larger comb.

I am heading down to the feed store on Saturday to pick up some more chicks, so I will see what the people there have to say. It is amazing all the methods people manage to come up with!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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[tinychicky]

welllll, i thought it was obvious.................................if it's wearing lipstick it's a girl!

 

[cabincrazyone]

I heard that if you put an egg under your pillow the night of a full moon, and it's unbroken in the morning it's a roo, and if the egg is broken it was a pullet.

 

[cbrown86]

sawmane1 wrote:

another way to sex is to fan out the wing of a new chick and if the secondaries and primaries are the same length it is a male if the primaries are longer than the secondaries than they are females. But it only work on chicks up to three days old. This trcks works for me about 85% of the time.

I found this:

Feather sexing became possible in 1969 after several years of genetic research by the Tegels Poultry Breeding Company. This method used to determine the sex of newly hatched chicks is only possible if a female from a slow-feathering breed is crossed with a male from a fast-feathering breed. The sex of the chicks produced from this cross can be determined during the first 48 hours after hatching by looking at the primary and secondary feathers located on the chick's wings. The primary feathers will be noticeably longer than the secondary feathers on a female chick. On a male, the primary and secondary feathers are the same length.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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hysterically

 

[cabincrazyone]

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hysterically

I heard that from the Gypsy Man way down at the end of my road.
Then he pointed to the tomb stone at the top of the hill.
It's shadow reached across my face.
He said I'd have thirteen months of bad luck,
there was bound to be some pain.
He said don't do no travelin'
or ride in no machines.
The man gave me a luck charm, it cost me five dollars more.
He said to put some on my pillow
and smear some above my door,
then take a lone vacation
make it thirteen months or more.
Then I knew he was the travel agent
I'd seen the day before.