help me experiment with sexing

[POC]

I never said it worked.........



....or wasn't strange!

 

[ZykloniaDark-GothikRanchr]

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They do that no matter what I do!! except my xrocks, they ALL try to jump on my arms as soon as I open the brooder!!!

 

[Gindee77]

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Which feathers do you mean?

Would you hold the wing out and look at the pointy end of the row of wing feathers along the bottom of the wing? And how old would a chick have to be to do this? Sorry, I'm new at all this stuff and have no idea how to do this!

Yeah, I want to try them all!! I'm going nuts trying to figure out who's who around here!!

 

[ncgnance]

My sister told me this method, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. She said to pick the biddie up and turn it upside down, with its legs up. If it sticks its legs out, its a rooster. If it draws its legs in, its a pullet. I never tried it.

 

[happyhens]

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I had heard of that as well, and it was 100% accurate with my chicks. Easter Eggers and Black Australorps.
Oh yeah, and to answer your question Gindee77- It is their wing feathers. If you pull their wings out and look at the lengths of the feathers (have you ever clipped a chickens wing? Just pull the wing out the same way as if you were going to clip it) when the feathers first start growing, you can see differences in lengths on them. I wish I had taken pictures! I can't remember for sure how old they were when I tried this, I am thinking about 4-6 days. May not work with silkies or frizzles though...

 

[POC]

From what I understood:
Pull the wing out from the body. The bottom edge of the wing, the flight edge is what you want to look at.

From what I understood.....

 

[Gindee77]

I took a couple pix of my chicks wings. There are definitely two different wing feather edges. I drew a line along the edge to see if this is the place you're talking about. Funny thing is, someone said if it's uneven it's a pullet and if it's even it's a cockerel. All the other tests (granted, they were all old wives tale tests) show just the opposite. Are you guys sure that it isn't that the uneven ones that are male and the even ones female??

The one I think is a male

The one I think is a female

P.S. these are EE chicks at 3 weeks old today.

 

[Featherland]

I observe their behavior. The cockerals tend to stand taller. As they grow they also tend to challenge each other more than just setting pecking order. When they are a couple weeks old I compare combs between the males and females of the same breed. With Silkies when they are a few days old I look at their combs really well. If I see slightly raised bumps they tend to be cockerals and if they are smooth pullets. This is not fool-proof. Silkies are more difficult to sex.

 

[josh]

A guy told me if you hold the chick upside down by its feet and it flapped its wings it was a roo if not it was a female. He was doing this at Rual King. 2 out of the 25 he got flapped thier wings. He said he had done this before with great results.

 

[coltsrox]

i have also wanted to know this some girl told me about if the feathers are all the same lengths then its a hen but if its a roo then all his feathers will be uneven,whatever that means!
lol. the other method i tried doing and it seemed to brutal so i couldn't/wouldn't was hold them by their feet upside down and if they lean up to peck your hand its a roo if they just stay their squakin then their a hen.don't know how much that one works...
then the final one i heard was if you gently squeeze their butts and they should probablly poop when you do so look in their rear ends and they should have a shiny bump if its a roo and no bump is a hen, I really don't know about that one either,hmmmmm.

anyways for my question, all you do is wave a towel/hat over them and if they run in a circle its a hen? and if they run around more its a roo?